I have one hen that has an odd ‘growth’ on her face. It’s been there since last fall but is slowly increasing in size. It looks like some of the pics I’ve seen of fowl pox, but it’s only 1 lesion and has had such slow growth that I don’t think that it could be. No other symptoms and the lesion...
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I have no idea how I didn’t notice this little ones toe when she was a little chick. By the time I saw it, she was about 12 weeks, but didn’t seem to be causing any problems or lameness and it was past the point of an easy chick-shoe solution. Fast forward to today, at...
My son recently got a trio of young Seramas for 4H. The feathers on the smallest pullet (same age but half the size of the other hen) always appears ruffled. They don’t obviously curl outward but they certainly don’t lay flat. She doesn’t appear to have any health problems.
I raise a large...
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I have an issue with a little Silkie chick that is about a week old. It has seemed weak and lethargic since hatch and still hasn’t really improved.
Symptoms:
- vent is protruding slightly
- appears to have difficulty swallowing when given fluids from a dropper
- does not...
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Just had a Silkie hen euthanized today. I’m unsure of her age as she was a rescue that looked very rough when we got her 6 months ago, but I had been told that she just started laying... Anyway, a little over a week ago when letting the chickens out of the coop in the...
Lots of chickens here but this is my first batch of turkeys, so it’s a bit of a learning curve . Out of the 5 four week old poults I’ve recently acquired only one breathes like this. It’s little chin and sinus areas move with each breath. Eating and drinking well, doesn’t appear otherwise ill...
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I have a little bantam Silkie hen that has been sitting diligently on a small clutch. She had been getting up daily. Her eggs are now hatched but she is sitting with her legs straight out to the sides like she’s doing the splits. If I pick her up and help her stand, she can...
I have one girl who just started laying, she is in the house still after recovering from a dog attack a couple months ago and not climatized to the cold winter weather. She will not lay an egg if there is still one in her nest box. And they are her own! She works diligently to roll them out of...
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This is my first post here, but I'm hoping that someone may be able to point me in the right direction or give me some insight...
I have a Silkie bantam Rooster (the most cuddly, loving little guy) that is about 7 months old. In the last month, he's had a hard bony feeling...