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    How to Deworm in Canada

    Hello! I’ve never dewormed my flocked, so I’m looking for my best options since I live in Canada and I know a lot of chicken medications are not available without a veterinary prescription. Wondering if any fellow Canadians know of a product I can get here in Canada without seeing a vet. Thanks!
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    Silkie can’t stand up properly

    I have a 1.5 year old Silkie hen (Yolko) who is no longer able to stand. She is crouching with one leg completely in front of her and when I lift her, the leg is limp. I can touch and squeeze her entire leg and no reaction. It’s almost as if the leg is just completely dead. I noticed she has...
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    Chronic Diarrhea? *POOP PIC WARNING*

    I have a hen who hatched from my Easter egger rooster/ hen about a year ago. She has had chronic diarrhea for as long as I can remember. She is seemingly healthy otherwise. She did lose her feet to frostbite last year when she was 3.5 months old which delayed her growth quite a bit but she does...
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    Any experience with salmonella?

    I lost my Silkie rooster after a short battle with a respiratory infection this week. The vet did a necropsy and believes he found evidence of salmonella but they are doing a test to make sure. I have a flock of 14 other chickens who I love dearly, they are more than livestock to me, they are...
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    Easter egger cockerel or pullet?

    I have some 2.5 month old olive eggers here, but one of them is throwing me through a loop. She’s much more pullet-like than her brothers which are clearly roosters, but she has a brighter comb and waddles than my other pullets of the same age but perhaps that’s just her. Can anyone tell me if...
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    Best medications to have in your pantry??

    Hi there! I’m from a small town in rural Ontario, but I’m making a trip to the USA in a couple weeks on a vacation. Whenever I have a mild chicken emergency or illness in my flock, I post it here and get lots of replies, thankfully! Unfortunately, the majority of treatments I’m told about are...
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    Can’t get rid of lice!!!

    I have a 1 year old Silkie rooster who came to us with scaly leg mites and lice. He is absolutely INFESTED! I’ve put out diatomaceous earth for him and the others, I’ve also bathed him in my sink countless time with flea shampoo to no avail. None of my other chickens have lice (or at least not...
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    How to treat mould/fungus in nostrils

    a couple of my hens have developed black nostrils and are sneezing. I’m assuming it is mould due to dust or moisture. I’m renovating the coop and will definitely be taking this into consideration. In the meantime, how do I treat this? I have antibiotics from the vet that I got when my rooster...
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    Silkie chick with noticeable wattles?

    I have a month old Silkie chick who has enormous wattles compared to my other silkies from the same hatch. Wondering if this is normal or perhaps a glimpse into what this chick’s sex might be? These are my first Silkie chicks, my other silkies I got as cockerels/pullets. Here are some pictures...
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    Seemingly healthy pullet but showing strange symptoms

    I have a 6 month old pullet with a strange backstory. So she hatched from my two Easter Eggers and was always quite small for her age. When she was 3.5 months old, her feet got severe frost bite and she lost all her toes. She has lived in our house since but has been showing weird symptoms since...
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    Pullet with strange symptoms, seemingly healthy

    I have a 6 month old pullet with a strange backstory. So she hatched from my two Easter Eggers and was always quite small for her age. When she was 3.5 months old, her feet got severe frost bite and she lost all her toes. She has lived in our house since but has been showing weird symptoms since...
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    Inconsistent temps for the first 3 days... still hatchable?

    I recently made my own incubator and I currently have 12 fertile eggs sitting in it. The first 3/4 days I couldn’t quite get the gauges perfect. The temperature was always between 35-40 and the humidity was around 30-40 percent. It is now stabilized at 37 degrees and 50 percent humidity. I can...
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    Silkie Pullet laid a bloody egg?

    I have a Silkie who started laying about 2 months ago and today I found this bloody egg. She’s completely healthy and eating and drinking fine, no bloody stool whatsoever, just on the egg. Obviously it’s not a significant amount of blood but just checking if this is normal or not? I want to get...
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    Has anyone seen this eye issue before??

    my year old hen is acting completely normal but has this eye issue. Any guesses/ remedies?
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    Any gender guesses??

    these are two of my two month old chicks, wondering if there is any input yet? Just curious. No crowing yet but they’ve started making an awful lot of noise!
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    9 week old lethargic chick

    I have a chick that I hatched about 9 weeks ago who has just always acted lethargic. She/he had sour crop early on that was treated, and most of my flock got a respiratory infection a couple weeks ago that they were all treated for and recovered from. Through it all and even before and...
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    Is my Silkie crowing??

    She was sold to me as a hen but she recently started doing this... is this crowing or is this a normal hen sound? This is my first Silkie so they are new to me!
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    Will my chickens adjust to a new coop?

    We currently have a small flock of 7 free range chickens who are very much in a routine of exiting their coop when the sun rises, foraging all day, and returning to their coop for night. We are now in the process of renovating our garage into a new, larger, more weather- and predator-proof coop...
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    Interesting looking chick...

    Hi there! I have a 5 week old chick (I believe to be a pullet) named Maggie with an interesting colour pattern. Would this be considered silver laced? Her mother is an EE and father is Americauna, I got them both as day-olds so I don’t know much about their lineage. I’ve included photos of...
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    New Silkie with clumpy beard

    Hi there, I just purchased a Silkie pullet from a local farm. She had pretty bad lice when we got her and I’ve been treating that, but she has also has clumps in her beard? I’ve only read about lice nests near the vent, but is that what these are? Do I need to cut them off or will flea bath...
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