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    Help this poor baby girl.skin attacks her

    5mo old silkie hen..not egg laying yet. Empty crop, but eager to eat. Poop looks ok. The red is from the red Gatorade the owner gave her. She is now in my care as the owner has given up trying. And since we hit her with everything I can think of, I'm turning to help here.. She has a yellowish...
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    What the heck is it..

    I have hatched a ton of baby silkies. Most get to the ugly teenage stage before sold, so i have seen many ugly silkies. But these white faces with dark bodies and odd none specific colors, have me baffled. Anyone know if these are even silkies colors? I know the showgirl has a Partridge head...
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    Silkies for Sale Cape Cod area MA

    I have an abundance of new baby silkies that are all pure breed. All sorts of available colors. 1wk to 6wks old. $20 for each baby (6 available) and $40 for the older ones (14 available). And I have one Black Satin Sizzle Showgirl 8wks old for $50. Pricing is as posted and not negotiating. All...
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    Cross Breeding

    So my sweet little "Ginger" (silver duck wing old english bantam-6mo old) loves my "Clyde" (Sizzle Showgirl 6mo old). I have caught them "together" almost everyday, multipule times for a week now. She just layed her 1st egg yesterday. I'm thinking of incubation. Does anyone have this combo...
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    Legs mites?

    2yr old Partridge Silkie Rooster (about 2lbs). I have did a treatment of Ivermectin 5% cattle pour on (.1ml) on back of neck and repeated 7days later, than again 10 days later as it wasn't fully healed, back in March. I thought it was getting better. After a full coop clean out from winter, the...
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    Administer Fish Mox

    1yr old silkie roo.. About 2lbs. I have Fish Mox 250mg capsules. How do you administer it? Dissolve in water, syringe and force feed, or just how? I know the dosage is 1/4 capsule 2x a day, but I tried to desolve it and most of it stuck to the sides of the dish and when I pull back the syringe...
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    Will hen help eggs hatch

    Hen went Broody, gave her eggs from my incubator. But my incubator sucks and shrink wraps my chicks, so i have to help them out..... Will my hen help these chicks out, if they are shrink wrapped? She has only had them under her for 7days and they are due to hatch tomorrow.
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    Staying in box

    So I have a beautiful 7month old Painted Silkie "Dot" she is laying daily for about 2wks now. She is the only hen, to 2 roos, but my dominate roo, is the only one mounting her, my other roo, hasn't fingured out how to get on her yet, thou he tries often. For 3 days now, she hasn't layed, but is...
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    Scaly leg mites

    Silkies, am I right!! Hiding his nasty fully infested legs, under his full fluffy leg feathers.. I have never had to deal with this yet, but his legs look like cauliflower... Soooooo many chunky think flakey lifted scales, so big, I thought they were his leg feathers. My other silkies seem...
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    Chicks with roo

    I have 2 chicks both 7 wks old and I'm ready to move them out to the coop from the broader.. I have a very sexually active 7month old silkie roo.. He only has one hen at this time. Do I have to worry about him mounting the chicks? The chicks are a EE cross and bout his size, as they are a bigger...
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    He came home with 2 goats

    So our chicken count is up to 36 right now. We have one large 8x10 coop that fits them all well, even in our harsh winter right now, when half stay inside most of the time. Our silkies count for half that 36, and they take up almost no space. We have a spare coop with a covered run, we use it...
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    Hydrohen additive for chicks

    Does anyone have a suggested time frame on when to stop adding this to baby chicks water? I have chicks at 5wks and 1wk and 2wks old...
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    Hatched without a wing

    As title explains, i hatched chicks yesterday from morning. This was my last hatch which I had to really help out of the shell, her foot was over her face in the egg, and missing a wing. As i see all my new babies fluff up and start to walk, this one just kept kicking and spinning in circles...
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    UTI in bunny

    Not sure if anyone on here has experienced bunny knowledge. But i will try as our vet is closed til Tuesday. Meet Amy, 3yr old femal. About 5lbs, will get an exact wieght before giving meds. She has red urine with goo in it. Pees often without control (she is litter box trained, but she is...
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    Corid for healthy chicks

    I have 2 chicks on week 4. And 4 chicks on week 1. I have lost chicks in the past to coccidiosis (we need spell check on here lol).. I do have them on the medicated chick starter with Amprolium. Has anyone seen a benifit to use Corid as an added preventitive? And if so, I'm sure I can check the...
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    Silkie Knowledge Seeking

    I purchased 2 Bantam Silkies as chicks.. I thought this meant "small silkie". Than I purchased other "regular" Silkies.. My Bantams are bigger and have single combs. Verses my regular Silkies with full round pompom heads and almost nothing as a comb. My Bantams have a clear line of vision and...
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    Extra eggs added to incubator

    So here is my delima.. I started my 21 day incubator with 10 eggs.. No biggie. My husbend than went and purchased 10 more eggs, and added them, 7 days into the 1st batches incubation process. So now I have one incubator with 2 differnt hatch dates. On day 18, the incubator with stop turning the...
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    My biopsy (photos are graphic)

    Justcas a reminder, I posted a real life deceased chicken.. Don't continue, if your squemish. 6 month old, Polish Crested, "Tina Turner". I did my monthly health checks this week and although Tina was acting as normal as her coop mates when I let them out every morning, I entered the coop on...
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    Mouth breathing, and limping

    6months old. Buff Polish Crested hen. Dolly has been mouth breathing, started with sneezing a week ago, but stopped sneezing this week, but is now struggling to grab a breath about 5 days now. No runny eyes, no weezing, no runny nose. Very clear breaths. I have checked her throat for worms n...
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    After Bumblefoot recovery

    9 month old gold laced wyandotte. 6 days ago, treated for Bumblefoot. She has been isolated in a dry clean environment with her bandages changed every 2 days. Here are her feet as of bandage change today (pic shown) I was hoping with a sunny day today, I could let her back outside with her...
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