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    Introducing chickens in winter?

    Hello everyone. We are down to our last hen unfortunately, her best mate just passed last night. They are three years old and her mate had just gone through a huge molt and the heat we have been experiencing just took her last bit of energy, she didn’t make it thru the night. Anyways, our last...
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    Lethargic Chicken with Dirty bottom

    Hi all. I have 11 month old silkie bantam hen that has all of a sudden had a decline in health. we feed her and her two flock mates a local farm store’s poultry blend and keep their water clean, and then give table scraps every so often. she was laying up until two days ago. she still scratches...
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    Pullet standing with tail downwards

    Hey all!! One of my five month old silkie bantams is acting very strange. She has always been the quieter one of the group in her flock and never really was energetic like some of the others. So today I go back there to check on em after school and she is standing very awkwardly. Her bum/tail...
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    chicken broke neck and died!!

    hello all. it is a solemn day on our backyard homestead as our most beloved and special gal, a bantam blue silkie hen, has suddenly passed. there’s kind of a long backstory, so here it is: she lived on her own for a few months and we added 4 silkie bantam pullets in july. living on her own for...
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    something growing on chicken foot!

    hello all. i have a year and three month old barred rock hen who suddenly has a limp. i picked her up and checked to see what was wrong and she has a black looking growth on her foot. i have attached a picture for reference. she was completely fine all week, not showing any signs. then this...
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    very broody hen won’t be broken!!!

    hello all. i have a year and three month old silkie hen who appears to be broody. she has been once before, in early spring, and keeping her out of her nesting box for a week seemed to fix her. this time, she is much more stubborn. her nesting box is kind of like a dog house style on ground...
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    Silkie throwing up??

    hello! i have a year old silkie hen who just yesterday threw up some clear liquid. She did it again today. We are thinking it’s because two days ago we added some new pullets to her pen and maybe she is eating their chick feed? She layed yesterday if that helps. Has anyone had this before...
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    dark poop?

    Hello all. I have a year old Columbian rock hen, on standard adult feed, water with a splash of apple cider vinegar, and oyster shell calcium who seems to be having runny dark poop. She free ranges almost all day so eats lots of grass and whatever she finds out there, but her bum just gets worse...
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    worms in chicken poop!!!

    hello all. today when i went to free range my girls, my 11 month old dwarf colombian rock hen (never matured, doesn’t lay) was still sitting on the roost in the coop where she sleeps. i picked her up and soon noticed all the feathers near her vent wear soaking wet, vile smelling, and black...
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    chicken acting tired on hot day

    hello all! so we live in southern ontario and it is our first very hot day this year. well anyways, one of my 11 month old columbian rocks is acting very strange today. (for reference, she has dwarfism and doesn’t lay eggs, gets picked on sometimes) when i went to let them out of the run to free...
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    rusty looking legs?!

    hello everyone. i have a 11 month old silkie hen here who appears to have dry skin the colour of rust on her legs. i will insert pictures so you have an idea of what it looks like! does anyone know what this could be? all other hens are fine, she doesn’t live in wet conditions or anything, and...
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    broken nail bleeding

    hello! my columbian has a bit of a nail injury. it appears that she broke half of her “thumb” nail and it was bleeding quite a bit yesterday. i think she might’ve caught it on something while digging in the yard yesterday. anyways, i investigated it further today and it is almost half ripped...
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    Broody hen?

    hello everyone, it’s been a while! so this past week when i went to check the nest boxes for eggs, i noticed my grey silkies down feathers all over her favorite box. i added some diatomaceous earth to it because a month ago we had some mites, so i thought they might still be bothering her...
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    how to prevent mareks in 7 month olds

    hello everyone. tomorrow evening we will be euthanzing Ellie because she cannot walk, is very sick and obviously has Marek’s. None of my hens (5 others) have been vaccinated and i really don’t want them to catch the disease. if anything, what can i do to prevent them from getting it? we are...
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    tired hen

    hello byc! we have 6 hens that are all about 30 ish weeks old and laying. one of our colombians, ellie, has been having a rough winter. first, she caught her comb on a fence while free ranging then healed (she was at the top of the pecking order now she’s probably somewhere at the bottom) then...
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    limping hen

    this morning when i opened the coop door, our boss hens ran right down the ramp as usual, however i noticed one of them didn’t come out like she normally does (Ellie) . i opened the back door of the coop, picked her up off the roost and at the door to go down the ramp when i noticed she was...
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    comb pulling away from head

    so today after school i went outside to free range the gals for an hour. we had a run-in with a hawk a while ago so we supervise them each time we free range them for now by the way. anyways, there were no issues or anything out of the ordinary, so you could imagine the shock when i went back...
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    diy anti-feather pecking spray/balm?

    hello! my girls have been very sassy with each other lately and have been pecking at the smallest 2 out of 6 hens. does anyone have a successful recipe for anti-pecking spray or cream, or know of a brand that makes, it available in Ontario? the only one i seem to find is from the UK:rant help!!!!
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    random blood on neck and head of chicken!

    so today my six chickens were free ranging in the yard for about two and a half hours under my supervision from the kitchen that looks on out to the yard. they had a typical free range, mostly digging under a pine tree and the shrubs. the abnormal thing is, when i went to put them in their run...
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    Hawk attacked Silkie bantam

    hello everyone! this morning as i was sitting at the kitchen table looking out into the backyard i noticed our free ranging silkie wasn’t caught up where the rest of the group was, which is typical for her. she was in the middle of the yard, the others in a currant berry bush. i pointed this out...
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