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    Chick with digestive blockage

    I've got a problem with a chick just shy of 2 weeks that's broody raised. I've dealt with sour crop and crop impaction with hens, but this is new to me. Yesterday evening I noticed she wasn't keeping up with the others and her crop is huge, squishy, half filled water balloon sort of thing, and...
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    Sexing Silkies! Please help! (Pic Heavy)

    I've got four lovely silkies that have just hit 22wks. One I am positive is male, he's had the big walnut comb, floppy wattles, and obvious streamers for a while now. One I am 99.9% is female, dainty, right shape, no comb whatsoever, no signs of maleness about her at all. The other two I was...
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    Question for those of you with Midnight Majesties and Blue Azures

    Had a complete flock massacre a while back, where I lost mostly heritage breeds, heritage crosses, silkies, and a few production reds and golden comets, leavingme with a single red, a single comet and a lone silkie. I recently picked up a few already laying Midnight Majesty Marans and Blue...
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    Traumatized by Raccoons

    I took the family out for the first time in two years, and came home to an absolute slaughter. 12 of my 16 hens plus my rooster and 5 out of 6 silkie chicks are missing their heads. One chicken is just gone. I've lost the occasional bird to predation over the years, but never a total flock...
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    Beards are awesome!

    Opal's (previously known as Muffy) beard is coming along beautifully! Mopsy, my darling silkie hen, is over mothering her poor single chick. The little thing is over 6 weeks and desperately wants to run and be a chicken with the chicks that are two weeks older, but mom won't let her! Mopsy...
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    Squatting Cockerel

    What are the chances of a sex linked cuckoo silkie cockerel being a pullet instead? His mother was cuckoo, his father black. Does anyone have a rooster or cockerel that squatted? Do I not count on this little guy to be able to do the deed? This little boy is a wonderful little thing, always...
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    Feather Cyst or What?

    (Why is it always 2am when I manage to get things posted?) I picked up one of my hens to do a general check on her feet and such and encountered some pretty freaky strange growths on her side, just above where her leg meets her body. Kitty is one of my more standoffish hens, so it may have been...
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    So hard to decide who to keep!

    I'm always doing winded, sorry :oops: So, I grabbed a few BR babies a few weeks ago, but I don't specifically know what I'm looking for when it comes to a nice looking BR... other than to know their parents were stunning examples of large, curious, bright eyed poultry. They were 6 weeks when I...
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    Silkie colour clarification + other questions!

    So, this itty bitty just hatched yesterday, unsure of parentage, but it's either out of a black silkie hen, or a hamburg x black silkie hen and a white silkie roo or cuckoo silkie roo. I'm new to this silkie chick thing, so I'm wondering what colour this little one is... is this a grey? A...
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    Pullet with sickle feathers?

    All this talk of intersex chicks has me worried! I'm still trying to grab a decent picture of her neck and some side pics, but I'm getting a bit concerned so I thought I'd post and ask and then head back down to the coop to see if I can do better. One of my EE chicks (almost 18 weeks) has grown...
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    Yellow beak on black skinned Silkie Chick?

    Can someone please explain what's going on here? I saw the parents myself, all black skinned, black/slate beaks, but I've got this wee thing with a yellow beak! Also, would this chick be cuckoo? I know mom was cuckoo, dad was black with silver leakage... (I think, didn't see any barring on him...
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    Just cuz Chicks are Cute! (Silkies)

    This little one hatched last night, hopefully by tomorrow I'll be able to add pictures of a sibling or two! Mom is a black silkie with lots of gold leakage on her neck (not the little broodie in the pic) and dad is a white silkie, no idea what their background breeding is. The little dark spots...
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    Double Broody Dilemma!

    I've got a pair of broodies in the coop at the moment that I didn't have the heart to cage and break while it's so cold, since everyone is hunkered down in the coop in any case during this lovely weather. Unfortunately its day 19 for both of them, and one has gotten off her nest to snuggle in...
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    Ugh... Frozen Exploded Eggs

    So... it's been somewhat chillier over the past week, and I've been behind schedule collecting my eggs during the day. Did you know.... at -25c/-13f eggs freeze, expand and the shell cracks to let that sticky messy egg slushy goo gather in your nest boxes if your not prompt at retrieving them...
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    Isbar x Hamburg?

    If I crossed Isbars and Hamburgs, would it be possible to get a blue/green layer that looks like a Hamburg? If so, do you think it would be possible in the first pairing or after several generations?
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    My Hamburg Enlargement project has a start date!

    I'm so excited to get a start on this! And this isn't for anything more serious than my own enjoyment and hopefully end up with my perfect barnyard mutt! :celebrate I brought this up before to get a few opinions on how to supersize my favorite breed, the Silver Laced Hamburgs, and increase the...
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    Bullseye?

    Would this egg be fertile or not? Is this the bullseye I'm looking for?
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    Ladies & Gents, weigh in on my 6wk Girls & Boys

    I'm stumped! These combs are giving me a hard time. 6 weeks plus 3 or four days, EEs to the best of my knowledge. A lady I got the eggs from said she let her lavender EE run with her Ameraucana, dark brahmas, maran and double laced barnevelder hens hoping to introduce some lavender into her...
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    Ivermectin Oral Paste vs Oral liquid for Poultry Lice

    We had a silkie come to us with some MAJOR lice issues. More feathers under her chin and behind her ears were more covered in eggs than not, the poor thing. Lucky it was a very quick discovery and she hasnt made it near our coop, and I've been diligent about keeping her care until after I see my...
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    Wheaten chick? Maybe? Possibly?

    I didn't get my brahma chick, so I've started dreaming wheaten amerucana, or better yet... blue wheaten... but I've never had a wheaten bird, so I don't know if I'm fooling myself with the comparison I've done through google pics, honestly, so I'm looking for a bit of help from you experts...
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