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    Canker and serious bleeding any advice

    Hi all My lovely silkie has canker, she’s been on Metronidazole for two weeks and although it’s improved it’s still there , she’s also developed a respiratory infection. We were back at my vets today and my vet suggested we use iodine on the stubborn canker, unfortunately as soon as the vet...
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    Sexing silkies

    Hi all It might be too early too tell but wondered if anybody could help me sex my 3 12 week old silkie chicks, I don’t mind if boys or girls as have set up for both but just intrigued!
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    Chick with sour crop/infection and coccidiosis any advice please

    Hi all I’ve got 4 , 8 week old silkie chicks. Touch wood all had been healthy 5 days ago I let them out in the “big” run and free range supervised. 3 days ago I noticed one was puffed up and bit lethargic by the morning she was puffed up refusing to eat, vets gave me antibiotics. However the...
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    Chick living accommodation

    Hi all hoping you can offer me some advice. My broody hen is hatching 3 eggs, I have a brooder set up for her with a separate run etc. my issue is however I have noticed some glis glis running around, although my brooder run is secure years ago when I had an omlet outside they actually ate...
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    Shocked chickens after fox attack

    Hi I was wondering if anybody could help me as to what to do for my girls. I always let my girls out in the morning and they are with me whilst I sort my other animals out , this morning a fox ran in front of me and grabbed one of my hens. I’m absolutely distraught and devastated I’m paronoid...
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    Can chickens “faint”

    Hi all Hoping for some advice and opinions on one of my silkies. She’s 1.5 years old she has had a very bad issue laying soft shell eggs and has been to the vet because of this. My vet advised her to be on Zolcol D 2ml everyday for 2 weeks then 2ml x2 a week. I’ve mentioned her on here...
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    Respiratory conditions and soft shell eggs

    Hi all I’m very worried about my modern game bird, I’ve got a mycroplasma positive flock. My game bird verity does sometimes flare up when she gets stressed I noticed today her breathing is heavy and she is sneezing (no discharge though) she also laid a soft shelled egg which she never has...
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    Silkie laying soft shell eggs

    Hello I’m hoping you will all be able to share you knowledge with me. One of my young silkies has been laying very soft eggs, she started laying last summer. the eggs have the most thin shell and brown specks (I’ve attached a photo) yesterday the egg came out in bits because the shell is so...
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    What does poo like this mean ?

    Hello I was hoping someone might be able to offer some advice or their opinion. My 3 year old silkie dropping this morning is a bit green and it looks like pellets (although they are soft not solid) . I’m not sure if I need to take her to the vet or if if there is something I should be trying...
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    Tumour or abcess ?

    Hi all I hope you could help me with your opinions and advice on my lovely elderly girl violet. She’s between 10-12 years old, I noticed this morning she had blood coming from her vent, I cleaned her up and when I had a feel inside on the left of her vent is a large mass, it feels like half a...
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    Pendulous crop ? Any advice

    I’ve posted before about my elderly hen violet, she’s had sour crop this week and after a visit to the vet who emptied it has had a thick sludgy dough like crop which will not empty. I think she now has a pendulous crop and quite severe diarrhoea. She is really not doing well and I don’t know...
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    Is my hens diet ok?

    Hi all I recently posted about my really unwell Silkie who I’m not sure is going to pull through, we’re at a loss as to what is wrong but one thing I’m worried about is vitamin deficiency or if I’ve done something wrong with their diet. I wondered if anybody would let me know their thoughts...
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    Chicken wobbly on feet and unable to stand and poorly vet does not know what’s wrong any help ?

    My 9 months old Silkie has been Broodie for the last 3 weeks, I kept taking her out of the coop but she had lost a fair amount of weight. Yesterday was the first day she was not broody. This morning she has come out of the coop unable to stand she keeps tipping backwards on her feet and is...
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    Play sand and impacted crop can it clear on its own?

    I’ve realised I’ve made a really big mistake by using play sand in the Dustbath, I thought it would be safer for the hens but I caught one of my silkies eating the sand. She’s now got an impacted crop I’ve been using olive oil and massage it’s gone down a tiny bit but not massively. She’s touch...
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    Elderly hen and eggs any advice please

    Hi all As always everybody is so helpful here so I’m looking for any advice in regards to my elderly hen. We think violet is about 12 she was 8 when I got her and I’ve had her just over 4 years. I think she is slightly arthritic and she was in the vet last week with sour crop. She hasn’t...
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    Can stress cause sour crop/clear watery poo

    Hi all I’m hoping for some advice, I was away on holiday for 3 days and the night I was not home a fox attempted to get into my run (I’ve never seen a rod in 10 years here and I think a neighbour has been feeding them in the garden) luckily my mum saw and chased it away but watching back on...
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    Advice on bio security and new hens

    Hello I’m sorry if I’m repeating a question but can’t specifically find an answer. I’m getting a few new hens, I’ve had the worst luck in the past after foolishly buying from what I thought was a reputable breeder, the hens had suspected mycroplasma and two of them died and the rest of my...
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    Chicken falling over any ideas?

    My 1 year old Silkie was absolutely fine this morning she was up in the nest box and an hour later when I went to check her she was down but completely unable to stand, it’s like she can’t balance herself she’s wobbling forwards and backwards and falls flat on her face when she tries to walk...
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    Silkie with potential wry beck or neurological issues.

    My 1 year old Silkie today has started star gazing, however she only goes it for about a second or 2 and is eating and drinking but keeps looking up at the sky maybe every couple of minutes. I’m wondering if she has wry neck however she has also started to peck the air and I don’t know if this...
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    Antibiotics and wormers at the same time is this safe ?

    I lost a hen suddenly on Friday with no cause of death yet established. When I first got my silkies within 24 hours I had a mycroplasma outbreak and one died. One was in the vet on Wednesday with laboured breathing, another hen has diarrhoea and laboured breathing and the other is sneezing. My...
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