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My Silkie rooster (“Poof daddy”) has fallen ill again for some reason!
The flock just recovered for coccidiosis. Poof daddy was hit hard and was in the chicken hospital (our house) for 4 days. He made a recovery.
Two days ago I noticed him being lethargic and hunched over again...
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I have four eggs under my Silkie naked neck hen. I have her in the laying box and put a separating wall away from the rest of the flock. She hatched one yesterday and I moved the chick to a brooder box inside. Now she has hatched two more, so one more egg to hatch.
I have read that...
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My Silkie 2yr old rooster has been very lethargic this morning. I treated the flock with amperol these past 5 days, but found out my hen who was sick actually had a prolapsed vent and I think coccidiosis wasn’t the problem. I changed out the water to regular and added nutridense to it...
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My year old laying Silkie hen expelled a large blood clot yesterday so I started the whole flock on Amperol for possible coccidiosis.
This morning, it appears the hen had pushed out her bowel? Does this look like a prolapse and should I gently push it back in??
Please help. Does this appear to be coccidiosis??
I seperated the infected chicken from the flock, she doesn’t have any other symptoms other than pooping this long jelly blood clot. After this she pooped white diarrhea.
I changed all of the waterers and added a drop of vitamin chicken liquid...
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I recently purchased food-grade DE for mite infestation of my silkies after doing research online. I sprinkled it under their wings a few weeks ago and put it around the coop after deep-cleaning and noticed good results around those feathers. However, it seems the mites travelled up...
Can anyone tell me how many millimetres of water 100 ml is from the bottom? I keep topping it up but not sure if it is going more or less than 100ml. I don’t have a humidity reader. Two chicks have already hatched and are cozy in the incubator with more on the way and I want to make sure the...