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    Our Silkie keeping eyes closed

    Hi everyone, The last few days, our silkie, Suzie, started keeping her right eye closed. We were monitoring her, and she seemed healthy otherwise, but she was being bullied by another chicken so we thought she may have injured it somehow, perhaps by getting pecked. Examination didn't show any...
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    double whammy

    2 of my chickens have become sickly looking. The first is a brown silkie. She lost the feathers on her head a few months ago and seems a bit ruffled. I thought she was molting, but it hasn't gotten any better. She was laying up until 2 weeks ago. Today she started to squeak when we go near...
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    Help....Changed food. Losing Feathers & stopped laying.

    Help., I was unable to get the same food as normal and my 2 RIRs have not been eating. This has been going on for just over a week. Egg laying stopped and now they are starting to lose feathers. I tried to supplement with vegetables and other seeds, etc, and they seem to eat it, but not sure...
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    Blood spots...I think

    Hello all, I have 2 RIRs that I recently purchased (about 6 weeks ago). I was told they were around a year old. The kids love them. Their egg laying was sketchy at first, i.e. about an egg every 2-3 days and the shells were very thin, so I added Oyster Shell to the diet and the shells...
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    New chickens - :-)

    Hello everyone, I have been reading posts to the forum for quite some time and we have recently added 2 new additions to the family. We have 2 Rhode Islands in our coop and very excited about it. Eggs everyday I wanted to say hello to everyone and many thanks for so many great posts and all...
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