I live in Los Angeles on the edge of Filipinotown. This wee bantie Rooster is very small and sometimes flies in to visit. Any ideas what he may be? He recently knocked up my black silkie who just hatched 4 little chipmunk colored chicks and one black chick. I am wondering if the chicks can be...
My black Silkie, Ms. Bossylina, just hatched 5 chicks after our local street bantie, a frisky red and gold Serama(?) flew into our yard a few days running. I now have 4 chipmunk colored chicks and one black chick. Is it possible to sex the chicks with this cross? here is papa, he is a tiny...
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In the evening my two silkie chickens come in the chihuahua doggie door and hang out in the kitchen squawking to be put in their box. (these are inner city Los Angelino chickens.)
Bigwig just started laying eggs and when she's going to lay an egg she gets a bit frantic, sometimes coming in the...
she pants and throws her head up so her beak is in the air but sometimes she just pants. I thought maybe chickens were like dogs and she was just cooling down...
She doesn't seem as healthy as my other silkie- scrawnier and less of an appetite.
I'm in downtown los angeles so finding a vet for a...
I've been following the posts about gapeworm and I am worried. My silkie seems always to be panting and throwing her head back. I thought that perhaps she had something wrong genetically. However, many of you suggested a chicken with gapeworm would die soon after contracting the disease. I have...