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We've been doing the above since last Monday, so well over a week now. We've also been hand feeding her both regular chicken feed and sunflower seeds. She's been taking in calcium and water, and we have seen her eat out of the feeders. However, while she's not getting worse, some days seem...

Should I be doing all three? I have poultry nutri drench. Should I still get vitamin e capsules and polyvisol? I know there's such a thing as too much.

In the several years I've had silkies, this is the first time I've dealt with wry neck. We noticed it yesterday. Penny is still full of energy and we've been hand feeding her today and giving her plenty of water, but I've been reading about treatments and I'm so confused. What dosage of vitamin...

I am looking for one to three silkie pullets in red, buff, paint, partridge, or splash. I have been on Craigslist daily for a year, and none of my local breeders will sell me just pullets. All require that I take a rooster as well. Unfortunately for me, I've already been forced to re-home my...

She has an appointment with the vet Wednesday. The floor of the run and the floor of the coop are covered in aspen shavings, and she and her flock mate do not roost. They sleep in a huddle, and the coop floor is leftover vinyl from my kitchen. Also, the ramp is not rough. She is not limping...

My white Silkie hen has managed to get bumblefoot on both her feet. I'm quite offended by it; I try my hardest to keep her coop and run super clean and free of materials that can cause injuries, but...it's clear as day. I know everyone says you can treat it yourself, but honestly, the thought...

Finally have an official diagnosis for the foot issue. Moonie was starting to get better, and then started dragging her same foot behind her one day. We kept trying to get her to the vet and the snow kept preventing that. We just got home. My girl has a broken hip! She is bandaged and...

The ramp could be too steep for her. Right now, we don't have her using it. It doesn't have cleats on it; instead, we put down two strips of black tape with the texture of sandpaper, because the other two girls preferred it. We were planning on adding cleats in the spring, once it's warm...

Okay, I feel like I've been posting a million questions lately, but I have more, so I'm gonna throw them both in here and see what advice comes from it. One. Will blueberries make my Silkie girls' poop darker than normal? I gave them a handful yesterday and today, there's poop in the coop...

They do! That was how we handled the last girl's broodiness, and she set to death. This one is funny because I usually move her to the doorway of the coop so I can take her flock mate's egg from her, and she typically gets up on her own within the minute and heads outside to play - and she...

Thanks. Little piggy is definitely eating!

So, this is fun. One of my Silkie girls is broody. After losing a hen to broody stress, we decided it would be best to handle Banjo's broodiness differently. We've been locking the girls out of the coop during the daylight (they have food and water in their predator-proof run), and Banjo has...

HELP! I have a very small flock right now. We just formally introduced our newest girl, Moonshine, to her flockmates, Banjo and Number Nine on Sunday. When I got Moonie, I was told she was a year old and laying. She's much smaller than my other two, who are less than a year old. Both of those...

I just went out to let my girls out of the coop, and I noticed when I went to collect eggs (one sad, pathetic egg so far), I noticed the egg shell had blood on it. Not a lot, but enough that I noticed it as soon as I opened the door to the nesting boxes. Should I be concerned? The girls seem...

I have a "new girl." I've had her in isolation since November, because she was in quarantine, and then once we were able to take her out of quarantine, my alpha hen went broody & then became very ill, and I didn't want to introduce her to the flock without the alpha. As it turns out, my alpha...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! I really appreciate it.

we just got off the phone with the vet. she couldn't find any smoking gun. Frankie's reproductive tract was inactive, but healthy. the vet asked if the other birds had any diarrhea, which they dont - they seem very happy and healthy - and that steered her away from her thought of bacteria...

Thanks for all the support, everyone. Unfortunately, we lost sweet Frankie girl around 4 this afternoon. I was with her. I just got home from dropping her off at the vet to have a necropsy done. Pretty heartbroken.

Unfortunately, my sweet girl took a pretty sharp turn for the worse last night. She's gotten just as, if not weaker, than she was, and now she's refusing food and water almost entirely. She has another vet visit tomorrow, but I don't know she'll make it that long. I'm pretty devastated - she...

She's in a large pet carrier with shavings in the basement (which is nice and toasty warm) now, and she does have some water and crumbles, should she be tempted to eat or drink. I did wrap her in an old beach towel and my father and I took a half hour to try to syringe-feed her, and she did...