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I have lost 4 chickens in the last 4 months and I'm hoping this isn't going to continue! I just lost 1 of my silkies this morning! I had several adult chickens that were all over 1 yr old, I do not know if they were vaccinated or not, we had babys in April and kept all 9 babys and the mom (my...

i have recently re homed 2 confirmed Roos and have 1 more to go! Live in the city and no Roos are allowed! Posted this little pretty a while ago and the guess was hen but we all know how silkies can fool us! I just don't get the warm fuzzy feeling from this chick like do from my other hens...

I have a few chickens that I think could be Roos and if they are I have to re home them, the white silkie is 4 months old we were hoping it was a hen and named her Sophia. [/IMG][/IMG] The brownish silkie (don't know what the color is) we named Louise) hoping she's a hen. She is also 4 months...

we have a 1 year old white silkie roo that we need to rehome, we live just inside the city on 2 acres and our property borders state land, our 3 neighbors love or rooster and hearing him crow, unfortunately the police were on a call in our neighborhood and heard him crowing and told us he has to...

I'm terrified I messed up and now my flock of 20 are going to pay for my mistake. I have 3 silkies hens,1 roo and 1 polish/silkie hen and 2 polish that are all a little over one year old, we had 9 babies born at Easter and 4 born about 8 weeks ago. I don't know if my older chicks were...

i have a 9 week old chick who is walking funny, don't know if he/she is sick or injured. I just seperat d it from the rest of the chickens. I picked her up to love on it this morning and when I put it down its legs went out from underneath it, It then had a hard time getting back up. I took...

these are a few of my 10 week old chicks, I know silkies are hard to determine gender, are polish silkie mixed just as hard? I think my white polish/silkie is a roo because of the comb and wattles but not sure, hoping the white silkie is a hen, not a clue about the other 2!

i have a silkie who's been sitting on a nest for almost 21 days and she has had horrible explosive diarrhea and sometimes there's a trace of blood in it! I had been giving her nonfat plain Greek yogurt that she seems to love but it didn't improve. I went to tsc theres a lady that works there...

my sweet little silkie has been setting on 11 eggs now (was 8 she stole the others and I just found them a few days ago, naughty chicken!) went to check on her this a.m. And my other silkie was in there next to her and when I opened the coop door she shreaked like I've never heard before, she...

my silkie hen has been setting on eggs for about 8 days now, ( we have never hatched eggs before so I don't know if this is normal) her little eyes keep getting all boogied shut and I notice a little drainage from her nose. This is the first time we have let her have eggs to hatch she has been...

i have a silkie that went broody so we let her have 4eggs it's been 3 days, checked on her yesterday and to my surprise she has stolen everyone's eggs we are now sitting on 9! Sneaky little mommy hen! I was wondering if anyone has had luck hatching chicks the old fashion way? Any chance...

I have 1 grey silkie that's really broody so we found her sitting on 4 eggs yesterday and decided to just let her keep them. Our other chickens are 1 white silkie roo, 1 black bearded silkie, 1 white laced polish and 1 smooth black silkie (think that's what she's called she has regular chicken...

I think my sweet little silkie Maggie is getting sick! I thought she might be going broody but now think it could be a cold! She's been laying for about 4 weeks, we get an egg almost every day and I noticed a few days ago she's been spending alot of time in her coop and our polish hen who's...

Today found my silkie roo with dried blood on the top of his head, we have 2 silkie hens and 2 polish hens and 1 silkie too. They all seem to get along well so not sure what happened to him! Have hard ware wire buried 2ftdown and 2 ft out all the way around my chickens coop and run and the...

My 2 year old Rhode Island island is loosing feathers, handfuls at a time. Shes in a enclosed coop with a covered run no ther chickens with her but have 6 silkies next to her. Went to feed/water her this a.m. And there are tons of feathers everywhere and I picked her up and she is molting but...

I have 2 new silkies I just brought home and they aren't real pretty like my others and they smell aweful! They would be beautiful if they were clean! I had been giving my other 3 silkies baths regularly until 4 weeks ago when it turned cold here in Michigan! They love it too, I wash them...

We have 3 silkies and live in michigan and I am so worried about keeping them warm, they are 6 months old and I think they quit growing, they are all only a few pounds, tiny little chickens! We have 1 confirmed roo and think the other 2 are hens but no eggs yet. They are family pets and we...

HELP! My Rhode Island is hoarse! Noticed Friday my sweet chicken didnt sound like herself, she's hoarse! She sounds like she's loosing her voice. She has no other symptoms, still laying, eating and her poo seems normal. She seems to have always been a big eater so she has stuff in her crop...

Hello everyone! So glad I found this website and honored to be a new member! We got our first chicken 1 year ago. Her name is Gloria and she's a Rhode Island Red. She wandered into our yard and kept roosting on top off my husbands work truck (a large boom truck) and we checked with neighbors...

We are rather new to the chicken world and we've been patiently waiting to see who's who! We have 4 silkies about 5 months old, I gave them all a bath today and our black silkie Izzy (just loves her bath) when i was all done drying her with the hair dryer and set her down to take her picture...