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  1. SilkieLover01

    The chickens have taken over my garage and I'm at my wits end--Advice wanted on damage control/odor

    I have two coops. One for normal chickens, one for the silkies. I breed lavender silkies and show, so I can't have just like 4 chickens. I live on an acre and a quarter, I think two coops is about my maximum for buildings
  2. SilkieLover01

    The chickens have taken over my garage and I'm at my wits end--Advice wanted on damage control/odor

    I have a shed, but there's wildlife that constantly wants in (currently dealing with a badger being under it), and it gets really hot in there during the summer and really cold in the winter, with no power supply. I've considered moving them out there before but I think they would just melt
  3. SilkieLover01

    The chickens have taken over my garage and I'm at my wits end--Advice wanted on damage control/odor

    I live in a brick ranch with a 2 car garage under it, as well as a full basement. The chicken addiction has gotten...Intense...since I moved into my house a couple years ago, and for the better part of two years, there's always been at least one playpen of grow out chicks in the garage. I didn't...
  4. SilkieLover01

    Pullet with bad eye? I need suggestions?

    I should also mention it's Tylan50 i've been giving her, but it's REALLY OLD. Like a 4 year old bottle, hidden away in a dark cabinet I just re discovered. Would that potentially be why it's not working? Also, I know I saw it at tractor supply years ago, i dont see it there now?
  5. SilkieLover01

    Pullet with bad eye? I need suggestions?

    Hey everyone, After a long hiatus due to school, I got back into chickens last week. I acquired two 4-5 month old pullets from a guy with a bunch of chickens, who looked healthy and has sold many chickens to other people. Anyways, I didn't see pullet #1 up close and personal before she was...
  6. SilkieLover01

    Is this egg dead?

    They went in last Tuesday night, so i'd say we're on day 6? Headed into day 7? and i have a turner in there.
  7. SilkieLover01

    Is this egg dead?

    Trader joes eggs, went in the incubator last Tuesday night. They have a Julian date of 53 so I think they were processed February 22nd. Temperature has been normal but humidity...umm..I forgot. I candled this morning. Is this dead? It would be day 6-7 right?
  8. SilkieLover01

    The incubator does whatever it wants--Are they toast?

    I'm desperately trying to hatch some Trader Joe's fertile eggs in the forced air little giant incubator from %#%^%. Stuck them in there Wednesday morning. Temp had been holding steady at 100 for week beforehand. Put them in there, came back the next morning and discovered it was 84 degrees...
  9. SilkieLover01

    Dry incubation? Not adding water to the incubator?

    Hey everyone, Back when I learned how to do this, I was taught you needed to add water to the incubator in those little grooves in the bottom of the incubator. I read something this spring about not adding water, so figured I'd try it. Does anyone do dry incubation? Humidity here where I'm...
  10. SilkieLover01

    My worst incubation experience ever? Should I just assume they're all dead?

    UPDATE: I am proud to report that yesterday was day 21 (for most of the eggs) and that homegrown egg--the egg that was alive and well when I candled a couple weeks ago--hatched
  11. SilkieLover01

    Is this chick a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte?

    I really have been wanting some BLRW's, and at the feed store yesterday these were the "assorted bantam" bin. I have no idea what hatchery they use or this would be easier. Did I wishful think and bring home a Cornish or OEG? What do you people think he is?
  12. SilkieLover01

    Using rubbermaid tubs as brooders?

    Question everybody--what do you find best to use as brooders that's a low risk of catching fire? I use to use metal tubs (which I'm not a huge fan of) and rubbermaid tubs back in the day. I haven't had chicks in years though. After surviving an arson last year, I'm very hyperaware of anything...
  13. SilkieLover01

    My worst incubation experience ever? Should I just assume they're all dead?

    I feel a lot better about my failure now. Mine is apparently a 10200 model? What do you know about that one? This is the only one carried by CAL Ranch, TSC or the feedstore here. Except for this farm innovators or something or other one? Anyone ever heard of/used that one? Meanwhile the fun...
  14. SilkieLover01

    My worst incubation experience ever? Should I just assume they're all dead?

    Back when I was 12-17, I had a still air incubator that I converted with the forced air kit and I was like the incubation czar. Then, I stopped. And this month, I attempted to incubate for the first time since, in a little giant forced air I'd never used, but got in high school, with a turner I...
  15. SilkieLover01

    DYING SILKIE: Please help I don't want to lose her!

    Just asked the kids if they've seen anything "off" with Lucy. The 14 year old shrugs, "yeah she's seemed tired for like 2 days. No big deal." Im really angry now. I work all day. When im watering and feeding is at night or in the morning, when everybody is still cuddling and sleeping. They're...
  16. SilkieLover01

    DYING SILKIE: Please help I don't want to lose her!

    Would pedialyte mixed with raw egg do anything? Or nothing more than the electrolytes have done?
  17. SilkieLover01

    DYING SILKIE: Please help I don't want to lose her!

    Just to be sure I called the only vet clinic that's still open. Quote "no we don't treat farm animals. The only thing we can do is euthanize her." Yeah. So helpful.
  18. SilkieLover01

    DYING SILKIE: Please help I don't want to lose her!

    Vet isn't an option at this point--it's a small town and NO ONE does chickens. They'd look at me strangely and do nothing but take my exam fee. It's also after 8 pm. I use to work for the only clinic that's open this late at night, and they certainly don't do dying birds. Egg binding is an...
  19. SilkieLover01

    DYING SILKIE: Please help I don't want to lose her!

    I have a silkie hen who I got at a poultry swap last fall. I've moved, shipped her across the country in a shipping carton in January, and she and my other hen have been through too much to lose her now. She was fine that I could tell yesterday. The kids cleaned the coop and took waterers out...
  20. SilkieLover01

    Sudden cold weather deaths? HELP!

    Only thing I CAN think of..I haven't dewormed them. All 6 of them came--as adults or semi-adults--the EE was about 3 months old and the youngest when I got her--from different places. Could internal parasites be the causation here? And if so, how come she was fine all of September and October...
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