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She is very tame, and when I saw lady with her, I picked her up, snuggled her in my arm and took her to the barn, placed her in a big plastic box, put a screen over the top and added food and water for her. Can't afford to take her to the vet, but am worried about that big gash between her...

This has been the craziest thing. First the gray Silkie started setting on 8 or 9 eggs on the 25th of October. That number of eggs kept growing every day - the other Silkie hen was laying her eggs next to the broody #1 (gray), and I guess she just moved the eggs under herself after the black...

Should I put an incandescent light bulb in with the mom and babies full time for warmth or will momma be enough? It is getting down into the high 30's at night some nights this week.

I have about 18 hens and 1 rooster. My littlest one, a little silkie, is sitting on 5 eggs and should become a momma in about a week. She is the most timid of the chickens and lowest on the pecking order, so I've had to put a board over the entrance to her little nesting area so low she can...

My big 15 hens are a about 1-1/2 years old. I now have 7 new chicks who are now fully feathered (the 3 silkies were born in mid-April, the 4 were born May 3rd), and living in a temporary little coop right up against the other chicken coop. Once they get a little bit bigger (how much older...

Thanks all. Your kind words and advice make me a lot less frantic. I put here in her own pen again this evening, and blocked her escape hole and gave her more chick starter. She keeps spilling it, so the advice of adding warm water is really helpful. She, like all my hens are really...

There was blood all over the hen house, but it had quit bleeding before I discovered it. I looked at her and discovered her top beak is broken off about 1/4". I took her away from the other birds yesterday (no one seems to be picking on her thankfully) and fed her chick starter because she...