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  1. ThatCrazyChickenGirl

    Looking for Satins in Northern California

    Hi! I’m looking for a breeder to get healthy Satins (silkie/Cochin) from in Northern California. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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    HELP! Chicken attacked by dog! *update* with pics

    So I think we’re on day 4 now, and her wound looks like this. It seems to be ‘sealing’ up, though no scab yet. She hasn’t been drinking as much as I’d like, and her eating slowed down as well, which concerns me. Any way to encourage her to do both, or do I need to syringe feed? (We have done...
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    HELP! Chicken attacked by dog! *update* with pics

    Also, I’ll pick up some blue Kote to have on hand for when she scabs up.
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    HELP! Chicken attacked by dog! *update* with pics

    Just gave her some egg, and she was absolutely thrilled with it. Ate the entire yolk and picked at the whites. Didn’t notice trembling this time! I’m going to trim back the feathers around the wound this evening and reapply the antibiotic ointment. I assume we should keep the wound moist until...
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    HELP! Chicken attacked by dog! *update* with pics

    She’s still alert, but I can see her trembling faintly. She hasn’t messed with her wounds, she just sits still and chirps when we come near her. We set up a screen around her pen to keep off flies, since we can’t move her indoors. I also put neosporin without pain relief and rinsed her wound...
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    HELP! Chicken attacked by dog! *update* with pics

    Took some pics! She’s very awake and is eating. Haven’t seen her drink since the sip she took last night, but since she’s so alert I’m pretty sure she’s not dehydrated.
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    HELP! Chicken attacked by dog! *update* with pics

    One of our hens was left out of the coop tonight (usually they’re kept in a run, and closed in there at night) and she got attacked by the tenants dogs. I’ll take pics first thing in the morning, but I don’t want to overstress her tonight. Her wounds aren’t very bloody at all, but seem to have...
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    Comb injury - how do I treat this?

    Hi! We have a couple of roosters, each in charge of their own flock with runs separated by a chain link fence. The Roos like to fight through the fence, and I’m used to our silkie/Cochin mix getting small black scans on his comb from being pecked by the other rooster. Those always seemed clean...
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    Help! Stubborn lice on my favorite rooster!

    Short story - we have one rooster who hasn't responded to pesticides well as the rest of the flock, and has a terrible lice infection, as well as scaly leg mites. He's very underweight. How should I treat him? More detail - I've sort of adopted my boyfriend's family flock over the past...
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    Need help on beak trimming

    Yeah, watch what you google. Most commercial farms clip their beaks like that. It prevents them from pecking each other and generally saves the company money, but makes it so they are unable to eat from anything but a pile of pellets. It can also split their beak down the middle, all the way...
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    Need help on beak trimming

    We have to trim the beak of our rooster. It got very overgrown before we realized - he's fine eating out of the feeder, but he can't pick food off a flat surface. Poor thing had almost an inch of overgrowth when we started, now he's down to about 1/2 an inch. No idea why he doesn't keep it down...
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    Chicken Happiness is..........

    I've never seen a chicken swim before! Do they hop in on their own or is it an accidental thing?
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    Chicken Happiness is..........

    Outside days complete with grass baths and weird contortions. Sent these photos to my mother and she immediately called thinking he'd been injured!
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    Our House Pet Chicken

    Oh no! That's so funny. Poor little guy. We introduced him to my parents dog and he did the same thing! He was so curious, but he got too close too fast and got the puff-up-and-peck routine! Hilarious because the dog is about twice the Roo's size, but he ran away so fast and then gave us the...
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    Our House Pet Chicken

    Oh he tried, initially! Especially to me - I'm sure he knows I'm female and my boyfriend's male. He's generally sweeter to me but less interested - he'll always prefer my boyfriends lap to mine if given the choice, but he has shown some aggression to him. Normal rooster behavior (he dances for...
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    Our House Pet Chicken

    I've been wanting to share this story for a while now, and decided what the heck - I'll post it here! I've had two house chickens. One was an injured bird, who we couldn't part with after nursing 'her' back to health - until we found out she was a he! At this point, I had fallen in love with...
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    House Chicken care?

    I have had two house chickens! The first one was an accident, an injured bird we couldn't bear to part with. Hes now outside, as the sole rooster for our hens. The other one is on my lap right now! He's a bantam silkie/Cochin mix. We got him with the intention of keeping him indoors. He wears...
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    Rooster help

    Also, if you really want to know the sex, you can pluck a few feathers and send them in for DNA testing. Company I've used before is "Avian Biotech"
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    Rooster help

    I've also heard of a woman who trains her roosters not to crow by locking them up in a closet at night, and not releasing them until after daybreak. If they crow, they get thrown back in the closet for a while. I'm in the camp that believes that any behavior can be trained. It won't be...
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    Chicken with injured leg

    If you still want to try the vitamins, nutri-drench is carried by many feed stores. They also have a dosage for immediate absorption which is given orally. I've used it with sick chicks and it's very good.
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