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Hi everyone! Several days ago I noticed one of my serama girls was limping around and, under closer inspection, discovered that she has bumblefoot in both feet. I've somehow lucked out on the bumblefoot front all these years and have only ever had to deal with one other case (that I caught very...

Hi everyone, This morning I went out to check the chickens and found one of my serama girls dead in the coop. I know that there truly is no way to know how she died without a necropsy, but I am unable to get one right now. The circumstances of her death seem very mysterious to me, so I would...

Recently, I've had some pecking order issues in one of my pens. I figured it would work itself out, but it's been quite a while now, and they are still having issues, so I've decided it's finally time for me to butt in. Just curious for some input on how I can remedy the situation. Here's some...

Hi everyone, I am raising 8 chicks for a friend (until they are coop ready). They are from a local feed store that I have purchased chicks from many times before. The chicks I get there are always very healthy and the staff there is very knowledgable. These chicks are about 5 weeks old now. I...

Hello everyone! In the past two weeks, I have gotten six fairy eggs/fart eggs/etc. from my seramas. There are four hens in this group, all relatively experienced layers, ranging between 1 and 3 years old. All these small eggs have lots of calcium bumps, whereas their normal eggs are very smooth...

Hi everyone, This morning I went to check in my chickens and noticed splatters of blood in my serama coop. Further inspection revealed that my serama rooster, King, had a cut on his thigh, right underneath his wing. The feathers around that area were missing. It seems a thin patch of skin was...

I have five pullets right now, about 2 1/2 months old, of all different breeds. They are in my grow out pen with a couple silkies of around the same age. In that pen, I have a large metal waterer, which I have been using for a couple years with no issues. These five, however, love to sit on the...

I have been raising silkies for over five years, and have never come across a way to sex them before they're 8-12 weeks old. Most hatcheries I know of sell them as straight run, as they can't even by vent sexed. You can buy a DNA test, but that costs money, and takes a while to submit and get...

I have two white bearded silkie cockerels, hatched in mid November. They are both vaccinated for Marek's disease. I purchased them from Bobbi Porto of Indigo Egg as babies, but ended up with a couple more roosters than I need. Neither of them are aggressive. I don't have the permits for shipping...

This afternoon, I went out to check on the chickens. The feeder had gotten jammed, so I gave it a wiggle to let more food out. Several of them came running over to eat. I noticed one of my serama girls (who is about a year old) was trying to eat but kept missing the food with her beak. She just...

I have a 3 1/2 month old silkie cockerel from a nice breeder in Florida. I got him as a chick, and he has been vaccinated for Marek's. He always holds his left wing in a weird position, just slightly higher than it should be. I never knew why and always thought that was just his feathering or...

I have an EE hen who is just about a year old. I've had her since she was a day old chick, and this problem started up about last month. I started noticing that her droppings were very very runny about a month and half ago. I did some research, but decided to see if it would go back to normal...

(Edited title to match the new diagnosis, used to be "Chick having trouble adjusting to leg brace") I had a hatch of several chicks this past weekend. One chick seemed to have a moderate splayed leg from hatch, but I've had chicks in the past who looked like they had splayed leg but just had...

I have an EE hen who is about 11 months old. The other day I noticed that her poop looks extremely runny. I've kept a close eye on her, and she looks healthy otherwise, but all of her poop that I've seen since is still super runny. Then when I went out there this morning, I saw her drinking from...

About a week ago, I decided to make a thread here on BYC that keeps track of my serama journey. I decided to make one for my silkies as well, seeing as they are the breed that brought me into the chicken world. My family has raised chickens for quite some time, but about 5 years ago, I decided...

I've been on the lookout for one or two serama hens recently to expand my serama flock. I breed them, although it is very much a hobby at the moment, so I am looking for some breeding quality birds. I live in Southern Arizona, but would be open to shipping. I am looking for some smooth...

I decided to start this thread as sort of a journal about my journey with keeping seramas. If anyone wants to follow along, that'd be great! I'll start this off with a little background: I got my first seramas in August 2017. Two roosters and two hens. Unfortunately, due partly to predators...

Yesterday, I purchased 6 white silkie chicks from Indigo Egg (Bobbi Porto). They are a month old already, and are scheduled to get here sometime tomorrow (according to the tracking number). I am so excited for them to be here! However, I have only had day old chicks from hatcheries shipped to me...

(I really wasn't sure what forum to post this under, so if you see a better place for it, please let me know!) Over the summer, I had an outbreak of Marek's and lost quite a few birds, mostly young silkie pullets. All the chickens I have now lived through it and showed no symptoms of it at any...

I have a welsummer and an easter egger that I got back in February from the local feed store. They are almost 9 months old now, so they should be laying, correct? I have not gotten any eggs from my welsummer, and only two eggs (several days apart) from my EE back in September. Nothing since. At...