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    5 week old silkies eating pine shavings

    How young should you start them on grit? And any suggestions on what type? I have them on manna pro medicated feed, but I hadn't started them with any grit yet. I had read that for the first month or so they wouldn't need it, but to add oyster shells (or any form of grit) around 2 months or once...
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    5 week old silkies eating pine shavings

    I have two Silkies, 5 weeks old tomorrow. They have just been switched off of paper towels about a week ago, and now they are scratching (which I expected) but now they are taking a liking to the pine shavings. There are only 2 in this brooder with a water and food dish, plenty big enough for...
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    Help! Baby silkies with wry neck!

    Thank you so much for your replies! On top of the Save-A-chick, everyone was also fed egg whites for the first couple of days, especially upon arrival. Knowing that eggs contain selenium makes me feel a bit more at ease. I hope the symptoms weren't trauma related, but I know it's a big...
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    Help! Baby silkies with wry neck!

    Thank you! It was definitely rough. I know to expect some things to happen, but I was not expecting that. It all happened so quickly and I felt so helpless. I do have poultry nutri-drench in my arsenal. I tried to give the little one a drop yesterday, but it was unable to take it due to how...
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    Help! Baby silkies with wry neck!

    Just to update my post, it didn't make it. The onset was just a couple of hours. Can stargazing/wry neck kill that quickly, or was it an injury?
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    Help! Baby silkies with wry neck!

    We just got in a batch of newly hatched silkies August 9th. Now one of them has wry neck. He/she had been absolutely fine for the first two days and fine for most of the day today. We just went down to check on them in the brooder and this little one was laying there, neck bent backwards with...
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