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One of my silkies recently started acting a little low energy and had a poopy butt. She still walks around and goes into the run from the coop on her own and her color seems fine but it started to worry us. While we were washing the poop from her butt, we saw she has a few worms! We started...

Hello! I have a silkie hen that has pretty much stopped laying...She is not broody and not molting but hasn't laid any eggs in almost a month. It's worth noting that she molted last month so maybe it takes a while to start laying again after that, but my 3 other silkie hens all ended their molt...

One of my silkies is molting a lot. She has lost so many feathers that it looks like a couple of chickens have exploded in the run and coop and you can definitely feel her pin feathers when you pet her. I wasn't expecting her to lay again until after her new feathers have grown in but today I...

I have a hen that's just hanging out in the nest box all day. She'll come down on her own to eat and drink and dust bathe several times a day but always goes back up into the nest box instead of hanging out in the run with the rest of the chickens. I'm wondering if this is normal since it's...

I haven't had chickens for very long so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. My silkie, Ru, who is about 1 year old, has started losing a lot of feathers very fast! Yesterday during treat time, she looked fine though there were a lot of feathers in the coop and then 2 hours later, her...

Hello! I'm new to BYC! I have 4 adorable silkie hens name Ru, Pepper, Goldie, and Snow. We adopted them from a family that was moving away a few months ago. My husband and I are fairly new to the world of chickens. Here arw some pics of our girls:

We have 4 silkie hens and because of the large hawk population where we are, we don't free range them so they stay in the large coop/run that we have them. We've done everything to protect them against predators, including burying hardware cloth under the whole thing to prevent digging...