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One of my Silkies a few weeks ago started to show signs of lethargy and would have her head tight to her body like a ball. Then, she digressed and kept falling over to one side to the point where she now can’t sit up anymore. I thought she was egg bound so I tried to help her that way, but...

Not sure what is wrong with my Silkie. It almost looks like the beak has been chipping off and her nostrils are covered? The skin above her beak looks bad.

My flock has fowl pox and I started my medicine round and I noticed that one of my Silkies must have it bad enough where it’s covering her nostrils or dirt covering her nostrils? She’s black so it’s difficult to see anything. Advise??

I think I need to quarantine one of my Silkies due to a head sore that won’t get better. Do chickens get depressed when they have to be separated from the group? And if so, how long is too long?

How does one bathe a silkie? It’s been raining some here and unlike my other chickens, my Silkies are disgusting. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I read that you can dilute blue dawn soap and then use puppy flea shampoo?

One of my Silkies had what it looked like to be a wart on her cheek. I didn’t keep tabs on it thinking it would go away on its own. But lately it’s gotten worse and it hasn’t seemed to have gotten better. I will not take her to the vet, but every day I’ve been cleaning it with soap and water...

Hi! today I noticed one of my Silkie’s bum area looked a little off. Sometimes with my Silkies when they poop it leaves little residue on the very tip of the fuzzy bum hair (assuming that’s it’s because of all that hair and it doesn't just plop straight down?) but hers had a white mucus coming...

Noticed that there is a growth on one of my Silkie’s nose. I haven’t notice anything else from any of the flock. She seems fine. They do come out and free range for a couple hours a day. I put vetRX on it today 🤷🏼‍♀️ Anyone have a clue to what this could be?

I have three Silkies, two barred rocks, and one sex link. My Silkies never perch on anything. When they go inside the coop to sleep, they’re always huddled together (no matter how hot) on the floor in the corner. While my three others love to find the tallest perch to sleep on. They’re even like...

I had bought 9 Silkie babies on February 27th. Three of which were a week to a few days older than the six others. One of those three was my paint Silkie. The beginning of last month all my roos grew a huge comb, grew steamers, and crowed. My paint (the one in questioning) is the only beardless...

Received this young pullet from a friend. What breed would you say she was?

We had to cull my favorite Silkie today because she couldn’t recover from an impacted crop and other complications from that. I kept reading that it could be caused by tall grass? If that’s the case, wouldn’t everyone who free range have issues with that all the time? My husband doesn’t want to...

I have a Silkie hen that her crop is huge and will not go away over night. I took her to the vet on Friday and they said that the X-ray (yes, I spent way to much for this hen) shows that everything in there looks like it can pass and I need to give her these drops and quarantine her from the...

I just was given a free Silkie hen, but her beak seems really long to me. Can this cause issues with eating? can you trim beaks?

It gets super hot here in Texas and this is my first summer with chickens. I have a little fan inside the coop along with a box fan pointing in their run. My husband is concerned that it will cause fires. Hast anyone experienced an issue with fans? I was wanting the little fan inside to run...

Hi! 👋🏻 My husband and I were discussing our Silkies and a question came up, “what is the most common and the most ‘rarest’ color for Silkies?” And I tried Googling it, but can’t find anything. Do y’all have any idea?

I love reading the idea of fermented feed and the health benefits. I read up on it, but I always have an issue on how to even start. All of DIY tutorials always say to start with “chicken feed”. What exactly is this chicken feed? Can I use the layer pellets from the feed store? Or do I have to...

I believe I read that chickens don’t actually throw up. But I’ve noticed that one of my hens stays still while her head is scrunched up to her body and she does a little bit of a shimmy shake and elongates her neck up. It almost makes it look like she is coughing or throwing up, though she...

I love the idea of selling meat chickens, but I hate the idea of physically killing them (ironic, I know). For y'all that sell chickens for meat, is there a common practice of raising the chickens to their appropriate age and then sending them all off to get butchered and dressed for you? Or do...

Hi, everyone! I have the sweetest Silkie rooster that we call “Big Red” that we love, but can’t keep in the city. At first I put him on Craigslist but I was so afraid that people wanted to eat/fight him. Any takers? Got him as a chick from a local Silkie breeder (DOB 2/14/20) and he’s just so...