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I have been told that chickens over 8 months old will not get mareks...... Is this true? I have a 5 month old chicken that can't use her right leg. It just lags behind her. It hasn't improved in the last 4 days and I do have her isolated from the others. If this is Mereks, how long do they...

Is this bumble foot? I know everyone says there is a black scab but our roosters foot is black. He wasn't able to walk today, we soaked his foot in epsom salts and now this is what his foot looks like. I would appreciate anyone's input. Thanks Lynette

Ok, we have silkies but we went to an auction and someone gave my daughter an egg. She insisted on seeing if it would hatch so we placed it in the incubator. Memorial Day weekend this is what hatched!! He or she is just over 2 weeks old, any ideas would be appreciated on what kind and...

Here is one of out chicks that hatched Feb 2012. Does anyone know what color this one is? Thanks.

My silkie rooster is limping on his right foot. We caught him today and looked at it. I can't see anything that resembles bumble foot on here but his feet are black (being a black silkie). It does have a hard area in the center of the foot and the other foot is flat in the same area. I just...

Our coop is raised about 2 feet off the ground and is approx 4x6. We usually leave the main door to the coop open during the day so the chickens can go in/out as they wish (the coop is enclosed by a 6 foot chain link fence). During the cold weather should we put some plastic or something in...

We have 5 silkie hens 1 has started laying and have been getting 1 egg every other day. Currently there are 7 eggs and none of the hens have decided to go broody. How long should the eggs be left in the nesting box? The oldest egg is 11 days old and of course we didn't think about dating them...

Ok, we have Silkies and thought we had 3 hens and 1 rooster. Turns out we have 2 hens and 2 roosters. Is this Ok or should we get more hens? The roosters seem to be getting along so far, 1 seems to be the dominant one and the other just seems to hang back and watch everyone else.

Ok, our silkies are now 17 weeks old and just used up the last of the starter feed. We bought a bag of Nature Wise Layer Feed 16% crumbles. Is it ok to start using it, and should they be getting anything else? Thanks for any input, we are new to this and so far just love them!

I have been told that chickens like to eat the mosquitoes but we live in Eastern Nebraska by the Platte and Missouri Rivers and are having lots of problems with flooding so with the extra water comes large swarms of mosquitoes, and I do mean lots of large swarm of mosquitoes everywhere! If we...

Ok, VERY new to raising chickens so be nice please! I have 4 silkie chickens. 11 weeks old...... they are still on the medicated starter food and still have a whole lot left in the bag.... Anything else they need at this point? and how much should they be eating. They appear to want to eat...

Hello, we just started with chickens about 3 weeks ago and have gotten a lot of information from here so finally decided to join and be able to post questions and one day maybe even be able to answer some questions as well. We are very new to this Chicken raising, attempted to educate...