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Again - thanks for all the info. The scratch grain we had been feeding them is a 15 grain mix, although they seemed to pick and choose some of the grains over the others. They had been laying fairly well, considering they are silkies, but it began to slow down mid-summer. We started using...

Thanks for all the input. It may be an diet issue as we (without knowing better) had them on a steady diet of scratch - and only scratch. We switched to layers pellets a couple of weeks ago. The suggestion to trim around their eyes makes a lot of sense and we will get on that today. As far...

We have been raising silkies for about 5 years now with no problems, but recently a few of them have been losing weight at an alarming rate. Our egg production also slowed almost to a stop. (4-6 eggs per day from almost 30 hens) We have wormed them with Wazine and treated for coccidiosis...