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Well we picked him up and lunchtime to go and cull him and someone mentioned a chopping block and that bird got all excited and started flapping and putting up a fuss so we figured he might actually have something in him so we decided we would give him another day. However he passed away this...

He seems to have taken a turn for the worst. He barely eats anymore and my mom was putting a single piece of oatmeal in his beak, he would eventually eat it then she would feed another single piece. He managed to eat 4 pieces of oatmeal. We're leaning towards culling him, it's not right to make...

Interesting, when I was researching Silkies before buying them I everything I read was you just treat them as a normal chicken. I did notice that they weren't shedding water like the Chanclers. Thanks for the heads up. So it looks like there is no cure for Marek's, Is culling the only...

Forgot to mention that there were some bubbles of clear fluid around his nostrils. The other 16 chickens all look fine. Could uncooked soy beans do this? They were unloading the silos yesterday and he may have eaten some soy beans as there is a lot left on the ground

I have a silkie cockerel. I was told he is 16 weeks but he's probably closer to 20 based on his size compared to the others from the same batch. Yesterday was a cold (10c) windy and rainy day. It was the first time my birds have ever seen rain. They are all free range, as in no fences and I...