Emergency!!!!

[FlyingNunFarm]

Well I learned something new! In the US where I am Silkies are only Bantam size. LOL You don't have a location listed so you very well could have standard silkies. (If so sign me up for hatching eggs. )
Older hens want to stay in top position. It's all about the pecking order. You can always put food and treats out in more then one spot. Far enough away that a bully can't guard both.
The virus has to run its course. Just don't mess with the scabs.

 

[Xlcandylx]

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Keep your chicks away from the older ones until the pox has gone away, since the scabs and direct contact can help spread the virus. Do not disturb scabs. Pox usually lasts about 3 weeks, but it can slowly spread from bird to bird in the flock. Dry pox is usually not serious, but sometimes they can get wet pox which involves yellow patches inside the throat and airway. Wet pox is very serious, and chicks can be affected worse with either type.

They are on a different side of the yard. But we have them in there boorey box and here in a couple of weeks there pen is going to be made. We planned to have our breeding hens and have our laying hens. But with the poxs and since that pen has the poxs should I make sure I have both pens separated like 4-10 foot distance? On wet poxs I know y'all say it's in there thoughs... How can I be able to see if it's in there?

Well I learned something new! In the US where I am Silkies are only Bantam size. LOL You don't have a location listed so you very well could have standard silkies. (If so sign me up for hatching eggs. )
Older hens want to stay in top position. It's all about the pecking order. You can always put food and treats out in more then one spot. Far enough away that a bully can't guard both.
The virus has to run its course. Just don't mess with the scabs.

I live in the us i live in Texas... My silkies are the side of my 11 week roo. The girls are a lot bigger than those little guys, and since they are little the girls pick on them and run to where ever spot they see them pecking at... When I give treats I have to separate those girls so they all can get treats.

 

[Xlcandylx]

All my girls has the fowl pox... None of my boys have it though... Is there something I can give them so the new babies won't get it since I have them isolated away from the disease? I don't want to go through another episode of this with my new girls. Plus I only have 2 girls that's laying, but the past week none has given an egg. Is it because they have fowl pox or is there something more going on?