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Hello!
I just returned from a weekend at a music festival and I checked on my chickens. My beloved silkie hen (Sweetheart) somehow injured her foot. We suspect she got it stuck in between a couple boxes. She has lost the use of her left leg! I put her in a box with food away from the other chickens and bandaged the small wound on her foot with an iodine spray. I am not sure what is happening with her leg!
Should I go to a vet? Should I bandage the leg tucked into her body as if she were sleeping?
She is starting to get fed up of being in the box so please respond ASAP!!!!!!
Thank you so much!
Chloë
 
Ckicken Lover said:
Hello!
I just returned from a weekend at a music festival and I checked on my chickens. My beloved silkie hen (Sweetheart) somehow injured her foot. We suspect she got it stuck in between a couple boxes. She has lost the use of her left leg! I put her in a box with food away from the other chickens and bandaged the small wound on her foot with an iodine spray. I am not sure what is happening with her leg!
Should I go to a vet? Should I bandage the leg tucked into her body as if she were sleeping?
She is starting to get fed up of being in the box so please respond ASAP!!!!!!
Thank you so much!
Chloë
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Chloe, if you suspect that she may have broken something then it really would be best to take her to the vet. Being as you don't know how or why this happened , she may have been trapped for some time and the circulation may have been cut off .
 
Fancychooklady said:
Chloe, if you suspect that she may have broken something then it really would be best to take her to the vet. Being as you don't know how or why this happened , she may have been trapped for some time and the circulation may have been cut off .
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I don't think she broke anything because nothing seems out of place! We are planning to take her to the vet tomorrow! I read somewhere else that she could have dislocated something. Do you think that's possible?
 
so ive been incubating silkie crosses. I'm on day 19 until 2pm today (thursday)and I see no movement.
when I candled them on day 18, there was movement inside the eggs. I came home tonight the temp had dropped to 97, but it was holding a steady 102. my humidity is at 62 and I cant get it any higher. im using a homemade styro incubator. Ive been dry incubating and weighing, everyone was doing great....Im just paranoid that they have passed...Im being very patient and not touching the bator, just monotoring through the window. Any advice is appreciated please and thank you.
 
mystonedgarden said:
so ive been incubating silkie crosses. I'm on day 19 until 2pm today (thursday)and I see no movement.
when I candled them on day 18, there was movement inside the eggs. I came home tonight the temp had dropped to 97, but it was holding a steady 102. my humidity is at 62 and I cant get it any higher. im using a homemade styro incubator. Ive been dry incubating and weighing, everyone was doing great....Im just paranoid that they have passed...Im being very patient and not touching the bator, just monotoring through the window. Any advice is appreciated please and thank you.
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21 days is just a baseline. While you are ' sitting on your hands ' please read through this very helpful article by @ Sally Sunshine.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101
 
I have been incubating some eggs and I never candled them bc I didn't want to bother them, so I totally never touched them. (Besides when i put them into the bator) Tuesday it should've been the 19th day so I took out the turner and put the eggs back in. When i put the eggs back in they were all heavy so im assuming they are doing ok. This afternoon it should be the 21st day. I know the eggs (most the eggs) are fertile bc I got then from a friend and they have a lot of Roos. I'm just so nervous. I feel like I should keep turning them but everybody says you need to stop turning on day 18/19.
 
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Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out.
I someone on here mentioned that they had never seen a female Silkie mock crow under the age of 1 and I forget who it was, so please forgive me, but this morning my only pullet out of 5 straight run chicks joined the crowd and crowed.
Now, it was a poor job, but it crowed none the less, so that makes 5 out of 5 that appear to be roos if the crowing theory is correct.
Can this even be possible, or did I just step into the twilight zone?
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Half Moon Ranch said:
Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out.
I someone on here mentioned that they had never seen a female Silkie mock crow under the age of 1 and I forget who it was, so please forgive me, but this morning my only pullet out of 5 straight run chicks joined the crowd and crowed.
Now, it was a poor job, but it crowed none the less, so that makes 5 out of 5 that appear to be roos if the crowing theory is correct.
Can this even be possible, or did I just step into the twilight zone?
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Welcome to the dark side....... We have the sex change fairy visit here often.
 

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