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the one silkie returned around noon today. i have no idea where it was hiding. lol

sorry i meant to add these to my post. The chicken that is missing is a reddish brown.

So i has 6 silkies and 4 production reds and they free range our backyard everyday. I let them out as usual yesterday morning and when i came home around 3 i couldn’t find any of them. After looking for about a half hour one of the silkies came out from under the deck. I looked and found...

They are housed separately, its just that the other hens chase them around the yard. In 2 weeks i am getting 6 more pullets, some Americanas and some Rhode Island Reds. I was thinking since they were smaller that after the 2 week quarantine i would have them in with the silkies and see if...

I have 4 Production Red pullets and 6 silkies. The Production Reds are 5 weeks older than the Silkies. The Production Reds seem to be picking on the Silkies, they chase them and peck at them all the time. Im just worried that the Silkies are going to get hurt. At night they have their own...

Production Red Pullets

Production Red Pullets

Thank you very much for the link, it was very informative!!

I moved the older chick to its own box, and i gave the sick chick a home made electrolyte drink every 20 minutes forcing it to drink as well as giving it some greek yogurt. It seems to have made a huge difference and is eating and drinking on its own It is still a little slow but hopefully it...

Oh i didn't include that the 3 chicks that i had are 3 weeks old and the one single one i added was 5 weeks. Wasn't sure if maybe there was something going on with bullying, and what i could do to fix this. I am aware that they develop a pecking order but if the new one and the little one were...

Not really, i wasn't aware i had too.. i let them all meet in a neutral area and they all seemed to get along.. is there anything i can do other than giving it electrolytes and force feeding it some yogurt?

I have 3 silkies from day old and they all were acting fine and very energetic. 2 days ago i got a 5 week old silkie and introduced it to the others and kept it in the brooder w them. Yesterday they were all in a 8'x8' pen outside for a few hours and everything seemed fine. They all seemed...