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    Welcome to Pixiechick's Homepage This is my dog, Shasta. She gets a bit jealous of the chickens so I promised to post her picture first. Here are some of my chicks soon after they arrived. But they don't stay that size long! Here's what I have to put up wth! Buffy: sweet baby silkie who...
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    What should I do for a bite wound?

    I've got her inside so she'll be warm. I just put some neosporin and gauze on the sore. It's way up under her wing. I can't really figure a way to keep it off of it so I thought the gauze might protect it some. Will it be ok to leave it like that over night or should I take it off?
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    What should I do for a bite wound?

    A dog from down the road just grabbed my favorite chicken out of my flower bed while I was giving my baby a bottle. My husband chased the dog home and brought Daisy back. She is still alive but there is a pretty big wound under her wing. She is limping (if you could even call it that) on that...
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    What should I do for a bite wound?

    A dog from down the road just grabbed my favorite chicken out of my flower bed while I was giving my baby a bottle. My husband chased the dog home and brought Daisy back. She is still alive but there is a pretty big wound under her wing. She is limping (if you could even call it that) on that...
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    Mites!!!

    The heat is helping! She is a little perkier and holding her head up for the first time today! She can't peck yet, but we squirted some cooked blood liver (uh . . . yummy?) down her. Maybe there's hope after all. I went and dusted the coop and run pretty well. We have really high winds...
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    Mites!!!

    It is supposed to get down to 17 degrees tonight. Is there any chance that it will freeze the mites out?
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    Mites!!!

    I really think she is too far gone. The sugar water we tried to give her just ran back out of her mouth. She alive still, but feels sort of stiff. What can I do about my coop and other birds? I'll dust them and the coop floor, but I feel like they must be everywhere.
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    Mites!!!

    My silkie has acted funny for the past few days. I was afraid my bigger chickens had been picking on her because we've had bad weather and they've had to stay in their run a lot more. This morning, she didn't come out when I opened the door and I found her laying on the coop floor. I scooped...
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    Ideas for mini coop for 2 Disabled silkies?

    Do you have a pet carrier? It would probably hold two little silkies, especially just for a weekend. For that matter, you could probably let them sleep in a cardboard box on its side if your run is secure. If your silkies aren't used to sleeping there, however, they probably won't go in on...
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    Where to put waterer and feeder

    I keep mine in the run.
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    Is this an EE hen? I hope so!

    I think so. I have one that looks just like that, and she's my favorite. Her eggs are light blue and huge even though she is a bit smaller than my others.
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    Do silkies roost?

    My mom's silkies walk up a ramp to get onto the roost at night. I think they naturally want to be close to the other chickens. I sit my little on the roost every night because, if I don't, she gets right under the others to sleep and gets pooped on .
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    new to guineas, few questions

    My mom lives on over 20 acres and her guineas still range all the way to the neighbor's place. You would need to keep them in run and definately give them feed in a yard your size. As for wing clipping, we've never done it. We don't eat the eggs either but, if you like duck eggs, you might...
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    Design phase, food and water in coop or runner?

    I always make a point to keep any food out of the coop so as not to attract any nocturnal critters inside. (As if several big fat chickens weren't tastey enough!)
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    Weird "sticky" feather issue.

    Do they free range? Where I live, certain grasses excrete a sticky sort of sap that makes the dogs and horses look very messy. Maybe your chickens are getting into a similar something.
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