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Proud Veteran’s wife 🎖️Fisherwoman 🎣Farm to table foodie🧑🏼‍🍳 Lover/breeder of bearded silkie chickens 🐣
🥇Show winner
💉Mycoplasma vax
🏡Located in Northern MI
✈️NPIP 43-744
💙blue/splash
🧡buff
🤍recessive white
🖤 black to black

Silkies- 70% fluff, 30% judgment- right outta the egg!
02/09/2026

Silkies- 70% fluff, 30% judgment- right outta the egg!

The sight of a tree draped in Spanish moss is both fascinating and foreboding, don’t you agree?
02/09/2026

The sight of a tree draped in Spanish moss is both fascinating and foreboding, don’t you agree?

Did they plan this? 🤣🤣
02/09/2026

Did they plan this? 🤣🤣

Are you catching the Olympics in Milan?What sport are you most interested in? Do you root for the USA or another country...
02/08/2026

Are you catching the Olympics in Milan?
What sport are you most interested in?
Do you root for the USA or another country?

I saw this painting in a store and it reminded me of all my farming friends 🥰I grew up in the outskirts of Detroit. I d...
02/08/2026

I saw this painting in a store and it reminded me of all my farming friends 🥰

I grew up in the outskirts of Detroit. I didn’t see my first farm animal until I was a teen and remember the smell like today 🤮 (cuz I barely remember yesterday 🫣)

I fell in love with the silkie chicken breed, and never looked at anything else. I know nothing about any other types of farm animals.

Please, drop a pic of one of your animals and tell me something special about it and why you have it- meat, eggs, cute, fuzzy, fur, wool, etc. and what you do with it.

Essentially, help educate me for when I interact with your page!

🗣️Call to action- drop a pic of one of your animals and say why you have them

If red earlobes mean brown eggs, and white earlobes mean white eggs, why do silkies not lay blue eggs?I’m very curious t...
02/07/2026

If red earlobes mean brown eggs, and white earlobes mean white eggs, why do silkies not lay blue eggs?
I’m very curious to know the accuracy of this information as it was trivia in one of my chicken books but now I’ve seen so many colored eggs! What color are their ears?
One of my very early boys showing off his ears

02/07/2026

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Look Ma, no coat! Blue skies 🤩
02/07/2026

Look Ma, no coat! Blue skies 🤩

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02/06/2026

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Woohoo! We’ve just reached 2K followers! Thank you for your continuing support and I fully acknowledge this is a team ef...
02/05/2026

Woohoo!
We’ve just reached 2K followers! Thank you for your continuing support and I fully acknowledge this is a team effort! You
I could never have made it without each one of you.
I have made so many great friendships here! I cannot wait to see what the future brings 🥰
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Many of you asked which super electrolytes I was giving to Sterling. I picked it up at a poultry show and it looks like ...
02/05/2026

Many of you asked which super electrolytes I was giving to Sterling. I picked it up at a poultry show and it looks like the Agrilabs is the same, from Rogier Poultry & Small Animal Feeds or Twin City Poultry.
My chicken sitter has been taking fabulous care of everyone while I’m out of state.
We will finally have “Florida” weather next week!

Part 7 and the last of our series on common poultry vaccines 🦠 Mycoplasma: What You Need to Know 🐔Mycoplasma (most comm...
02/05/2026

Part 7 and the last of our series on common poultry vaccines

🦠 Mycoplasma: What You Need to Know 🐔

Mycoplasma (most commonly Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae) is a bacterial infection that is very common in backyard flocks. FINALLY! A bacteria, right?! This must be easier to treat and manage than all of those viruses we have been learning about- wrong!

Here’s the part people don’t always realize 👇

➡️ Once a chicken has mycoplasma, they carry it for life. 😟

That bird may look perfectly healthy, but it can still spread the infection (as a carrier)—especially during times of stress. (Think shipping, molt, weather changes, changing pens, or adding new birds to the pen)

Common signs include:
-Sneezing
-Nasal discharge
-Foamy or bubbly eyes
-Swollen sinuses
-Congested or “rattly” breathing
-Drop in egg production or thin shells

💊 What about antibiotics for bacteria?
Antibiotics can reduce symptoms and help birds feel better, but they do not cure mycoplasma. The symptoms can last 3 to 5 weeks, so it can really damage your program and weaken your birds. Treated birds are still carriers. Tylan is a commonly used antibiotic, but you could also use doxycycline or erythromycin if you have access to it. (Check Twin City or Rogiers as these all now require a prescription, including Tylan, which we used to be able to get at TSC).

How does it spread?
-Bird-to-bird contact
-Shared feeders/waterers (can live a few days on surfaces)
-Hatching eggs (vertical transmission - hen to chick)
-Introducing new birds

💉 The vaccine is 0.5 ml injected behind the neck and recommended at one week and a booster at 4 weeks. This is the only vaccine I have given to date. I have found giving so much serum to such a tiny silkie body can unalive them very quickly. 😭 I now give my vaccines around one month with a repeat at two months and to all new birds following a 14 to 30 day quarantine to monitor for any sickness.

You want to be certain to quarantine any new bird as the stress of a new environment or shipping can trigger a flareup if they have been infected.

📌 Bottom line:
Mycoplasma is common, lifelong, and manageable - but not curable.

Feel free to share because informed chicken tenders make healthier flocks. 🐓❤️

Infographic sourced from google

What is your experience with Mycoplasma or chronic respiratory disease? Or symptoms you weren’t sure of…

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