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  1. CandySilkieGirl

    Chick has strange peep?

    Okay so we had a Rhode Island Red roo for awhile and we hatched out some chicks at the time and got a barred rock from him and our barred hen. This chick ended up replacing the RIR and is now a year old (my baby Chester :) and we had some broody hens recently and threw a few of the eggs in our...
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    Who rules the coop?

    not sure how far this thread will go, but i was curious as to which hen is TOP hen? Who's at the top of the pecking order? :) mine is Lucielle our Polish.
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    Keeping the lid on hatching chicks?

    Hi, so iv heard babies need to stay in the incubator until they are dry. So does this mean I cannot open the lid for them to hatch? I wanted to watch the process easier, and on YouTube they usually keep the lid off to record the hatches. I have always kept the lid on during hatches. I was just...
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    Silkie leg feathering?

    Okay, so my partridge silkie Ziggy never developed leg feathers, she is over a year old and From what research I did people have stated "They are not purebred silkies if they have no leg feathering" I ordered her and 5 other SILKIES from a hatchery and she is the only one who never got leg...
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    Talking chickens? :)

    So I'v been curious as to why can a parrot or parakeet learn to talk but not a chicken? Can you imagine a talking chicken!?
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    Hens laying eggs on top of another hen!

    So for the first time two of my non-bantam chickens became broody! Well all together my three Serama hens are setting together, one of my silkies started and my polish and Americauna. Now are laying flock consists of 9 hens. two are setting (right next to eachother, there is always egg stealing...
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    Cute lil' silkie, boy or girl?

    This is Dusty my little buff silkie it's about 5 weeks old and I'm hoping its a hen since we already have a rooster for the silkie pen and can't keep anymore roosters. I'm pretty good at telling gender in chicks early on but not silkies. So anyone have an idea if its a roo or hen? Thank you :)
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    My chicken dropped dead!

    So Caramel is one of our red stars and today she died right in front of us. It was morning feed time and everyone was doing fine, eating breakfast, then all of a sudden she acts as if she's been shot. Screaming, flapping her wings falling over then she's dead. What happened?? She seemed...
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    I need a Bantam expert!

    So my grandma bought some chickens from a chicken farm a year or two back and was told the two hens were in fact Seramas. While they did not know the breed of the rooster. Recently me and her were looking at pictures of English quail bantams and Japanese bantams. They look very similar to our...
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    Mystery silkie chicks!

    Well my babies are getting older and I want to know what they will look like! I'm thinking Colombian silkies? Please share pics if you have any. Thanks! :)
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    Lists and reviews?? Help?

    So, I am new and i'm eager to make a "list" At the bottom of my page it says; "click create a new list" Um I see that no where. And i'd love to make some reviews on chickens, but I click "write a review" and I get a message saying "You do not have permission to write or edit a review" Can I...
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    Owl faced silkies!

    [/IMG][/IMG]Hello! I'm excited to finally start being a member of this site. So Ill start off by showing you my new chicks Bonnie, and I have not thought of a name for the other. The mother is a silver laced americauna, and the proud father a partridge silkie. I am in love with the look these...
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    White silkie chicks?

    So I have been searching for WHITE silkie chicks for quite awhile now, and I finally found two on craigslist the other day. so I picked up the chicks yesterday and saw the mother, she was pure white and very fluffy. The lady assured me the babies will be white although they are a cream color...
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