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My beloved silkie, Chardonnay seems to have a crop problem - she was jerking her head around quite a bit and we realised that her crop was enlarged, we have vomited her a couple of times, she seems desperate to eat but every time she has something to eat it seems to just be getting stuck, she...

You were definitely right - poor Dolly must be having an identify crisis - have to call him Dexter now !!

The white one was about 18 weeks on 17th August and just started laying a week or so ago ... The gold we were not totally sure of her age when we got her so I couldn't say. Our booted bantam is the oldest - about 10 months and still no eggs !!

Update on our chickens/laying - the gold silkie started laying in october, the white silkie started laying just a couple of weeks ago - despite the white one not being a bantam the eggs are only just a little bigger !! Our Pekins went broody a little while ago and have not laid since - but...

I am sorry I have no idea about that but I think you should try anything that comes to mind- a physical barrier should surely work ?

7 months approx

Hi Shaun, We're also in Liverpool !! So sorry for your loss. Hope you'll be able to move on in time and enjoy your new chooks. We got most of ours from dobbies in Speke but literally 4 out of 7 have been boys and we've had to try and swap them! Everyone thinks its hilarious!!! Nice to find...

But now it turns out that dolly might be a boy !!! After all that love and attention !! Oh dear !! I can't bear to part with him/her so just going to wait it out until we get crowing or some other rooster type behaviour !!

7 months ..

Really do you think? That will be the 4th Roo we have had out of 7 chooks

So the sablepoot is Tilly - the millefleur Dolly !! Dolly's tail feathers seem to be a lot larger than Tilly's - surely if she was a Roo it would be more pronounced than this at 7 months! The place where we got them has some millefleurs that are definitely boys -- what do you think ?? No eggs yet !

I think they are about 22/24 weeks now - no sign of eggs but they are awful sweet

Maggie and Peggie our Pekins laid an egg each yesterday and now Maggie looks like she's laying another !!! If you look at the pictures above you'll see how developed their combs are and I would say the wattles have grown a little bigger since I took the pictures. Not totally sure how old they...