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For the most part, my girls were pretty quiet. Some clucking now and then and the occasional false predator alarm sqwuak, but otherwise what I expected. However, in the past few months (they're around 2 years old now) they've been going crazy in the mornings. From 7-12, they'll give short...

One of my silkies, currently almost 2 years old, has recently developed white, dry patches on her face, almost like eczema. Is this dangerous? How do I fix it? If it helps, she has been rather broody for the past week.

I have five 3-month old chickens; 4 Silkies and a Polish. We just moved them from the cardboard box in our garage to the coop outside two days ago, and they seemed to be doing fine. Just a few hours ago though, I noticed that my Polish was acting a little off. When I tried to grab her to put her...

When I ordered my batch of silkies, two of them I ordered as white silkies. Now, at around 2 months, one of those chicks which I thought was white is looking an awful lot like a splash silkie, an off-white color with flecks of light gray. When she was a chick, both she and her white sister both...

For a chicken house, if both the coop and the nesting boxes have the same type of bedding, will the hens be able to tell the difference between the two different areas? Should I use wood shavings for the coop and straw for the boxes, or can I use wood shaving for both, provided that the hens are...

We recently got a polish and 4 silkies: 2 white, a black, and a buff. They're three weeks old. While they all seem to be healthy, it seems like the black and buff are a bit smaller than the rest. I'm not sure if this is a breed thing where white silkies are larger than the rest, and I have as of...

I recently discovered that my silkie chick, just a couple days old, has an injured leg, and I've been helping it to eat again, keep it warm, holding it, etc. I wrapped the legs up to help them heal, and I'm finding my baby chick asleep on it's back, legs straight-ish and pointed away from it and...

We just received our shipment of 6 chicks this morning. 5 silkies and 1 golden laced polish. They all seem to be doing well except one, a grey silkie. With them being newborn babies, I expect a good amount of sleeping and lethargy, but this one seems a bit more tired than the rest. She's eating...

We're getting six chickens, 5 silkies and a polish, and we're planning on buying a coop since we just don't have the time to make one ourselves. We're thinking of getting this one: http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Chicken-Coops/The-Clubhouse-Coop-with-Run-up-to-4-chickens-p1167.aspx Have...

My family is going to get 5 silkies and a golden laced polish in a couple months, and one of our concerns for their safety are the cats I see now and then. I'm not sure whether the cats belong to someone who lets them roam whenever they want or whether they're strays, but I'm just scared they'll...

A few months ago, my family ordered 6 chickens from MyPetChicken; they will arrive around April 20. This will be our first experience being backyard chicken owners. We ordered 5 silkie bantams: 2 white, a black, a blue, and a buff. We also ordered one Golden Laced Polish. Now, it occurred to me...