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Thanks- I will leave them at home (under care of hubby- fingers crossed!)

Ok, here's a question- just received my day old babies (yay!) and was planning to travel to PA for long weekend July 4th. I was going to have M-i-L watch them at her house, but would it be do-able to bring them along instead, in their brooder? (So they'd be sure to get the attention they...

So I've finally (again) broken 2 of my silkies of their broody behavior. I let them out to freerange with the others today, and noticed one of them just standing there, not pecking, not eating. I managed to catch her and gave her a quick once-over. No apparent injury, crop appears to be...

Quote: my full size birds (and silkies) fit thru an opening about that size for laying in the nest box...

My RIR would stand outside the nest box and sing to the silkies laying (they hang out together) Now I know where the expression "egging them on" comes from!! ETA OOPS! Sorry for the double post..

My RIR would stand outside the nest box and sing to the silkies laying (they hang out together) Now I know where the expression "egging them on" comes from!!

I have 9, (6 standard, 3 silkies), and one community nest box. I've seen 2 at a time in there, otherwise they wait their turn Can you remove partitions or anything, to make one box larger, more community style...? Good luck!

Really?!? My April 2010 babies have been laying for a solid month now! Guess I had early bloomers...? ETA We get between 4-6 eggs/day, with 6 standards and 3 silkies. Even the silkies have been laying, but one's gone broody on me just starting yesterday... Quote:

Sounds like you answered your own question Cheers! Quote: This is exactly why I said in my original post that I already knew about the bloom and all of the arguments against washing eggs.......you are going to get so many different opinions that you wind up still not knowing what to do. My...

Oh, and they get oyster shells, plenty of everything they need. Everyone's been laying and the shells have always been super hard...

4 of my feathered friends were closed out of the coop last night, as the auto door closed early because of overcast skies. I went out to check on them @ 10pm, and 3 were huddled on the ramp, 1 was on a stump roost. (the run is all enclosed, so they were safe, at least) They looked very scared...

Luckily, I was just finishing up the nest box - now officially "open for business!"

I noticed my 16 week old Speckled Sussex, Bella, pacing and going in and out of the coop this afternoon. I put a dishpan with a couple of fake eggs and some hay in the coop - sure enough, she settled down into the pan, pushed the 2 "eggs" underneath herself, and was throwing hay onto her back...

Thank you all! I, too, use shavings for the coop bedding, and felt the boxes should have something different....( I especially liked that idea of using dried grasses - way to recycle!!)

Or something else...? Thanks!

Depending on where you are, could be a Fisher Cat - I've seen them in my neighborhood in Eastern MA. They hunt day and night...

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Leftover steak, salmon, potatoes, corn on the cob (a true flock favorite!)

My silkies like to mix it up - sometimes they pile, sometimes they're on the low roost. That's how they roll...