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@sanna...I never got an exact age more like 3 or 4ish.She just came out side the coop today with her babies.I loved watching them.Found myself spending about an hour sittig and watching everyone. :)

 

I do the same thing. I've spent hours outside with my chickens! I suppose I am easily amused. big_smile.png

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Awww!  Just melts my heart!

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Oh my goodness! Such a beautiful hen...and those precious chicks peeking their little heads out...Christmas card material!!

 

 

Or Mother's Day...

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adult and started pairs occasionally available;
   No eggs or chicks. 
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Sounds like a vitamin deficiency she had.  I bet some Vitamin E might have cleared that up.  I like to give powder probiotics as a top dressing in their feed now and then to keep them balanced-- it is for goats and it has a lot of great vitamins in it, including Vit E.  I bought it at TSC, it comes in a tub for $11.  Totally worth it.  I know a lot of people buy the Vit E capsules and break those open and give it to their birds that are having troubles like you described.  But yeah, pretty sure that wasn't seizures she was having, or at least, not what you were thinking.  Sorry she was taken by a hawk, that is sad.  

You learn something new every day. I feel like such a moron that I didn't think to try to do more research on her condition. I'll remember this if I ever see a chicken do the same thing. Those were my first chickens ever back at the Mo-days. I just didn't know any better.  Poor Mo.hit.gif

I will take a trip to the feed store down the road and see if they have any. Otherwise I'll just order it online or something.

 

 

 

 

Candling eggs???!

I tried to candle our eggs today. Never done this before but I'm pretty sure my flash light wasn't bright enough and it wasn't dark enough in the coop. But. Most of the eggs seemed to be very dark so to say. I couldn't see through them. Some had those little empty areas at one end of the egg (can't remember what those are called). And a few eggs I found that seemed to have nothing in them, which would make them infertile?

If I did everything right and saw what I think was a chick in an egg, we should have about 25 eggs hatching in a day or two! th.gifI'm way excited, but we really don't need 25 chicks. lol I'll be looking for new homes soon!

How do you know what a bad egg looks like? One of those that might blow up under the hen?

 

Best candling is about a week to ten days.  After that developing eggs get too dark to make much out, although candling right before hatching can yield some really cute sights of beaks poking into the air cell.  If the egg smells rotten, it could explode.  Most of the time, though, eggs don't go rotten unless something introduced bacteria.

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Thought I'd share with the group my first bantams to my flock! Four silkies. One roo & three hens. Two fo the hens are pullets. Due to ordinances, if my neighbor complains I may have to get rid of my roo.

 

The roo & the older hen are the black with gold pencilling. I like the contrast. The two solid black ones are pullets.

 

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I posted new pictures of momma and babies, and even a short video!!!

 

Prepare for cuteness!

 

>>> http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/657545/silkie-momma-with-babies <<<

Love my Silkies!

Micah, Mia, Chloe, Cali, & Fancy

 

Carolina Blue Silkies

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Love my Silkies!

Micah, Mia, Chloe, Cali, & Fancy

 

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Originally Posted by ChickensXOXO View Post

I posted new pictures of momma and babies, and even a short video!!!

 

Prepare for cuteness!

 

>>> http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/657545/silkie-momma-with-babies <<<

 

OH MY GOODNESS! They are so cute!!!! My fingers are crossed that my girl decides to sit soon....

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Raising:

Partridge Silkies

Bantam B/B/S Orpingtons

Working on:

Bantam Silver Laced and Columbian Cochins

 

Member of American Silkie Bantam Club

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Best candling is about a week to ten days.  After that developing eggs get too dark to make much out, although candling right before hatching can yield some really cute sights of beaks poking into the air cell.  If the egg smells rotten, it could explode.  Most of the time, though, eggs don't go rotten unless something introduced bacteria.

I know I'm a little late on the candling. I was hoping I'd find some infertile eggs so we could throw those away and find out how many chicks we'll have, approximately.

I'm assuming the 'clear' eggs I found are the infertile ones.

 

 

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Originally Posted by ChickensXOXO View Post

I posted new pictures of momma and babies, and even a short video!!!

 

Prepare for cuteness!

 

>>> http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/657545/silkie-momma-with-babies <<<

That is ridicilously cute!!!

 

 

 

Just to share with the rest of the world; our eggs are starting to hatch!!! I just checked on them, I found two that are piping, one of the two already has a little crack on the shell. Lots of scratching noises going on in some of the other eggs.

I'm so excited I can't stand it! I feel like a kid in a candy store. lol

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Thought I'd share with the group my first bantams to my flock! Four silkies. One roo & three hens. Two fo the hens are pullets. Due to ordinances, if my neighbor complains I may have to get rid of my roo.

 

The roo & the older hen are the black with gold pencilling. I like the contrast. The two solid black ones are pullets.

 

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YOU STOLE MY ROOSTER!! LOL. My Roger looks like your roo.

 

And do I see that right? Are you using a rectangle planter as a feeder? That is BRILLIANT! I am so tired of my idiots scratching it out of them 10 pound hanging ones. They even manage to knock them apart! BUT THAT! I am betting that makes it real nice... Put a few landscape edgers in the bottom so they can't tip it. Cool!

 

At the very least, wipe the poop off your feet before getting in the car.

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Good night sweet Trousers, The Derp Club will miss you.
Treasure the love you recieve above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Og Mandino
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At the very least, wipe the poop off your feet before getting in the car.

"Member of the Derperella Club-- We're just all goin' round' the rooster, here!"
Good night sweet Trousers, The Derp Club will miss you.
Treasure the love you recieve above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Og Mandino
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I finally got a really nice picture of my silkie!!!  I love this picture so much!  I thought she was black, but you guys think dark blue.  She sort of has a mix of all kinds of colors going on it seems.  I love her so much, she is the best chicken.  My daughter carries her around belly up and she loves it LOL.  My 2y old carries her around and she loves that too. <3 <3 <3

1 Buff Orpington, 2 Cinnamon Queens, 4 Silkie, 2 dominiques, 2 black sex links, 3 EE's, and 2 Welsummers
 

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1 Buff Orpington, 2 Cinnamon Queens, 4 Silkie, 2 dominiques, 2 black sex links, 3 EE's, and 2 Welsummers
 

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