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4/28/12 at 7:53pm

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Those look great, we tried dial up for a while, it lasted a week and switch back to the good one - gotta love the google chrome :)

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4/28/12 at 7:54pm

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I love the cobby bodies. Very nice birds. I'm no expert but I think their great!

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4/28/12 at 7:57pm

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Quote: They all need baths. I just picked up the johnson and johnson baby shampoo. Maybe tomorrow.

Originally Posted by beauty2thebirds

I would almost rather wait for the cock a doodle doo than depress myself with the sexing. I know how to vent sex a standard chicken. Bantams can't be any different. Might need a magnifying glass though. Sometimes looking at combs can be confusing, and a whole bunch of guessing.

I'll start with the 5 month old blues and work my way down. Here are a few to start the guessing game.

I'm only going to post 4 at a time.

I hatched out 37 new babies last weekend and another 17 on Wed. and Thursday! I haven't even added them to the count

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4/28/12 at 8:31pm

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Originally Posted by TheChicknGarden

Ooh another question that popped into my head... If indeed peaches is a boy. Is there a need to be concern that he'd fertilize nugget? Haven't seen any mating rituals but then again i'm not outside 100percent of the day.... Peaches or Pit shall we call it lol is going to be 4 1/2 months is that too soon for a rooster to be able to fertilize a hen... We dont no surprise fertilized eggs ... I haven't sold the whole baby chicks hatching to my husband ... Hence we'd have to return....

in silkies you typically don't see the boys wanting to breed til about 6 months, some a bit earlier, some don't act boyish til almost a year old.

If you collect your eggs every day, you'd never even notice fertilized eggs. It takes 3 days of 80-90 degree temps before development is readily noticed ( that small spot on all eggs even store bought will have a really defined circle, bit a tiny bit bigger and have some tiny veins) on a yolk of a cracked open egg. It takes 21 days for a chick to hatch, so even with a roo as long as you don't pop eggs in an incubator or let a hen go broody on eggs, you won't have to worry about chicks or anything.

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4/28/12 at 8:37pm

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One of my new babies, can you believe shes only 8/9 weeks old!?!

My beautiful girl Ginger

Licorice - 6 month old black pullet

one of my grow out kids - this one is about 10/11 weeks old

Some of mine all out free ranging - They are just lounging about

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4/28/12 at 8:40pm

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Those are some truly BEAUTIFUL babies!!

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4/28/12 at 8:42pm

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OOOPS! they are 3 months old in these pictures . I put up the wrong pictures. Sorry all.

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4/28/12 at 9:32pm

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Originally Posted by NatashaF

Could you have an idea by what the tails look like? Like shorter tail= hen and longer tail= roo???

not really; especially not when we're talking youngsters. Tails take a long time to grow. By the time tail size would make a difference, there would be many other obvious clues.

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4/28/12 at 9:34pm

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Originally Posted by vickifiveoh

Here are a couple of my Silkies I hatched out 7 months ago..........

I love the whites. They are sooo angelic!

Twin Oaks Ranch Silkies I can't believe those little Silkies grabbed my heart!
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4/28/12 at 9:36pm

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Originally Posted by beauty2thebirds

I think bisquit is a hen. Good luck. I have almost 100 to sex. Hmmmm. Maybe it's time for me to get some pictures up too!

Twin Oaks Ranch Silkies I can't believe those little Silkies grabbed my heart!
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