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3/30/12 at 12:46pm

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I want to get a silkie tomorrow and I need rebuttle for my hubby when he asks me why I need it LOL I'm going to tell him that they don't eat as much as the other chickens so it won't drive our food bill up LOL.

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