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I bought 24 baby silkie chicks. 3 black, white, grey, blue, splash, buff, red and partridge. I don't know which is roosters or hens, yet. Out of the three...I would think I would have one of each. My question is, which ones should I put in coops together? I only have three separate coops. Any information would be appreciated.

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Why do you want to keep them separate? Are you planning on breeding or just keeping them for eggs?

 

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked ~ Bernard Meltzer

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I would keep them all together.  If you are planning on breeding them I guess you should house them according to what colors you are wanting to breed??  I don't know anything at all about silkie breeds, but while they are growing you can study the silkie threads and make a decision.

 

If you are planning on keeping them all, you can plan on at least half of them to be cockerels.  You may want to make a bachelor pen.  That will be a lot of roosters.

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I've decided to keep my black, blue, splash and self blue together to breed.  I'll put the others together for eggs.  I'll keep all roosters and hope they get along!

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I bought these as hens.  What do you think?  Roosters or Hens?

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