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    Silkie barred rock cross

    I know this is an old thread but here is my Barred Rock rooster x Buff Silkie Bantam hen offspring, a handsome little cockerel.
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    Mixes chicken, mixed eye color?

    I’m still pretty new to chickens and had a broody hen hatch out one mixed chick, BPR x Silkie bantam. He’s cute and just started crowing at about 12 weeks. However, I was carrying him around yesterday and noticed that one eye is golden, the other is 2/3 golden and 1/3 dark. I don’t see any sign...
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    Requiem for Babypeep?

    Thanks.
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    Requiem for Babypeep?

    No Babypeep. We are losing hope for a return. :fl
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    White Silkie Roo in Maryland

    Hi, grew up in RS and my parents still live there. He’s a handsome little guy. How well does he tolerate being handled?
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    Chicken escaped - but in the dark AND at a new location

    When we have to corral unwilling chickens early (if we will be leaving before sunset and out very late) we make a cattle chute out of an old baby play fence. They can easily fly over it but tend to just run inside and into the coop when herded by my kids. If you have some netting or snow fence...
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    Requiem for Babypeep?

    I sincerely hope I’m not writing an obituary. My husband texted me that our silkie bantam hen didn’t show up for treats this morning and hasn’t come back to roost tonight. We didn’t mean to get a silkie in the first place when we picked out our first dozen chickens, but being as new to chickens...
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    Whats the saddest Poultry loss you've had?

    We lost a chick this spring the day after we got it which upset the kids. But my worst is the rooster who died yesterday. We don’t know what got him but he was bloody and gasping when we found him and didn’t last long.
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    She did it!

    My broody hen successfully hatched three of her four eggs! (The fourth one vanished during week two, we can only speculate what got it.) So excited for these cuties! :celebrate
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Don’t know what happened there, sorry!
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    No eggs

    Could they be laying elsewhere? When mine started laying and I suspected they were finding other places, I left them in their run until late afternoon for three days, and like magic egg “production” went up.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Nine eggs from 14 pullets. Check out the size difference though!
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    The broody twins

    The twin has gone back to roosting without any intervention on our part. I guess being locked in the broody box didn’t appeal to her! :lau
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    The broody twins

    My mixed flock of 6 month-old chickens has its first broody hen. We think she’s a Cuckoo Maran. She went broody about a week ago and has been sitting on a small clutch of viable eggs for four days. We have her separated and let her out in the late afternoon to get a drink and some food (although...
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    Frying eggs on the sidewalk!

    It’s hot here in PA, the chickens decided to try cooking an egg on the concrete. Seriously, someone laid an egg on the back porch yesterday afternoon. The first thing I heard was my husband ask “what are they eating?”, and I spot Mika and the three roosters pecking at an egg yolk. I shooed them...
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