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    Help ....!!!!!! Day 22 And Still No Sign Of Chickens

    Any chicks yet?
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    Dumbing down of America

    My favorite misspelling was in Boise, Idaho, a few years back. It was on a bus for a large daycare. In large letters on the side, it proudly proclaimed it was a "learnining" center! In ten years, they never changed it. I don't think they ever even noticed or knew it was wrong. No, I didn't...
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    Help ....!!!!!! Day 22 And Still No Sign Of Chickens

    Did you candle the eggs along the way to make sure they're developing? If your temps were off a bit, they can take an extra day or two. We've had some batches we never did hear peeping or see rocking, others we did. Have you tried whistling near the incubator and then listening for answers...
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    White Silkie Roo, two Silkie/Easter Egger Roos

    [/img] Romeo, white Silkie Roo. He's about a year old. Asking $10 or best offer. This is Chip. The pics do not do him justice. He's gorgeous, with a beautiful green sheen on his wings and tail. Not sure how big he's going to get, as he's a cross with a full size hen, an Easter Egger we think...
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    My German Shephard ate 2 chickens!

    I agree with adoptedbyachicken. It is possible to train them to leave them alone, though a few dogs just won't get it. A German Shepherd is a smart dog, and should do well with training, even if he has eaten one chicken. Especially if he is pretty well bonded to you. Several people have been...
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    Chicks from Tractor Supply

    Yep, totally silkies. Seems like most people who work there don't have a clue about what kind of chickens they've got. I bet most of them don't know what a silkie is, and that yes, it is a bantie. Cute little chickies and congratulations on your new acquisitions! We love our silkies...
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    Could this be a hernia from my EE's umbilical cord?

    I would just leave it be for now. If she's acting fine, then she probably is fine. More than likely over the next few days it'll disappear. We've had various weird things with our chicks too, and most of the time they just go away on their own. She's a cutie! Enjoy.
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    Bad Vent Prolapse Need Help! Graphic Pics

    We have a hen that several times had a bad prolapse shortly after she began laying. We put her in a warm bath to clean things off, then sprinkled all the exposed tissues with sugar. Each time it went back in on its own and stayed in till the next time. That hen still eats several times as much...
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    Day 22, 2nd one is hatching right now

    A "vaulted head" is just where the skull has part of it raised up, rather than a smooth rounded head. Where it's raised up is usually where the silkies have their big head puff of feathers come from. I got four babies out of the five silkie eggs we'd set, and the two silkie crosses from the...
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    Day 22, 2nd one is hatching right now

    Got two silkie crosses Monday early a.m. and mid-afternoon, and I just checked a few minutes ago and have two full silkie eggs pipped! Now if the other six eggs in the bator would get on the ball... We didn't know we were going to have silkie crosses, even though the silkies were in with the...
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    Day 22, 2nd one is hatching right now

    Yay for new chickies! It's nerve-wracking when they wait till a day or two late before making their appearance. We've been on pins and needles waiting for ours to hatch, and today (Monday) is day 21. We have two pips so far, one is zipping. We've got five silkies and five mutts, all from our...
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    Any tips for getting a 4 month old to go to bed?

    That's cute about her giggling to her mirror! I love all the things babies do. At that age, my kids took frequent naps during the day. I never really kept track of them. They slept when they felt like it. Some naps would be quite short, only a few minutes, others would be a couple of hours...
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    Any tips for getting a 4 month old to go to bed?

    They come with their own schedules, don't they? Have you tried soothing music? I don't mean those sappy lullaby CDs (apologies to anyone who likes those, they drive me nuts!) but my kids were always knocked out by Charlotte Church's first CD, or Enya, or Celtic Woman. Worked on my sister's...
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    anybody with a clue??

    All of mine I've hatched have had that. Might be a difference in the feed the hens had. All of ours have been free-ranging, so I assumed it was something from the grass the mama hens ate before they laid the eggs. They've all been fine. It was usually just the first poo or two. Good luck and...
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    Oats

    I don't see why not. They'd be foraging for them in that state in the wild, and their crop grinds the stuff up. We've given ours the crimped oats for horses and they've loved them.
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