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We don't exactly live in a tract home neighborhood, but we are in the suburbs. Our girls are in a small raised coop and run that is tucked up to our house and is separated from our nearest neighbors by our driveway ad their side yard. Their bedroom window faces the coop but we've never had...

Minerva Louise, one of our Silkies at 6 weeks.

This is Peep, our year-old Wellie hen.

Quote: Hehe, I waved when I walked by, but you were chatting up a buyer and I didn't want to interrupt a big sale! Was Heather there? I was going to say hi, but I never saw her, not that it would have been easy to find someone--a friend of mine came to buy a half dozen layers and we walked...

The swap was HUGE this year! This was my third (maybe fourth? Who can keep count...) year and it just keeps growing. In past years the kids' bouncies were set up in the middle of a big open area in that back (past the roller pigeons and kind of where the woman with all the bunnies and guinea...

DE helps keep the flies down around my little coop.

She would have to be spunky (okay, mean) with that ugly mug . Glad she holds her own though!

I hatched 3 silkies back in mid-Feb and one of them also had a huge vault. Seriously, HUGE! It was like there was a fat lima bean balancing on her head. I was really stressed for her because I figured her brain must be squeezed in really odd ways. Was it all up in the bean? Was part of it...

Glad you got an answer, and I can see why you thought she might be a Wellie--she looks just like a white-earlobed, lighter (weight) version of my Welsummer!

Little One is most certainly a boy. Sorry. As far as the rooster development question, I have had the same thing happen a couple of times. I hatch small batches of eggs (I have an R-com mini so I hatch 3-5 eggs at a time) and twice I've had three egg hatches where there was one obvious male...

No expert here, but those are pretty significant combs on all three of your Silkies. Are they showing any signs of sparring? I've got three 2 1/2 month-old silkie chooks and two of them have been play fighting since they were wee chickies. All three of mine have smaller combs than your lot...

I bet he meant to say 2 months old, not 2 weeks

Thanks folks! That's pretty much where I am at as well, Girl, Boy, Not Sure.

One of my babies, 2 days old And again at 7wks They grow up so fast...

This is our girl Peep She's a sweet thing, but she is definitely alpha chicken around here!