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    showgirl with injured neck

    Hello I have a young Show Girl slikie pullet that I found this morning with the skin on the back of her neck cut from a rooster breeding her. I have put her in the house in a hospital cage I threw together. I let her warm up before I treated her wound. I rinsed it out with water and then...
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    Consolidated Kansas

    Hi, I am looking to extend my flock of Silkies....I need more hens or pullets but I can take my chances with younger birds and grow them out. I live in the Wichita area but am able to travel if needed. If anyone can help me out...lemme know. Lisa
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    Consolidated Kansas

    lol..I also went to the Mulvane Swap Meet and was able to pick up a pair of white silkies and a partridge hen..Ithink I did good this morning.
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    Consolidated Kansas

    Hi All, I took advantage of the nice day and let the chickies forage in the front yard this afternoon. Lots of scratching, flapping, eating, crowing and other fun chicken type activities abounded. My oldest pullet(6 months old) has been laying for about 2 weeks now!! Yay!, fresh eggs!! If...
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    people with house chickens

    Hi All, I took advantage of the nice day and let the chickies forage in the front yard this afternoon. Lots of scratching, flapping, eating, crowing and other fun chicken type activities abounded. My oldest pullet(6 months old) has been laying for about 2 weeks now!! Yay!, fresh eggs!!
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    10 week old silkies, what sex?

    I would say that for now they are both pullets. I don't see any reddening of the faces, wattle development or any really noticeable combs.
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    New to owning Silkies have some questions....

    I have a four silkie chicks that are 5 weeks old.....I think I already have a little boy on my hands..He has a noticable comb and wattles and is a bit bigger than the other three...they have no comb or wattle development...I'll try to get some more pics soon. But this is the most recent pic i...
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    people with house chickens

    We had an interesting day... My white 4 week old silkie chick had an accident..she lost the tip of her longest toe on her left foot. My daughter and her friend was bringing the four 4 week old chicks and the 2 18 week old silkies in the house...her friend had the babies in a milk crate and...
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    What is this chicken thinking?

    Here is one of my new Silkie chicks...what going thru her little mind ???
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    people with house chickens

    Hi All, I picked up 4 day old silkie chicks Wednesday, 3 partridge and 1 white one. They are sooo stinkin cute! chick 1 chick 2 chick 3 feeding frenzy chick 4...
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    people with house chickens

    Hi All, I just got my Hen Holsters chicken diapers today for my 3 silkies. I swear it was like they forgot how to sit,walk and lay down.......unhappy puddles of fluff all over.....fluffy land mines . I will put them on the birds for a while each day until they get used to them. I am not...
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    Consolidated Kansas

    Hi All, I got my silkie's on Thanksgiving Day they were 2 weeks old....so they are now 18 weeks old. There is a blue and a splash that due to how they act and how they are feathering out I am hoping are going to be hens..but no eggs yet. The black one is a cockerel..he started crowing last...
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    Consolidated Kansas

    cailynne Location: wichita ks Joined: 11/2013 Posts: 16 offline Hi All, I decided to expand my 3 silkie's outside run today...they had a smaller 5' x 5' x 3' run built out of pvc. I built them a 10' x10' x 10' pvc run and added the old one to make a door and sort of a holding type...
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    people with house chickens

    Hi All, I decided to expand my 3 silkie's outside run today...they had a smaller 5' x 5' x 3' run built out of pvc. I built them a 10' x10' x 10' pvc run and added the old one to make a door and sort of a holding type area. One side is part of the chain link fence. I still have to finish the...
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    Silkie babies and drip waterer....

    If you can go to wal- mart and get some poly-visol WITHOUT iron that can be a good thing to get any vitamins that your chickies may lack into them..i used it on a previous batch of silkies who had some wry neck and suspected maerrik's disease( bad spelling) with a few of them...i lost 2 of the 5...
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