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Okay we have a small wooden box that we put in the coop during the summer in hopes that the silkies would lay eggs in there not just wherever. Since the weather has gotten cold our one silkie barely leaves the coop. She sits in that box all the time. When we open the door to the run she comes...

When is it okay to add diatomaciuos earth to food or to dust chicks? Oops meant DE not DR stupid auto correct.

I think our Rouen duck is laying now!

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Okay we just got 2 Serama chicks. I would like to eventually introduce the to our other chickens.we have 3 Isas, 3 Silkies, a pair of Rouen ducks, a 10 week old EE and a 10 week old RR. Our coop is 4'x8' with half of it has a second floor. Our run is 8'x16' and we plan on putting up plastic for...

We had a pair of silkies and one of them had so many feathers on its head I was sure it could not see. As they grew that one remained smaller. Last week I we unfortunately lost our bigger on in a hail storm. The smaller one was all alone and really depended on the bigger one to get by. Well...

I have 3 Is a browns and 3 silkies. None of them ever go to roost. They are all about 5 months old. I have put them on the roost and they just keep jumping off. I have a few perches in the run and they will jump up there but it's only to come see me. If I walk away they jump down. Should I keep...

This past weekend we got 2 new chicks. I would say maybe 12 weeks old and a silkie that's maybe around 20 or a little more. We have 3 Is a browns and 2 other silkies and a male and female Rouen duck. I tried putting the new girls in at night like I heard to do but it's not working the Isa's are...

We had the very same problem we just kept at it every night. Sometimes we would shake a coffee can of scratch and give them a little treat before bed. It took awhile but slowly they got it. Our silkies were the last to figure it out. We had to put them up on the ramp and basically show them how...

7 in one week. Last Wednesday no eggs, today 2. I wonder if one of the other girls started.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/891321/chicken-novice Here is my link.

Got our very first egg today. Just now. One of our Isa's, we think Peglet.

Fresh out of the box here is our first egg!

Last night was the first night that they all went in on their own.

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