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    Silkie thread!

    Sorry, I'm a cheapy and don't have a working camera or an iPhone, so I can't provide good photos :( Maybe I'll try later with my iPad, but in the past I've had trouble uploading iPad photos to forums. Gah...
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    Silkie thread!

    Hi everyone! I have a silkie question since I'm a newish silkie owner. I have a black silkie hen who is about 10-12 months and laying. I noticed recently that below her earlobes (which are blue, as per normal silkies), she has something that looks like red-looking bite marks. They are on...
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    3-month old silkie pecking and shoving a broody silkie in nest box - cockerel behavior?

    Hi, I have a 3-month old silkie that always goes into the nest box of a broody silkie, right before they all go to sleep for the night, and pecks/shoves her and climbs all over her. Eventually he or she will leave my poor hen alone and go roost, but I was wondering if maybe this is rooster...
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    My hens can't get down from their roost on their own"

    Ok, thanks for the input! It's just odd since I've seen them get down by themselves...just not on their own initially, but I'm going to try to add a small ladder or another perch for them to jump off of. See if that makes it easier for them. This morning I threw some mealworms on the ground...
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    My hens can't get down from their roost on their own"

    Hi, My coop is 4' tall, 4' long and 3' wide, bought for my three new silkie pullets :)The first level roost is approximately 2' high, and the second and highest roost is about 3.5' off the ground. My silkies have no trouble reaching the top roost for nighttime but in the mornings they can't...
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    Completely New!

    Thanks all! My silkie hens feel like they are about 2 lbs, so they are bantam-sized. The links are much appreciated. We're located by a small man-made lake with billions of water fowls and their young occupying it so hopefully they keep the crows distracted. And even though everyone kept...
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    Completely New!

    Hi, I'm located in Huntington Beach, Ca and am completely new to backyard chicken raising! My family just adopted 3 silkie pullets and we are having so much fun watching them. We hope they lay soon, but since we got silkies we already know that we'd rather have them as pets than for egg...
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