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    Rooster Chat

    How do you get a rooster to stop constantly mounting the hens? He's a really friendly SW but he keeps mounting the girls and tearing the feathers up on their backs. What should I do?
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    PLEASE HELP!!!!!

    One of my hens has a swollen eye and cant see out of it. Shes a BB and shes one of my sweetest chickens. Any advice on what to do? I tried to get pictures but she wouldnt stop moving. .
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    Charity Smith

    I'm looking for a silkie hen. The color doesnt matter anything will do. Im located in Westminster, MD. Please let me know if you have anything! Thanks. I have been looking all over and cant find a single thing.
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    Silkie Rooster

    I have a silkie rooster (black in color) and he chases the girls around. They squawk and run until my silver rooster comes and fights him. How d i get "little Daddy" to stop chasing the girls?
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    Silkies

    My silkie just started laying two weeks ago and shes 35 weeks old. If you have a silkie, Has she laid yet? if so how old is she? Is my silkie behind or is she just right for a silkie?
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    Who else is waiting for that first egg?

    We got our first silkie egg yesterday!! Hoping to come home to another one today.
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    Partridge rock lost weight

    Ok thank you. I will watch her closely this week.
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    Partridge rock lost weight

    The girls are 37 weeks old. We have been feeding them Purena layer formula. I don't have any pictures of her on my laptop yet but I will send some of her tomorrow. When she flew up to the roosts, I noticed that she lost about 7 feathers. They just fell out. Could she have mites?
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    Partridge rock lost weight

    My partridge rock (agnis) was average size last week. Just like edith (the other partridge rock). Today we noticed that agnis was very tiny. She was even smaller then the youngest girls. She runs around and eats grass and snacks like there's nothing wrong. Could she possibly be sick? She's the...
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    Introducing A Welsummer

    I would imagine so. It should be fine. The girls will just have to get used to a new hen.
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    egg laying

    If some of the chickens are eating the yolks, then I would suggest using golf balls...something they cant peck through. If they cant get them open, they will eventually stop trying.
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    egg laying

    Sometimes my new layers will lay their eggs off of the roosts because the eggs come as a surprise to them overnight or in the early morning. we got one today actually.... But even though I would like to have them lay in the boxes, a few girls that are new to laying havent yet. They will get the...
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    Laying Chickens

    It could take them a little while to get used to the new surroundings. They should start laying again soon
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    Egg laying and light for upcoming colder months

    The size and color of the eggs will vary until they get used to laying. They wont have a specific laying time for a while as they get used to their laying schedules.
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    Eating eggs from a newly laying hen.

    I don't wait. We eat all of the eggs with good shells that aren't rubbery.
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