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    First eggs!

    16 weeks in, we have the first two egg laying chickens! LuBu our Asian Black and Henny Penny our Speckled Sussex have given us eggs two days in a row. They’re beautiful! Now, I have decoy eggs in nest boxes but they’ve got a nest in a corner they built. Do I put a nest box where they made a...
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    Silkie attacking other chickens

    Thank you all!
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    Silkie attacking other chickens

    So, his temperament is wonderful with humans. So odd. He will sit on my lap and let me pet him, totally chill when I hold him, everything. But is being mean to some hens. I definitely can’t keep him, but should I rehome him? Or is he going to be awful in another flock and needs to meet his end...
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    Silkie attacking other chickens

    16 weeks.
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    Silkie attacking other chickens

    That was our theory. I’m in denial!! I just don’t want it to be a rooster.
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    Rain = deworming again; Must Rotate with valbazen?

    I hear feeding them tomatoes also helps with the worms.
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    Silkie attacking other chickens

    I have a Silkie in a mixed flock. It has been very caring and motherly to all the chicks it was raised with. One of our two straight run chicks was a rooster, so he and his favorite hen went to live on a real farm. I live in suburbs, I can’t have roosters. Suddenly my motherly wonderful Silkie...
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    Behavior changes after rehoming part of flock?

    I wonder how common this is. I have a Silkie, it has been very caring and motherly to all the chicks it was raised with. One of our two straight run chicks was a rooster, so he and his favorite hen went to live on a real farm. I live in suburbs, I can’t have roosters. Suddenly my motherly...
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    One early spring day...

    Here’s a better coop photo!
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    One early spring day...

    Thank you all so much!! For taking the time to read our story and for replying with such warm welcome. I of course obsessively takes pictures of the fluffy babies so I’ll try not to post a million. Here’s a few... One is Hubby siding the coop, many aspects of it still in progress. The next is...
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    One early spring day...

    One early spring day our little family went to a pet store for worms for our Beardie and saw chickens. We fell in love and grabbed one. We knew nothing except that they need a coop and can’t be alone. So we got our brooder set up, got a bunch more chicks, and built a fortress of a coop! Now, we...
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