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    Wat sex are these silkies

    I'm not sure how to quote on the exact photo. there is one eating from a feeder, in both photos eating from feeder looks like a roo. might be the same roo actually. the others look very female. i just had a batch and at 4 weeks there was no doubt who was roo but some are late bloomers and if...
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    Wat sex are these silkies

    last two photos look roo, first two, hen
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    One lonely baby incubator chick and a broody with a hatch due in next 2 days

    Yes lots of ifs. Thank you for that advice. I had been checking frequently and removing eggs, but this one got the slip on me, and it looks a couple weeks, so I just was not thorough enough! So if the silkie eggs are due in 2-3 days, would you still slip a day old under her tonight? Or might...
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    One lonely baby incubator chick and a broody with a hatch due in next 2 days

    I had an incubator hatch going and only one of five hatched. The last one, is viable, but appears days behind the lonely chick i have now, a day old. Concurrently i have a silkie, one time mother to one, but broody all the time and losing her eggs always. So she's currently on two wood eggs...
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    Puffy/Inflated chest/breast/belly

    I just wanted to renew this post and share what was just a really rough 5 days to help someone else through this issue. I knew nothing of sour crop/impacted crop before I finally had one, i think it was the shavings for the baby chicks that started it all, and I learned a mountain from you...
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    This Polish is confusing me!

    what were they?
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    Hola! American expat in Paraguay living the backyard chicken dream

    Hi I'm Laurel! Moved to S. America 9 years ago and immediately drilled a well and built a chicken coop inside city limits b/c you can do that sort of thing here! Started with your basic golden comets, which cost less than a dollar here. Went through two sets of those guys before branchign out...
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