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    urgent—baby chick question

    Hey everyone, We have a chick that hatched a few days early. She’s a Buff Orpington/Silkie cross. The other eggs passed candling tests, so we expect them to hatch, but in the meantime, our current early-bird is distressed. I’m going to call local farm stores to see if they have chicks in the...
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    Questions about incubating eggs

    Hello everyone! :) My Silkie rooster is 6 months old and seems to be ahead of the curve in terms of physical maturity (he started crowing at 6 weeks and started trying to mount the hens pretty early, too). His sister started laying eggs, so I assume he’s also reached sexual maturity. We were...
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    Noticed odd eye color in my silkie chick—could it be Ocular Marek’s disease?

    I think so :D
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    Buff Orpington Hen Limping

    Hey y'all! Long time no post. I hope everyone's doing well! So, I have a flock of six chickens. There are four buff Orpington hens, one silkie pullet, and one silkie cockerel. It seems that all of our hens have started laying at about 6.5 months (we assume so at least, as we get about four eggs...
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    What could’ve hurt my pullet?

    Thank you for your comment!! I'm happy to report that she's totally fine now. Part of her comb is missing, but she's otherwise totally okay.
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    Noticed odd eye color in my silkie chick—could it be Ocular Marek’s disease?

    His eye has continued to change color; the ration of brown to light is the same, but the other half is now a deep orange. I don't think it's an injury, I think he's just got heterochromia :) I'll post pictures sometime.
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    What could’ve hurt my pullet?

    Hey everyone, I have six backyard chickens; one silkie pullet and one silkie cockerel (3 months) and four buff Orpington pullets (6 months). Last week, we noticed that one of our pullets, Henny Penny, had blood at the back of her comb and on her surrounding head feathers. My silkie cockerel can...
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    Is my cockerel trying to assert dominance?

    I should’ve clarified that he wasn’t entirely upside down, and it wasn’t for long, but thank you for the advice :) Also I’ve carried him around a lot, he’s the easiest to hold , as in he doesn’t struggle or fuss.
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    Is my cockerel trying to assert dominance?

    Hey everyone! I have some questions about my cockerel’s behavior that i was hoping someone might be able to help with :) My silkie chicken, Spark, is 3.5 months old. He started displaying signs of being a rooster quite early, and he’s wasted no time taking charge of the flock, even though he’s...
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    Introducing young chicks to flock?

    It’s going well! The hens all stopped trying to fight our roo, and he thinks of them as his ladies now!
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    Introducing young chicks to flock?

    Hey guys! I’m back posting about my kooky silkie roo again! Spark is a 9 week old silkie cockerel, and Fern is a 9 week old silkie pullet. They’re getting bigger, and I know in a couple of weeks we’re going to start having to house them in the coop. I have four 5-month old Buff Orpington...
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    Spark, the Silkie chick :)

    Thank you so much!!!! He was investigating the camera while I was picking up Fern haha.
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    Likelihood of my silkie being a roo? How can I raise a gentle roo?

    I just posted a new thread with lots of pictures of him :D Moe sounds like he was such a sweet rooster! And his costume sounds like it was absolutely adorable. Thank you for sharing!!
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    Spark, the Silkie chick :)

    Hey y’all!! I’ve talked a bit about Spark on here before, but I wanted to post some pictures of him as he’s grown up :) he was born this past November, around the 10th, so he’s roughly two months old. We recently found out he’s a baby roo, as he started crowing and his spur buds are starting to...
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    Likelihood of my silkie being a roo? How can I raise a gentle roo?

    Thank you so much for the well wishes!! He is definitely a rooster as he’s already started crowing. He’s gotten a little more frenetic, too, though, as in running around and knocking stuff over, even when he has enough space, lol. Luckily he still is very docile when being held, and he was...
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