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    Can anyone tell if these silkies are roosters?

    We think we have 3 possibly 4 silkie roosters. All of our silkie hens ended up with nice rounded poofs of hair on top and all the roosters seemed to have had spiky hair like these guys. We live in San Diego so we can not have roosters. One of them is crowing and we can not tell who. So now we...
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    Guess the Silkie Sex?

    We have 6 silkie chicks that are 6 weeks old now and ALL have spiky feathers sticking up on their heads just like the ones you have in the photos above. We are worries that this is a sign that they may be roosters since ALL our other silkies that are hens had vaulted skulls and rounded heads...
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    Please tell me if I'm right 2 hens and a roo??? SILKIES

    We have 6 silkie chicks that are 6 weeks old now and ALL have spiky feathers sticking up on their heads. We are worries that this is a sign that they may be roosters since ALL our other silkies that are hens had vaulted skulls and rounded heads. Does anyone know about this?? I know it is very...
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    Can't tell if Silkie Chicks are hens or roosters.

    We have 6 silkie chicks that are 6 weeks old now and ALL have spiky feathers sticking up on their heads. We are worries that this is a sign that they may be roosters since ALL our other silkies that are hens had vaulted skulls and rounded heads. Does anyone know about this?? I know it is very...
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    Help! Sexing cross silkie chicks by their feet????

    We have 6 silkie chicks that are 6 weeks old now and ALL have spiky feathers sticking up on their heads. We are worries that this is a sign that they may be roosters since ALL our other silkies that are hens had vaulted skulls and rounded heads. Does anyone know about this?? Thank you!
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    Sand vs. Deep litter. Let's solve this

    Yes I would like to know too! What kind of sand is best that does not get hard and packed when wet?? Part of our run is covered and part open so I am afraid when it rains the sand will get nasty and wet and will take forever to dry. I heard river sand and washed sand but someone said washed sand...
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    Got sand? You should!

    Hi All- Do you guys recommend using sand only in the run, or in the coop and run? Also do you find that when it rains the sand in the run takes forever to dry out??? I know pine shaving in the run after a rain is pretty nasty. Half of our run is covered half open but when it rains it gets in...
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    Coop built on Skids

    Hello- How did you build that roof?? It looks great. We are designing our coop/shed and we are totally stuck on the roof. It seems so hard! We thought maybe a slanted roof?? 6" high on the left and 7" high on the right. Very confused from there on out. Looking at how to build a slanted roof on...
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    Might chickens eat tarpaper(construction paper)?

    Ferry Creek- Did the chickens ever peck at the tar paper? We were going to tar paper for waterproofing and not cover it. Was curious the outcome. Thanks!
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    Wry Neck!!! HELP

    My 2week old chick just got this wry neck this morning. I feel terrible. The chick just hangs its head and tries to lift it but goes right back to hanging. I got the poly vit drops but they have iron as a stabilizer for the other ingredients the pharmacist said. Is this bad it has iron. Also I...
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    How do I know if my coop is ventilated?

    Sorry I live in San Diego. So the very lowest it gets here at night is 30 degrees. Sometimes we get tons of rain, sometimes none. Mommy to wee ones, when you say you used 4 mil plastic is that just a really thick plastic?? Do the chickens ever peck at that? Now did you just staple that onto the...
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    How do I know if my coop is ventilated?

    Hi there- Hoping someone with silkies will have good advice for these questions. We have 12 silkie chicks. 5 are outside now the rest are indoors still. We have built a 8x6 run for them and now we are working on the house/coop. It will be 8x4x6. We are using plywood that is 1/2 i believe. This...
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    need help! how much pen room do 6 silkie chickens need? plz answer!

    So we have built a chicken run and we surprised ourselves it actually looks rather nice. We have decided to go ahead and build our silkies a house/coop next to the run. My boyfriend and I are in disagreement about how big the house/coop should be. We have 12 silkies total. They are babies now...
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    need help! how much pen room do 6 silkie chickens need? plz answer!

    Thank you madsenaccord for your response and for you photo. I think we will leave the 8x5x6 structure as the run only. We just purchased a chicken coop/little chicken house with perch and nesting box off of Amazon and we will put that in our greenhouse and just keep the greenhouse windows open...
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    need help! how much pen room do 6 silkie chickens need? plz answer!

    Hello- We recently got 7 Silkie Chicks. They will be ready to go outside soon so we are preparing there house. We are building a 6x8 house. It will be 8ft. long 6 ft. high and 5ft. wide. We were thinking of using the back half as the house/coop and the front part as the run. We will let them...
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