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    So I just tried a little yogurt for the first time with my birds...

    They didn't like it so I won't be doing that again...
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    Silkie thread!

    Here is a picture of one of the young ones that hatched in the first hatch of 7. He is a really light blue/grey with this shadowing of tan. He is about 13 weeks old. The darker picture has a shadow making him look a little darker. His mom is a blue, his dad is this same color with the shadow...
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    Silkie thread!

    Question...Does a porcelain look like a lighter blue with maybe a hint of red/tan feathers around the upper body? I have never branched out before but this is what it looks like. And the white one looks like an Idabel, it is like a white body with like a peachy tan discoloration around the...
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    Silkie thread!

    I am going to try to get some pictures in a day or two for you guys to tell me. I have always only had blue, black, white and splash but I lost all of my white and black ones.
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    Silkie thread!

    Well, I am starting all over again after losing several birds last year, then with being in school I just didn't have time for them. I had two blue hens left and a splash roo. I promised a little 4H girl last year that when I had chicks she could have some. I was truly beginning to sweat it...
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    So I just tried a little yogurt for the first time with my birds...

    Not sure how this is going to go but I gave them a few tablespoons in a bowl to see if they would eat it. I peeked from the window of the coop to watch and I only witnessed one brave soul trying it out. They flung it out of their beak so I put some grape tomatoes on the top of it to get them...
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    Is it good to feed chickens sunflower seeds everyday?

    I tend to feed mine a little more BOSS in the winter as well but not so much in the summer. My birds are always in their house, they have a 12' x 24' concrete block house with brick floors and one corner is dirt for dusting. They have a covered outside run as well but since they have hatched...
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    Pellets or Crumbles?

    I would take into consideration what breed you have as well. I have silkies and they do not do as well in my opinion on the pellets so I buy crumbles. I like the flock raiser from Nutrena or the Purina blue bag as well. I feel that the better brands my chickens waste less feed. The cheaper...
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    Deep litter method

    I have a concrete block chicken house that is probably 40 years old from the people who owned our farm before. I built some enclosed pens about 4'X6'X6' inside along one wall. We had a ton of used bricks that were piled up that I lined on the dirt floor to help keep the dust down and make...
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    Silkie thread!

    Ok question....picture #14... Light chick with dark spot on head and back near rump, what color is this? I have two chicks that are light blue with spots just like this! Splash hen, white roo=noooo clue...
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    Silkie thread!

    Can anyone tell me what colors you will get with a splash hen and white roo. There are a few chicks that are light blue with a black dot on their head and near their rump.
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    Silkie thread!

    They just need handled more. The more you do, the more docile they become.
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    Silkie thread!

    My husband tried several times to incubate eggs and would only get one or none to hatch. He finally figured out his thermometer was bad and after that, successful hatches!
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    Silkie thread!

    Yes they are...and I have two that if you get within two feet of them or their babies, they puff out and try their best to flog you! I was just trying to put new woodchips in their box one day and took the worst flogging from a hen I have ever witnessed. They are only aggressive when they have...
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    Silkie thread!

    LOL!!! I did the same thing! I haven't bought eggs in years and couldn't resist these! And I have no broody hens, which someone had better become broody by Monday...My other hens have just barely started laying this week so I was kind of hoping to have one sit on eggs rather than fire up my...
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