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    silkie sexing

    Five and a half months old (21-22 weeks) white silkie bantam from MyPetChicken. No crowing, but noisy clucking and will do the crouch/squat thing that my other hens do for roosters. However, she/he is best buddies with my rooster and they never go anywhere without each other.
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    silkie sexing

    17 week old (almost 18) white silkie. Very loud but no crowing. Doesn't strut or walk with head held high like a rooster, comb is almost nonexistent but is light purple and has a tiny but barely raised bump. Likes to cuddle with the rooster and the other pullets. He is a messy eater when I give...
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    silkie sexing

    This silkie is 11 weeks old in these photos, and she/he is 14 weeks old today. There hasn't been any real change. These photos are from today (this silkie is not fond of posing for the camera) The only slight difference is that the place where the comb would be (it's...
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    silkie sexing

    The blue earlobe color as nothing to do with whether or not the birds are "blue." Silkies regardless of feather color/phenotype have this blue earlobe. Blue silkies are a dark grey color, they're not actually blue but they are a cool tone deeper grey. Because the blue phenotype does not breed...
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    silkie sexing

    Some more photos from last week I found
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    silkie sexing

    I have a 11 week old Silkie from MPC. Sexed female but I'm well aware I've got the same chance of her being a cockerel if I had ordered straight run chicks. She's small (lol, obviously) and a little shy compared to the rest of the chicks that she has grown up with who are her age, and she gets...
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    Illinois traders!!!!

    I'm looking for an Easter egger or ameracauna hen or pullet. I have pullets and a cockerel that are around 9-10 weeks old and a spacious coop. I am north of Chicago.
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    PLEASE help. 7 wk old chick twisting and stretching neck

    She hasn't done the head twisting thing this morning and after work I will check on her again but still worried about Marek's, a respiratory problem, or gape worm. She's not gasping or opening her mouth like she's yawning but she was moving and stretching her neck out quite a lot and moving her...
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    PLEASE help. 7 wk old chick twisting and stretching neck

    She also isn't opening her mouth or wheezing when she breeathes
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    PLEASE help. 7 wk old chick twisting and stretching neck

    My seven week old salmon Faverolle mix is acting lethargic, is stretching her neck and twisting it in circular motions, has a little croak/deep sounding noise after peeping. Worried she might have Marek's. no balance problems but her wings are lowered a little. She was ordered from MPC as a...
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    Lavender (self-blue) silkies

    All still looking like roosters?
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    ISO Colorful Egg Laying Hens/Pullets In RI/MA/CT area

    Looking for any laying hens/pullets that would give me a nice mix of browns, blues/greens, whites, creams, and pale browns. Wanting to get about 15-20. Also would love to get some silkie pullets/hens to hatch some eggs with. Live in South Coast (RI/MA area) and I am willing to drive a bit (1-1.5...
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    Not sure my pullets are pullets...

    What do you mean by failure to thrive? Did both die or get sick easily? I'm really hoping mine doesn't have any health issues if that's what you mean. Definitely contacting the hatchery about this bird because this isn't a salmon Faverolle and I'd like them to tell me what it could be, then. Did...
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    Not sure my pullets are pullets...

    Went snooping around the Faverolle thread and this looks EXACTLY like sammi: members said she was a poorly colored hatchery faverolle but the owner said she didn't know which hatchery she's from because she got her at a feed store.
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    Not sure my pullets are pullets...

    I just looked at the favacaunas on MPC.com. They used to offer a wheaten fava but that's been discontinued, and although those look similar to what Sammi looked like as a little chick, she's feathering out darker than the female wheatens do. The only other fava they have is a blue, and I'm...
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