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    Pet Silkie rooster and silkie egg layer need to be rehomed

    Need to rehome our two pet silkie chickens they need to be together as a pair anyone who would like them or knows anyone who would want pet chickens I will give them for free they aren’t your average chickens they are silkies. I have a silkie chicken hen egg layer will be two years old in...
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    Silkie rooster needs to be rehomed asap!

    I have been having a hard time finding a good home that is able to have roosters and willing to take him as one of their own he is splash silkie rooster named Charlie. Reason is due to rules in Dedham no roosters
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    Something got in the coop and ate one silkie chicken and badly injured another one

    Im going to look into that I only have 3 silkies left two hens and the rooster. Do you have any recommendations on a game cam ?
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    Something got in the coop and ate one silkie chicken and badly injured another one

    And also for the most part I do let them in the run only but so many animals had dug into the coop I’ve seen a skunk and opossum before so anything can really just make it’s way in the coop no matter what I was thinking to put some kind of traps around but I don’t want anything like rabbits...
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    Something got in the coop and ate one silkie chicken and badly injured another one

    No I opened there door at 430 but they didn’t come out until 530 one of the two roosters he is the alpha one he was crowing as usual inside the nesting area I have a feeling what ever it was heard it and came for them I believe it could of been a raccoon but I’ve never seen any whatsoever in my...
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    Something got in the coop and ate one silkie chicken and badly injured another one

    Thanks for the advise I actually did have hibiclens i did use it after I tried to clean more dirt off him and had to rinse off the cornstarch that I heard helps the bleeding to stop, he seemed very calm through out everything what he went through poor thing must of been in so much pain but Thank...
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    Help! Silkie chickens one dead and one badly injured !!

    This morning around 4 am let my silkies out of their nesting area as you can see it has a small door on one side of the coop for them to free range and have more space most of the time they freely roam our yard but lately we have been seeing lots of hawk and skunks and as well opossums lurking...
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    Something got in the coop and ate one silkie chicken and badly injured another one

    This morning around 4 am let my silkies out of their nesting area as you can see it has a small door on one side of the coop for them to free range and have more space most of the time they freely roam our yard but lately we have been seeing lots of hawk and skunks and as well opossums lurking...
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    8 month old Silkies male or female or are both females?

    Yes they are tricky last month people told me the one with the large comb is definitely a cockerel it is more friendlier which I heard cockerels tend to be less frightened and more friendly
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    8 month old Silkies male or female or are both females?

    Yes these are the only two I have I usually get 1 to 2 eggs a day as of Tuesday there’s 3 eggs there’s two nesting boxes but they always sit in one box together i don’t know if that means anything
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    8 month old Silkies male or female or are both females?

    About 8 months old I’ve been told one is definitely male and the other female I’ve been incubating some eggs since March to see if any of them are fertile and haven’t had any of them fertile. I have cracked a few before incubation and noticed that some are fertilized but I haven’t had any luck...
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    sexing silkies 7 months old

    Haha Okay thanks !!!
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    sexing silkies 7 months old

    Do you mean they are both pullets ?
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