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Well looks like my service/wifi is too slow to load them here at least I'll have them on my phone for tomorrow when I get to work

That's for all the welcomes. That's a pretty cool about the dna testing. But I've already got two crowing. I can go another month or so to know for sure. Anyone up in the northeast with young silkie hens for sale? Hehe. On it looks like I can post pictures straight from here using my...

Well the light in the coop didn't work. They were outside in their usual chicken ball, soaking wet in the pouring rain... anyone have any other ideas? 6 isn't bad but once I have 14 or so out there that'll be a pain in the but..

ya they have mostly , i guess the technical term would be a walnut combs which is kind of almond, bulbous shaped, which from my research is the silkie standard, even hens, but they do come in several types of combs. of the two that are definitely crowing, one has a bulbousy comb, but the...

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ya, fortunately for us they picked the far corner in the run from the coop, instead of a corner under the coop, sqeezing into 2 feet of space, thats got mud and chicken poop all over it wouldnt be fun. i got my chickens into their coop on april 5th. so we've done it almost two months, short...

Hi, thanks for the welcome, and the links, a couple of those were actually where i got the info to build a separate area where they could see each other but live separately. they seem to be inspecting each other quite a bit so i think itll work out ok. this way they have a chance to get a...

ive searched the forum but nothing comes up for me. so i have 6 chickens out in the coop so far 3 Rhode Island reds, and 3 barred rocks, all 5 months old. they refuse to go in for the night. we've even waited longer to see if we were just trying to put them to bed too early or something...

Hello All, I got my wife chickens for Christmas, and it has been a blast. we got the chickens in two "batches". First, the day after Christmas we got three Rhode island Reds, and three Barred Rocks. they were the cutest most lovable little chicks They were finally big enough to go outside in...