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Black sex link?
The black is supposed to be sex link female- Piepie
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- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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Black sex link?
😭😭😭😭😭If the barred rock is a rooster I'll be so mad. Sold to me as pullet and I really want a barred rock- Piepie
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- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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Black sex link?
What breed/gender do we think these all are? Supposed to be all pullets...barred rock, Easter egger, olive egger, and black sex link. Jw if y'all see the same :)- Piepie
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Adding new chickens
I have 5 chickens, two are silkies and the others are Easter eggers. One rooster of each kind. 13 weeks old. I know that isn't nearly enough hens so I'm picking up 4-6 more ee hens this weekend and from another person I'm getting 2 silkie laying hens. I plan to separate the silkies into a...- Piepie
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- chicken coop intros rooster
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- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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Sexing month old silkies and EE
We are sure one of the darker ee is a boy now. He tried to crow a few times and is getting spurs. I'm wondering if in light of this I need to get a few more females? I only have two other ee and then the two silkies of which I think one is a boy (I have read silkies can't mate with other...- Piepie
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Sexing month old silkies and EE
Hi everyone! First time chicken mom here. Two silkies, three Easter eggers, coming up on five weeks old. We think we have one silkie roo and one ee roo, but what do y'all think? Also here for any and all advice you can give on keeping silkies and EE together 🥰- Piepie
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Transitioning to outside
My closest big city is Charlotte :) so thankfully no damage here from the storm. It was warm the past few days but the highs will be in the 60s and lows in 40s this week and like 38 for a low one night. If you have your ducks inside during winter and they're older do you just keep them in the... -
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Transitioning to outside
Hi everyone, my ducklings are two weeks old now. I know they'll be inside until 8-9 weeks but I'm wondering if I should start taking them out for a few hours each day to get them used to the temperature? They will be old enough to go outside at the end of November/start of December so I'm... -
Show me your set-up!?
They'll need to be in a run bc I have three dogs but one is a great Pyrenees so I'm hoping she will look out for them. They have all been introduced and only one seems to care about the ducks so far but I still worry. I've never seen a fox around here but have seen a raccoon here and there. I'm... -
Show me your set-up!?
My ducklings won't be big enough to go outside for two more months but I have no idea what I want to do/build/buy for their coop. Send all the ideas!:) -
Is this ok?
It's the tractor supply brand one with feet they can go on three settings but the tallest setting seemed too short for them. I'm going to put it up on some blocks of wood. It has two settings brooder or heater -
Is this ok?
Sometimes they are. I had it down in brooder mode but it was so short they couldn't really fit under