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    Cockerels or pullets?

    Such a bummer. I wonder why the sex-linking didn’t work. :( This is the 2nd batch of OEs that all turned out to be boys for me.
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    Cockerels or pullets?

    I got 4 sex-linked olive eggers this year that were supposed to be hens. I suspect BCM x One turned out to be a cockerel, but he looked different than the rest at 3 days old with a little white spot on his head. He was barred and made his gender known by 6-8 weeks old with his crowing. Now all 3...
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    What to feed worms vs chickens?

    Good point. I wonder how often I’d have to add it to the worm bin. I use deep litter method now so I haven’t scooped out any bedding / poop in 3 years
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    What to feed worms vs chickens?

    Thanks for the advice on the BSF larvae. I looked into it, and I’m not sure I can handle looking at them and knowing they’re around. 😂 I can see how I could reframe giving scraps to the worms as ultimately a better use than giving them straight to the chickens. Plus, they could compost down my...
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    What to feed worms vs chickens?

    My chickens are my great lovable garbage disposals who give me eggs. Every morning, I bring them scraps: kitchen scraps, left overs, food too “old” to eat from the fridge, etc. They love it all and devour it up in no time flat. (They have access to chicken feed, too.) We also dump almost all...
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    Malfunctioning heating plate?

    I did. There was a little poop streak on her butt, but not occluding her vent
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    Malfunctioning heating plate?

    I just lost 2 baby chicks of 4. My first chick seemed to have something wrong with its vent (looked wrong), chirped off and on even when I made it super warm, and died at 3 days old. My second chick just died over night! It was of the same type as the first chick that died, and it always seemed...
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    Head infection?

    I found one of my silkies looking like this tonight. Is her comb infected? Not sure what to do now. She is about 7 months old, and used to have a giant bouffant.
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    Laying eggs at night?

    Yes, just started laying about 2 weeks ago
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    Laying eggs at night?

    We don’t have a light in the coop, and all the exterior lights on my house are pointed away / the obstructed from the coop. There is a blinking green light on the automatic door for the coop that blinks every few seconds. Looks like the moon was at 80%. It was cloudy & drizzle this morning...
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    Laying eggs at night?

    Has anyone see chickens lay eggs at night? I check on my chickens in the evening because one of my silkies likes to roost in a nesting box, and I stick her in a roost every night. I check for eggs at the same time, and I gathered the 2 eggs I saw. This morning, I went to check on the chickens...
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    No eggs after shell-less egg? Should I be worried?

    Thanks for the article! I may check my chickens next time I can visit during the day. I’ve run around my backyard and don’t see any nests, but I’ll keep looking! I do have fake eggs in 2 of the nesting boxes, which convinced my BC Marans to move from under a bush into the nesting boxes
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    No eggs after shell-less egg? Should I be worried?

    Out of my 10 chickens, hatched in April and July, only 1 has been laying eggs, a black copper Marans. She’s been laying in a nesting box consistently. It had slowed down to every 2-3 days, and about 2 weeks ago, we suddenly had a much larger, nearly shellless pale brown egg on the floor of the...
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    Help me sex my silkie

    Looks like consensus so far is that she’s a pullet! I really hope so! <3 Ty for the responses!
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    Help me sex my silkie

    Thanks for your rrap Ok. I went out to get pictures today. The chicken in question is 16 weeks today. (Original pictures taken a few weeks ago.) This was the best I could get b/c my youngest chickens kept running away from the older chicken who follow me around the yard. 😂 one is trying to get...
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