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    Commercial breeds after 80 weeks

    How many eggs will commercial chicken breeds lay after the prescribed 80 weeks? Breeds like Hyline silver browns and lohmann browns They have an 85% lay rate from 18 to 80 weeks. Will they produce 80% of the amount of eggs laid in the first year in the second year, that is commonly said for...
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    Are these pure silkies ?

    Single comb is recessive in silkies and does occur fairly frequently according to several threads I've read 5 toes on both of them
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    Are these pure silkies ?

    I bought these 2 chicks for R50 each ($2.74) and I'm wondering if they are pure silkies. They look a little off, compared to the previous 4 silkie chicks I bought Can anyone tell : 1) if they are pure silkies and 2) roughly how old they are I suspect they are both males based on their comb...
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    Silkies

    Yeah, the color is definitely not buff . Now that I've googled it, I see that buff is basically orange brown. When I google 'partridge silkie' I do see some that resemble mine. It's basically caramel colored feathers mixed with black/dark brown . I wouldnt say grey though. They may give that...
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    Silkies

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/4-week-old-silkies-gender.1544344/#post-26068856 The chicks in this thread both turned out female. The white one became lame and had to be put down (rooster, 4 weeks older than it, most likely tried mating with it and hurt it) . I am 100 percent sure...
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    4 week old silkies gender

    Both turned out to be hens. Well the white one broke its leg and became lame. I had to put it down. Just got my first egg from the buff one on Tuesday
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    How much do you pay for feed??

    Here in South Africa I pay R300 for 40kg of layer pellets. That works out to R7.50/kg or $0.2/ pound
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    How much is too much ? (Greens)

    How much greens could I include in a chickens diet without affecting laying ? I grew sprouting broccoli and romanesco cauliflower this year and after harvesting them I'm left with a whole lot of leaves. The leaves and leaf stems are edible but my mom can't use it all in cooking (i have kale...
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    4 week old silkies gender

    The buff one's comb looks a little more pronounced in the picture than it actually is
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    4 week old silkies gender

    Thanks, not sure why my text is appearing like a tagged response text. I typed it, must of clicked something wrong
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    4 week old silkies gender

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    Safe to eat potentially sick chicken ?

    100% sure she hasn't layed by observing the hens every single day and at some point only had her and the other layer in the same coop. I pretty much saw the other hen lay every single day. Coop is super dry , covered with a IBR roof and we have only gotten rain recently. The run is dry soil
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    Safe to eat potentially sick chicken ?

    I have a 10 month old hen that hasn't layed a single egg. Two other chickens from the same batch started laying at 7 months old. So it's been 3 months since I expected her to lay but she hasn't She had a cough/sneeze in winter before the others started laying. Not sure what it was but I didn't...
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    How much do Australorp chicks eat ?

    I have 8 chicks that are currently with a broody hen and I am trying to figure out how much they eat. The mother hen also eats their feed and there isn't anything I can do to ensure she does not eat the food while still allowing the chicks to. I very much so doubt that she is eating the usual...
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    "Baby chicks" or "chicks"

    I don't know if this is the right topic to post this in, but I didn't see any other that seemed suitable Over the past couple of weeks I would Google things related to my day old chicks, and very often I would just use the word "chick" when searching. However I realised that I kept turning up...
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