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    What to do about the roos?!? LOTS of ?'s.

    Hello, We know very little about chickens in general but have been reading and trying to soak in so much on this site! We had a nice year with our 5 hens. We love getting the fresh eggs daily and our small children couldn't get enough of carrying one of our two silkies around in a basket. We...
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    Road trip for 12 day olds w/ mom TOMORROW ????

    We are home from our roadtrip! It went really well (from my perspective, I'm sure the chicks are happy to be back home!). It made it a lot easier that there were several adults to monitor the kids. One thing that might have made it easier is the mama is a silkie that we have always held...
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    Chicks and other chickens

    That's so sad. I'm sorry about the one you lost. We don't have a run, during the day our chickens are free range so when the hens we have now were babies we would take them outside in a dog carrier (a metal one with a slide out tray on the bottom) and let them scratch at the ground and get...
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    Road trip for 12 day olds w/ mom TOMORROW ????

    Thank you all for your thoughts and your time!
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    Road trip for 12 day olds w/ mom TOMORROW ????

    For those of you who think it's a bad idea, can you tell me what your concerns are? They will be there just during the school day, 9-1 and then come home with us.
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    Road trip for 12 day olds w/ mom TOMORROW ????

    Feel free to tell me this is a really bad idea but also, please tell me anything I can do to make it better for them. I rarely have to bring my oldest daughter to Kindergarten but I have to tomorrow. I though it would be a nice surpise to bring the new mom and her babies into the class room -...
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    silkie x wyandotte - PICS!

    Thanks. There are 4 all together and they all look pretty much the same. Hoping for all or mostly females! I have a heat lamp on them because it's been in the low 30's here at night. The silkie was sitting on 9 full size eggs and couldn't keep them all covered and was giving up after 3...
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    silkie x wyandotte - PICS!

    Dad Mom Babies @ 1 week Mom #2 (she's done all the work since the day the eggs were laid) Not a great picture under the red heat lamp but she's a white silkie
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    Embarassing rooster question...

    IF only I had seen this post a month ago! Well then we wouldn't have our 4 adorable silkie x wyandotte babies! We have one roo who is a silkie. I have seen him many times on the backs of (literally) our hens and thought it was just because he was too small to "do it right"!!! I had no idea...
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    Chicks and other chickens

    That's a funny story. I love stories about animals doing the opposite of what we think should happen. My chickens chase my cats off all the time!
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    Chicks and other chickens

    I've learned a lot by reading these boards! I have 4 chicks that are a week old now. They are with their mom (actually a silkie who hatched them, but they weren't her eggs!) in a secure area but I can tell the mom really wants to come out of confinement. I'm afraid to leave the door open...
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    silkie x wyandotte - multiple ?'s

    Hello - We recently had a silkie hatch some eggs that were from our Gold laced Wyandotte, the only rooster we have is a black silkie bantam. There are 4 chicks and at 1 week old all look the same except one has black legs and the others have light colored legs. They are yellow with really...
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    silkie x wyandotte

    Hello - We recently had a silkie hatch some eggs that were from our Gold laced Wyandotte, the only rooster we have is a black silkie bantam. There are 4 chicks and at 1 week old all look the same except one has black legs and the others have light colored legs. They are yellow with really...
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    Total newbie ? re: mating

    Oh so they're like the rest of us?!? Sorry for this next question but the hen is at the mercy of the rooster right? She doesn't have to "be in the mood" right? Even though our rooster is a very cute fluffy boy he is very aggresive with our small children. Our older daughter takes a firm...
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    Total newbie ? re: mating

    Hello - Do chickens have "seasons" or if at anytime a rooster is left alone with a hen can you assume her upcoming eggs will be fertile? More info. in case it's needed: About 9 months ago we got 5 chicks just to raise for eggs and then 2 silkies because we thought they were cute. In the...
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