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    Help Sexing 4 wk Old GLW and SIlkies

    Thanks for your thoughts! :)
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    Help Sexing 4 wk Old GLW and SIlkies

    Hey! Our three chicks are almost 4 weeks old and unsexed. Any guesses would help as we're urban dwellers and can't keep roos! Chicks 1 (a silkie) and 3 (a gold laced wyandotte) are considerably bigger than Chick 2 (a silkie) and have been from birth. All are pretty similar in temperament...
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    26 weeks today and not laying yet.

    Our silkie bantam took about that long too!
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    How Many Chicken Owners Live in Urban Neighborhoods?

    As of June, I live in a duplex on a 500 sqm block! We keep our flock limited to bantam hens and keep them in a pen in the centre of the yard, so that they are as far from the neighbours as possible. We are diligent about keeping the area neat and bought a pretty coop so that it isn't an eyesore...
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    Chicken has one eye closed

    That's how the infection that spread through my flock started! After a few birds started to act the same, I went to a vet, who was perplexed because there were no other symptoms and apparently infections affecting just the eye aren't very common in chickens. He gave medicated eyedrops (the same...
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    Hello from Western Australia!

    Hi again to you all! What a nice little community :)
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    Hen with Broken Foot?

    Hi there, I've got a question about my beautiful Silkie x Pekin. I got her at 4 weeks old and at about 8 weeks old she and my two other chicks got bad eye infections and she was unable to open one eye. They had no other symptoms. The vet gave me eye drops, which cured it quickly. While she was...
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    Hello from Western Australia!

    Hello, my name is Shar, and I'm new here. I have had bantam chickens on my little suburban lot since this February. I've got three hens that were born this January: an Ancona bantam, a Pekin x Silkie, and a Belgian d'Uccle. 13 days ago, I got three day old chicks: a Gold Laced Wyandotte, and...
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