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    PROUD PAPA!

    I would most definitely install nest boxes in the tractor. Place them at the back with an access door for you to retrieve those beautiful eggs. 🥚🥚🥚
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    Silkie Chicken Contest! Ends September 20, 2020 (No Prize.)

    She looks so well groomed. Beautiful!!! She's feisty because she is the smallest in the bunch. She just has a little Nipolian Syndrome thats all. ;)
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    Silkie Chicken Contest! Ends September 20, 2020 (No Prize.)

    Name: HeiHei & Yzmo Gender: Males Age: 6.5 months Category: C, D & E Tell us a bit about this Silkie!: HeiHei is my Pennies protector. He stands watch when she goes in to lay her daily egg. He's a little off when try to eat and mate so I give him extra attention. Yzmo is just a wishful roo. He...
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    Silkie Chicken Contest! Ends September 20, 2020 (No Prize.)

    Name: Chocolate Lincoln-Pennies Gender: Unknown (background color is my guess) Age: 1 day Category: A Tell us a bit about these Silkies!: My 1st Hatch ever. So Tiny their scrumptious :love:jumpy :jumpy :jumpy :jumpy :jumpy :love
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    Silkie Chicken Contest! Ends September 20, 2020 (No Prize.)

    Finally got my pics ready I was waiting for the babies to hatch so I could include in my entries. Name: Lincoln & Penny Gender: Male & Female Age: 6 mos old Category: B, C & D Tell us a bit about these Silkies!: Lincoln and Penny are a couple. Lincoln will fight my other 2 roos if they try to...
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    Need some guidance.

    Thank you I looked back at parents and I believe they are definitely from my Chocolate Lincoln-Penny 🤣😂🤣
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    Need some guidance.

    Thank You Everyone, my 1st hatch was a success!!! :celebrate Out of the 6 viable Silkie eggs I only had 1 quit. As of Yesturday I have 5 beautifully cute Silkie babies with surprising colors. They are from Chocolate parents (unless I missed something) and have whitish wing tips and...
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    3 month old chicken acting odd

    Please get her tested so you know the cause.
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    Mother/Daughter located in NC

    🥚🐣Welcome to BYC!🐥🐤
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    3 month old chicken acting odd

    :idunnoWell sad to say but if you have another one who succumbs to their illness the vet or state agency should test so you know for sure. If it is indeed Marek's you shouldn't sell or give any of them away. And it can be carried to and from one flock to the next just by contact of people. It...
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    3 month old chicken acting odd

    Did your vet send her out for testing? That's really the only way to know for sure. I'm beside myself with finding out cause once you have it in the flock I'm reading it's there for ever. My girls didn't show those symptoms while alive. They were just mostly lethargic, slow walking, ate and...
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    3 month old chicken acting odd

    I'm fairly new as well but I have had two different outcomes with the same standing still like their sleeping but will also walk, lay down, stand but doesn't really move much continues to stand still for most of the day. My outcome for the first 3 of them was Marek's but that had the addition...
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    Need some guidance.

    I took a paper towel and sucked up the water in "A" and it dropped to 35. It got humid here too and went back up to high 51 so I opened the vent to max and kept an eye on it. When it went back down to 31 I closed the vent halfway like I started it with. I'm definitely keeping an eye on it cause...
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    Need some guidance.

    Well I just finished candleling and I have pulled out all the non fertile ones. I didn't know to candle ahead of time so I wanted to make sure there was no growth. I'm left with 6 little Lincoln Penny's (parents names lol. All have moving embryos, mostly dark areas with nice veins and good air...
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    Review by 'Silkie Jax' in article 'The Great Big Giant Marek's Disease FAQ'

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