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multiple roos in a flock
Thanks, Batchelor pad it will be while I try and re-home or find a decent recipe...- snapper
- Post #12
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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multiple roos in a flock
Ref multi Roo/Cockerel flocks, we started off with 6 Silky hens (3 white, 3 black) that had just reached point of lay and 6 eggs. They came from a free ranging flock and the 'home' Cockerel said goodbye to the hens as we were choosing them. The hens went into the coup and the eggs went in the...- snapper
- Post #10
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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silkie sexing
Thanks, we are hoping that 'Chirpy' will turn out to be a Roo and with 5 cats in the house, one with 'attitude' to boot... Out of interest are Silkie Roo's particularly noisy of a morning?- snapper
- Post #4,248
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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silkie sexing
Anyone like to make a guess with this one please? It's nearly 16 weeks old now. Size is deceptive in the pics, still much smaller than the rest of the group. After this first 'meet n greet' session it will be joining the 'gang' full time in a couple of weeks once they have got...- snapper
- Post #4,244
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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silkie sexing
Can anyone help sexing this little 6 week old beauty please. Our first chick, one of two that hatched but the other one sadly didn't make it.- snapper
- Post #4,137
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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post your chicken coop pictures here!
To cut a long story short, we decided to get some chickens, so I chucked a coop & run together over a couple of weekends, it's 5.5 mtrs long over all and 2.7 mtr wide at one end and 1.7 mtrs at the coop end. The coop is 1.7 x 1.3 mtrs. Inside the coop Were starting off with 6 silkies...- snapper
- Post #10,061
- Forum: Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance