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    Post HERE Of Your Chickens Funniest Story!!

    That's hilarious! They look so content in that stroller. I always see people with their dogs in shopping carts in stores so, HEY, why not a chicken!?! Or better yet---three chickens!
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    Post HERE Of Your Chickens Funniest Story!!

    I want to see a picture of your chickens in a doggy/chicken stroller!
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    Treats

    Every now and then, I'll take some seedless grapes---peel the skin off---and put pieces of them on top of the chicks' food. They get so excited because they think they've found some worms!
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    New broody kicked her eggs out..

    One of my broody hens (while sitting on fertile eggs) would periodically go through the motions of giving herself a dustbath right there in the nest!! Eggs would be rolling and getting kicked all over the place! Maybe that's what happened to your eggs. (?) As for combining the eggs in the...
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    Cleaning out Broodies nest?

    My silkies have done that too (i.e. poop in their nest)!! Have you candled the eggs to see if they're likely to hatch? If so, then congratulations, you've pretty much reached lock-down! In the past, if it was near lock-down and the nest is not overwhelmingly soiled, then I've just scooped out...
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    WE ARE IN LOCKDOWN!!

    How exciting! I hope you have a great hatch!
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    Silkie needs new home – Near Half Moon Bay, CA

    I just spotted a coyote, so I brought him inside.
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    Silkie needs new home – Near Half Moon Bay, CA

    My silkie cockerel would like some girlfriends to entertain with his newly-acquired “singing” skills. Of his potential playmates, one is broody, and the other is a tiny buff silkie hen who likes to chase him out of the coop! Although my closest neighbors have reassured me that they actually...
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    Missing chicken!

    Yes, that's hopefully what will happen! After 3 weeks, they'll come strolling back like nothing ever happened. Otherwise, if there's no evidence of predators,...you might have to start giving one of your neighbors the STANK EYE!!
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    Missing chicken!

    Perhaps she's hanging out nearby quietly brooding?
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    ORDERED THIS INCUBATOR FROM EBAY ???

    Here's some info. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/774021/dasp-mini-digital-incubator-trial-and-review https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/713707/new-dasp-incubators-does-anyone-know-about-these https://www.backyardchickens.com/products/dasp-mini-digital-egg-incubator-7-egg-hatch-capacity-pink...
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    Incubators?

    Here are a few threads that may help: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/736899/the-incubator-thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/88674/best-incubators-review-your-favorite One more: https://www.backyardchickens.com/products/category/egg-incubators?sort=rating
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    White Silkie Bantam Roosters

    I managed to keep a rooster for a year under somewhat similar conditions. He loved crowing at all hours, and for a small silkie, he was incredibly loud! I tried numerous tricks to help control the time of day that he crowed (i.e. not too early or late) as well as the noise level, but after a...
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    The Adventures of Daisy the Silkie Chicken

    You're right, iwiw60!! Just like THAT! In fact, if it were not for this little chicken's bravery, I doubt that I'd ever have gotten the others to even go near the dried mealworms that apparently all chickens are supposed to love. What kinds of treats do your chickens like?
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    The Adventures of Daisy the Silkie Chicken

    Actually, the other day, I caught her working her way up the small stairway that leads up the hillside where the deer lives. The problem with that, however, is that --along the hillside-- there are also deer ticks, raccoons, coyotes, foxes, owls and hawks!!! So, just as a precaution, I made a...
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