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    Losing chickens, one by one... (Warning: Dead chicken picture)

    A few weeks ago I discovered my Pekin bantam was dead, stuffed in between the edges of the coop, with her head missing. The rest of her was intact. More recently one of my Silkies had all of her feathers ripped out of one of her wings and it was bleeding. I thought it was the chickens having...
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    Shell-less egg in their run, what to do? (pics)

    I found this shell-less egg in my chooks' run. It was still warm when I picked it up. I have no clue which chook did it. Is this bad? What should I do? What can I do?
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    My chooks have... lice?

    I found these creamy coloured bugs on my chooks. I am not sure what they are. I thought they were lice but now I am not so sure I would take a picture of it but I am not going back in there! I totally freaked and took a shower and washed my hair >.< I only saw 2, one on one chook and one on...
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    What breed is this rooster? (pictures)

    I hatched a few eggs that were supplied from a friend who has had a few different roosters down the line. Only one turned out to be a rooster. We aren't allowed roosters here and I will have to get rid of him but I would rather have some idea of what breed he is for when I put up an ad to give...
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    Good nesting material?

    I have had serveral broken/fractured eggs and I am getting sick of it. I once did have sugar cane mulch in the nexting boxes but my chooks stratched it all out. Any suggestions?
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    Mysterious tiny Silkie eggs!

    I have discovered 2 small eggs so far and I don't know who layed them. Here is a picture of the eggs next to one of my Silkie eggs: The middle one is the first I found which was under the roost and the top one I found today (on the ground as well). For the past few days I have been getting...
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    Laying eggs on the floor, what do I do?

    One of my chooks has been laying eggs on the floor and I can only assume it is because the box they normally use is in use at the time. It has only happened 3 times so far and a quite distant apart. Each time I find the eggs on the floor they have been all cracked (I kicked one today ._.). What...
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    5 month old hen lays first egg! (pictures)

    I can't believe it! I am so proud! I have had only silkies in the past but some of my silkies went broody so I got them some non-silkie eggs to sit on. Got 2 out of the 3 eggs but one of the chicks "disappeared" one day so that left me with this one (pictured below). She is also twice the size...
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    First egg covered in blood, normal or bad? (pic)

    I discovered one of my silkies in the nesting box and she looked like she was trying to do a poop Anyway, I discovered the egg was covered in blood (picture below). It broke from the thump to the bottom of the box (I was next to the box watching her). It's covered with blood on both sides. As...
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    My Silkie Hen just mounted another Silkie Hen, what to do?

    I have read that this sort of thing can happen when there is no rooster. Is there anything I can do about it?
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    Are chooks racist?

    I have 2 grey, 2 pure white and 1 ginger silkie chooks. They all seem to hang out with their own colour "coop mates". The 2 grey ones are always together and the 2 white ones as well. When I had my ginger rooster, him and my other ginger silkie would hang out together. Why is this? Does anyone...
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    Brown Snake in run!

    I spotted a brown snake in the chooks' run. I was only a half metre away from it before it went slithering under the coop. I pulled up all the boards I could to try to find the snake but with no luck. I did, however, find a rat skull. Do snakes spit up their prey's bones by chance? If so, that...
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    Rats and ants...

    I got myself a Ratzapper and got 4 rats in the first 4 days and then nothing for a while. I think the problem was because the ants were going after the bait. The bait was always completely covered in ants. I only recently setup a way where the Ratzapper would be on a bowl in the middle of a big...
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    Is Silkie egg yolk supposed to be yellow?

    I have only recently started eating my silkie eggs... was too chicken lol I have discovered that all the eggs yolk are yellow and not orange. That's normal, right? o.o
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    Always picking on the little guys, what do I do?

    I currently have 2 white silkies, 1 ginger and 2 grey. The pure white silkies in the pictures are Ducky and Precious. The ginger silkies are Jess and Roxy (Roxy is gone now, due to the fact that we aren't allowed roosters here). The white grey one in the first picture in the upper right...
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    Silkies stopped laying, will they start again soon?

    From left to right, Princess, Precious, Ducky and umm Poly... the rooster >.>; Jess. Precious and Jess were the only ones laying but now Jess is broody and sitting on some eggs and Precious was broody but stopped and hasn't layed an egg since. Jess, Precious and Ducky are 35 weeks old (238...
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    Mean Hen! (picture)(Update - Discovery)

    From left to right, Dizzy the duck, Poly and Princess. Poly is the chookie in question. I bought her when she was 3 months old. She is now around about 5 months old. Princess is the same age as her and yet Poly is almost twice the size of her! I have seen, lately, Poly chasing Dizzy and...
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    Egg bound or Broody?

    One of my newly egg laying hens has been spending a lot of time in a nesting box. She was in there for the last of the day yesterday and into the night but I ended up moving her to the roost. First thing this morning I found her in there again. She is still in there now and it is now evening. I...
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    Scrambled eggs... how shall I prepare it for my chooks? :P

    I read that scrambled eggs is good for chooks... seems a bit odd to me o.o How should I prepare it? Just scramble the eggs and nothing else?
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    Hatching my Silkie eggs... (Final Update)

    I had to give away my rooster a while ago and decided to try to hatch his babies. I have 7 silkie eggs in the incubator and 1 has veins! I have only ever hatched a duck in all the times I have tried in the past to hatch other eggs. If this works, it will be my first success with chickens Wish...
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