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    Growing My Olive Eggers

    I recently got what should end up as 6 olive eggers from a lovely backyard breeder that separated eggs for me. 1 pen had a welsummer rooster over cream legbar hens and an olive egger hen (maran legbar cross). I got 1 blue legbar egg and 2 pale green eggs from the OE. 2nd pen had a cream legbar...
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    My first backyard egg!!!

    I just wanted to share my story of my cute little australorp Roey laying her first egg right in front of me! I was busy cleaning out their pen while all my chickens were out free roaming when she made a fuss to get past me and into the pen. I actually joked to her "are you going to go lay me an...
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    Integrating another Silkie

    I've had a look at other threads on here about integrating silkies into flocks with larger birds, but I l aready have two silkies, so not sure the situation is the same... So in my flock I have 2 australorps, 2 welsummers, a sussex and a wyandotte and then a silkie hen and a silkie roo. Not...
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    Is this normal behavior!?

    So I have one little silkie rooster in my flock of eight 14 week olds. I'm still undecided if I'll keep him, depending on how loud/annoying his crowing gets/whether I can deal with his 'rooster' behaviours! So little Rusty has started doing the pulling them by the comb/neck feathers, which I...
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    How can I tell who is top hen?

    I've had my chicks since day olds and they're now 13 weeks and I'm just wondering if this pecking order thing is meant to be obvious? I have a silkie rooster, a silkie hen, 2 australorps, a wyandotte, a sussex and 2 welsummers. I think my welsummers are at the top (but the two equally?) as they...
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    Will my silkie rooster get bigger than my hens?

    All my chicks are 13 weeks old now, I have 1 silkie rooster and 7 hens - 2 australorps, a sussex, a wyandotte, 2 welsummers and a tiny silkie hen. Other than the silkie hen, will my silkie rooster ever be bigger than my other hens (who I think are all quite large breeds, except the welsummers...
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    Are Silkie crosses good layers?

    Apologies if this is the wrong place to put this (if someone has a better idea which thread it should go in let me know!) I am on my first flock of hens and am getting wayyyyyy ahead of myself, but it seems I have a Silkie rooster and 7 hens and am considering raising some babies in spring...
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    Sexing my silkies - This one COULD be easy...

    So heres my two ten week old silkies. I'm pretty sure Rusty is a boy and so I'm hoping that means Furgi is a girl! They came from the same place but prob didnt have the same parents. Here goes: Furgi: Then Rusty with his amazing head gear: And then a couple photos of them...
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    Help sex my 8 week olds please!

    I have a couple of 8 week olds that I'm not 100% sure about: Chick #1 Rowena (maybe Rohan?) the Australorp Chick #2 Black Australorp (TBN) Both my australorps are quite fluffy butted so I'm hoping theyre both girls! Chick #3 Patrick I've thought he was a he til I recently learnt...
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    Am I ready to sleep outside?

    So this is my suspected light sussex Roo, he's six weeks old now and not quite fully feathered out: And these are my two little silkies: And this is the rest of my flock. Everyone else is quite nicely feathered out: So firstly how do you tell if a silkie is even fully...
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    Will my hens wait til spring to lay?

    I'm from down in Australia and my chicks are only 6 weeks old and will be 3.5 months old on the first day of winter. I've read that hens can start laying around this age or a few months older, but I'm just wondering if my chicks will just wait til spring when it's Warmer?I have australorps...
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    And lastly my 5 week old Light sussex chicks! Guesses?

    So heres my light sussex chicks. I;ve guessed the barely feathered one is a roo since I got them. But then he has no comb and the other one is just SO big with a bit of a comb. He is very upright though (but maybe he looks more so because he has no feathers). What do others think...
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    Confirmation my 5 week old Wellsummers are girlies!?

    And these are my two wellie chicks. I did the whole eyeliner, clear 'V' on the head thing when I selected them as chicks so hopefully they are girls. They look pretty identical. They're chests are gettinig a salmon clour, but not sure about the feathers coming through on the necks with some black...
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    5 week old Austrolorp chicks...gender guesses!?

    These are my two little austrolorps. I keep changing my mind back and forth from them being roos, then hens and now maybe one of each? They're combs arent too huge but have been pink for a while (were never yellow like I've seen on some hens, but they havent neccesarily gotten darker). I just...
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    Any guesses on my 5 week old Silkie chicks!? They're cute!

    Any guesses on gender of my cute little silkies? The brighter buff one is a tiny bit bigger (the first photos up to the pic of the two of them) and I feel like when I let them all run around he starts little stand offs a lot more than the other silkie (though they all do it and I’m sure I have...
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    What colour are my silkie chicks?

    These guys are two weeks old tonight. They looked buff when I got them but I always wondered if the spots on their heads will stay and now the new fluff coming through looks like maybe they'll be grey...does anyone have any thoughts? Then this photo is a photo of when I first got them at a...
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    What sex are my chicks!?

    Theyre only a bit over one week old, but with the two light sussexes they ahve already developed so differently and was wondered if anyone has any idea which sex might be which? The above two are little austrolorps, same age, they pretty much look the same, so I'm thining I have either two...
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