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    Can standard roo mate with Silkie hens?

    Hubby and I want to know if our broody Silikes were possibly mated with our only roo, a standard Buttercup?? We've never seen him actually do anything with them, but he's tried. Has anyone evey seen a small standard mate with a Silkie???
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    White Rock and Buttercup Rooster had babies, ???'s

    I have a wonderful hen sitting on 7 eggs and two hatched already, they look just like their handsome daddy Buttercup. Well she hatched them in the nest box, I was going to move her and the nest and the babies into a crate in the run or other area of the coop. For those of you that might...
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    FREE - Silikies and others, Come get them today near Charlotte NC

    I hate to downsize my flock but I am in the AF Reserves, and have a lot going on. I have too many chickens for Hubby to care for on reserve weekends. If you bring a crate, I am giving away 3 -6 silkie hens, brown, black, grey, 1 Black Silkie Frizzle rooster, 1 beatufilul white Silkie Rooster...
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    Christmas Eve Luminaria tour

    Our city lights the entire local cemetary and most of the grave sites with luminarias on Christmas eve and spell JESUS out on the hillside. They line the roads in and throughout with them too, and have the tall church bells ringing playing Christmas music. Many of you know my grandaughter (my...
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    My 5 weeks old Silkies and Mille Fleurs

    Here are my babies:
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    My chicks from Dipsy Doodle Doo (Lisa)

    I have them on my signature post link but here they are Lisa, they are so healthy and cute, it was late tonight so it's a little dark...we luv our little naked neck
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    Guess what hubby just brought home?!!

    He had to go pick up a repo today and he said he found this out in the cold. I was working out and he came into the room and had him in his jacket........ I named him Diesel........ (yes after Vin Diesel) hee hee
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    Impacted crop for over over a week!

    I've read every thread on here about impacted crop. I'm getting worried. I have a black sex-link hen that has had an impacted crop for almost two weeks. It was first the size of a golfball, I cut back on her food and extras and massaged it and gave her oil. It didn't go down. I grew to the...
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    ID Bracelet Missing 2 decades found in a chicken!!!

    I copied this from Foxnews: this is wild, but I believe it happened: AIRMONT, Minn. — More than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet, he's finding how it was discovered tough to swallow. A meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont came across the shiny object in a chicken...
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    Hubby picking on me for being "scared" of rooster

    We had two roosters one started attacking me and then both. We re-homed the aggressive one and left DH's favorite a buttercup roo. Well last night we go to take our 6 baby standards out into the run in there dog crate and it's dark outside and in the run except for the light we had on in the...
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    On Day 21, Hatched 9, 1 didn't make it......:(

    OK, I've been so laid back, had 15 eggs in my bator from Jen, today is day 19, I've had great temps and humidity from day one. I went and picked up my parents who couldn't complete their drive up here (dad has parkinson's) just got in and checked my babies, and now I've got 6 eggs with little...
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    Final stats on Broody Dorking hatch!!

    Well, Miss Pidge did an excellent job on hatching her babies DH says we need to take her out for a steak this weekend. Here is how it worked out. She went broody after laying 10 beautiful white eggs. She wouldn't get off the nest. I put 11 eggs from our Buttercup Roo, RIR Roo and SLW roo...
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    Broody hen day 25 on clutch??!!

    My wonderful girl Pidge has hatched 5 out of 13 eggs. One a day for the last 5 days since day 21. We luv on her, keep food at her nest, but her comb looks a little pitiful at this point. We are are going to give her a few more days then take the eggs away. Is this the right choice, we dont...
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    Got my eggs!! Thanks Lisa! and ????'s

    I've got my eggs, 5 frizzle, 5 Naked necks 5 silkie. I've had the bator at 99.3-99.7 for three days, humidity fluctuates a lot, holding betwen 45-60% It was 33% when I got home today so I added water. The eggs are warmed to room temperature. I'm all set. Do I put the big round end up...
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    Your on a Chicken Forum?!!!?!!!?

    So last night step son and his girlfriend come over for dinner. They saw me working on the incubator and were asking all sorts of questions about how it worked and I explained it. We then went out to the shop to look at the new babies, and one of the silkie's wasn't doing so well. My SS said...
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    Talk about yourself!

    If you want to talk about yourself! Education level - Military yes/no - branch how long in? - Current Job - Kids, grandkids! - how many how old? Hobbies - Somethin most people don't know about you!
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    Is your auto egg turner REALLY slow??

    I have the GQF auto turner, for the Hovabator. Mine moves so slow I can barely tell it's moving is that normal?
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    Hygrometer/Thermometer question

    I found a combination digital thermometer/hygrometer with one probe. (Most of the ones available now are wireless).... anyway when I put the probe in the water weasel, I know the probe will be reading the temp inside there. Where is the humidity reading coming from -- the probe inside the...
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    I'm gonna be a nervous wreck....**Update**baby chick died!

    Our broody hen namded Pidge is sitting on 13 eggs. She hatched out one chick yesterday and it almost seemed like it was smothering so I took it away and put it in the brooder box. "Scruffy" is doing fine. There was a second one that was pipped with beak out peeping this morning, and I asked...
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    Aggressive 2 day old bantams!

    I raised 29 standard chicks in my brooder and never saw one bitty actually behave in a way that made me worry for anothers safety before they were 3 weeks old, then it was just feather picking and plucking. Ok so...... I have 16, one day old feather footed bantams in one half of my dividable...
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