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    Shipping Chickens from America to the UK

    Hi, I am looking for a show quality bearded silkie rooster, I've been searching for quite a time now and can't find anywhere in the UK that i can get one. So I was wondering is there any way I could get one shipped from the US to the UK, and if so does any one know any breeders that would ship...
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    Treats For Chicks

    I have 6 1 week old silkie chicks what treats could I feed them?, and when would I need to start giving them grit, they hatched under a broody hen so they are pecking around at different things anyway.
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    Grey Silkies

    Can someone please post a picture of grey silkie chicks, I'm thinking I might have some though I'm not sure what to look for to determine the colour
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    Naming Silkie Chicks

    Hi, I have 4 blue bearded silkie chicks (I think are girls), 1 dark blue/black non bearded ( I think boy) and 1 red partridge non bearded (not sure of the gender), they are only 1 week old so obviously I can't be sure of gender just going by their behaviour and size, and I can't think of any...
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    Switching Feed

    My Silkie chicks are 5 days old and I have them on starter feed, I was just wondering when I should switch them to growers pellets and then what age I can safely give them layers (I know it won't be for a while but I want to be prepared), also at what age can I give them treats and what could I...
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    Silkie Chick Bearded Or Not?

    Hi, yesterday my broody hen hatched out 5 chicks, the mum is a bearded splash silkie and the dad is a non bearded red partridge silkie, the other chicks all look like the chick in the picture below but the shades vary. I was wondering are these chicks bearded? and would anybody be able to guess...
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    Silkie Chicks

    Hi, I have just got back from my holiday and found out that my friends did not actually take all of my chickens eggs like we had asked and when i looked under my 2 broody silkie hens we found 7 eggs, so I decided to candle just incase as we did not know how long our broodies had been sitting on...
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