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    Silkie Bantam Chicks

    Silkie chicks for sale. 1 is 1 week old, 2 are 4 weeks old, 1 is 2 weeks old, black/gray. I also have a 1 year old black Silkie banty rooster for sale. Email me at [email protected]
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    Help, feeding question!

    I have 9 week old chicks in with my laying hens. I can't keep my chicks out of the layer feed, I have tried everything. I heard it is really bad if they are eating the laying feed, so can I switch everyone (laying hens) to the medicated chick starter until the chicks are old enough to switch...
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    Update on my chick

    This is an updated picture of my black australorp/polish rooster chick. She is 6 weeks. Not sure of she is a she or he..
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    Mix Breed Help

    This is my 4 week old baby. Her momma is a Black Australorp and dad is silver polish rooster....What do you think..he or she?
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    Day 2

    Day 2 and all is still going well. I have a question though, how can I tell if the baby is drinking? I have stuck her beak in the water, and she doesn't seem to be grasping the drinking when I show it to her. Does the mother teach them to drink and eat the chick starter? What signs do I look...
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    New baby!

    Well thanks to your advice I let my broody hen stay on her egg. Guess what 21 days later I have a new baby! So adorable. Now what???? They are both in the coop with the rest of the flock, but they are in an old rabbit hutch we converted. Mom seems to be taking very good care of her. I put...
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    Sleeping on the floor ??

    I am so frustrated... after trying several kinds of roosts (now 2x4 flat side up) only 2 of my 11 chickens use the roost. The rest sleep on the raised wood floor in the pine shavings. They dig holes, roll around and cover themselves..... Is this normal?? I know they like to dust bath, but they...
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    Broody Hatching

    I am a newbie at hatching eggs... well to make a long story short I posted a few weeks ago because my 7 month old dominique went broody and I couldn't break her, so I put an egg under her. Well....today is day 9 and the air space is bigger and I definately see a dark area in the egg now. It's...
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    Broody hen no eggs?

    Will a broody hen lay no eggs? I have a hen that will not leave the nesting box (unless I pick her up and remove her) but is not laying on any eggs, and I do not think she has laid any. She has been this way for 3 days now and from what I read she might be broody. She stays in the nesting box...
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    Help! Bleeding Feather

    My Polish Rooster had his head pecked bald from another rooster (which we no longer have). Anyway, it has been at least a month and his feathers are starting to grow back on his head. However, I noticed today one of the broken feathers (just stub left) is bleeding small drops. What do I do??
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    Play toy

    They just love me when I hang a head of cabbage up for them...to bad it is gone within minutes
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    Wow

    Ok, I know I am new to this, but she is laying a huge egg everyday! almost 3" and both so far weight 3 oz. I'm starting to feel her pain normal egg on right
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    Fertile scrambled eggs

    I have 10 hens and a rooster so I know my eggs are fertile. However, I collect them every morning and put them straight in the fridge. I have read on here that you can give the hens scrambled or boiled eggs for protein, but does it matter if the eggs were fertile or unfertile?
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    Chickens and snow

    I am new to the chicken world..My babies are 6 months old next week and I am always amazed by them. I have felt so guilty because we could not afford to put a roof on the run this year and I was worried about the winter. However, this was two days ago and I cannot believe they were out in the...
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    Liquid with egg

    Ok, this is my second egg like this and I am getting a little worried. I have found a perfectly beautiful egg laying in the nesting box, but laying on top of "wet" pin shavings. It's not a huge amount just a little area under and around the egg. Like she peed when the egg came out. This is...
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    Thumbnail Picture

    Ok, how do you put the thumbnail picture by your member name so it appears when you post?
  17. basketmom

    Polish Rooster

    I have another question. I have a 6 month old Polish Rooster (Yes, I have confirmed he is a rooster). He is the most docile bird and just a pleasure to raise. I got him and my 10 hens at one day old. However, he does not run the coop. After dark he will be in the coop sleeping and the hens...
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    Dropping Eggs all over

    Hi everyone, I have a question. I am new to raising chickens. I have 10 chickens and and they are 5 months old and started laying about 4 weeks ago. However, once in awhile I will find a egg on the floor, by the pop door, and today in the outside run. Maybe once a week I am finding one egg...
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