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  1. Villa delle Rosa Silkies

    Breeding White with Black & Partridge with White?

    I live in New Zealand, & there are not that many Silkie breeders here, so most of them keep their pullets & hens .... so it's proving really hard finding the colors I want (I'm quite new to breeding Silkies). I've ended up with two white silkie cockerels of 6.5 months old, & their father who is...
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    Breeding Partridge with Buff???

    I have a lovely almost 15 week old partridge boy, who I am keeping for breeding. He's got nice type & color, including a black breast, but his crest is mostly black with orange only towards the back of it. I do not have a partridge girl to breed him to. I am quite new to Silkies, & all I have...
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    Recommendations for safe weed-killers nearby to coops & runs, please.

    We have an area of weeds in the area that our Silkies' coops & runs are ..... we do allow our Silkies to free-range twice a day, under supervision, as there are cats around ..... but they don't go into the area where there is a mound of weeds, quite near to one of the coop & runs. We have weeded...
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    Rats in Run

    Our Silkie rooster was crowing loudly half the morning, which is unusual for him, so my husband went to check, & saw two rats scuttling out of the run, & a pile of dirt from a hole they had obviously dug to get into the run. I know they would be after the food ..... could they transmit any...
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    Partridge Breeding Towards Showing.

    I'm relatively new to BYC & to breeding Silkie chickens. From 6 Silkie eggs that I hatched in an incubator 14 weeks ago, I have this rather gorgeous partridge boy .... this photo was taken when he was 13 weeks old. Although I'm not very knowledgeable about partridge genetics or SOP, Zuni does...
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    My Silkie girl has stopped laying

    My Silkie girl of just over a year old, suddenly stopped laying just over a week ago .... She is in with my rooster, who is around 8 months old. She was laying very regularly, & just suddenly stopped. I thought it might be stress due to several horrendous thunder storms we had just before she...
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    New Silkie Breeder

    Hello everyone. I've just joined Backyard Chickens, as I have recently started hatching & breeding Silkies. I retired from nursing last year, & was looking for something to give me a new challenge in my "older age", & had thought about having a little flock of Silkie hens as pets .... but very...
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