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    Advice for ordering chicks - breeds and other questions!

    What breeds should I order? What hatchery? I currently have Orpingtons (Crele&Lavs), LF Cochins, and Polish. I am a seasoned chicken owner, who enjoys incubating and raising chicks. I do sell chicks and mature birds every so often as supplemental income, and to keep my flocks young and...
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    Not Urgent - Silkie Hens - Teading Marks

    I posted this in the managing your flock thread and no one answered. I have a small Silkie flock - 4 hens 1 roo. Bought them established. 3 out of 4 hens have no feathers on the backs of their heads and bare spots on the wings. The hen that has feathers isnt a bully, she is actually last in the...
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    Silkie Flock Question

    Hello Silkie Experts! I am not new to chickens, but I am less than months in to raising Silkies and selling hatchlings locally. I have 4 hens and 1 roo that I bought as an established flock. They lay well and the eggs hatch very well with healhty strong chicks! My question - how do you...
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    Dead chick mystery!

    I found one of my oldest Orpington chicks (3-4 weeks) dead in the brooder this morning. The other chicks are way smaller. It was not injured. It was laying on its side, and there were other very small chicks laying on top of it. This chick was fine yesterday. Could the smaller chicks have...
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    Egg-Autopsy - thoughts on what went wrong???

    So in the learning curve of hatching my own eggs...I did not mark at all the eggs I put in the incubator. :he What an idiot right?! So Ive had 3 littles hatch, and candle some of the others to check their progress. This little Silkie had NO movement. Aircell had been ruptured, but no tears in...
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    Finally Registered! Love BYC

    Good Morning All! I have been reading BYC for years when I had questions about chickens! We have always had a few laying hens, but switched into hatching and raising birds after our youngest son, who is 7, fell in love with chickens! We currently have a flock of Silkies, Ayam Cemani, LF Cochin...
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