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  1. Mother of Chicks

    Food storage and grain mites

    Background to why I have different types of food (in case you are curious): I have 14 week old silkies who are on growers pellets and doing just fine - they are in a separate coop to the pullets at the moment. I have new silkie and polish pullets who when they came to me were on layers...
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    Sex my silkies please AKA which pronoun? :D

    I would appreciate any thoughts you have on the gender of my 6 babies (13 weeks old). I know they are hard to sex and the usual you can only be sure with an egg or a crow etc but I am looking for indicators. Thanks very much in advance for your help B x Chick 1 (I think obvious boy)...
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    Help please - new pullet distress call - plus coop pic

    Hi all, I have set up coop #2 and got a delivery of 4 pullets on Thursday- 2 silkie and 2 polish bantam. They had all been living together before they arrived. Now, one of the silkies (Bento - they silver partridge) keeps making a distress call especially when I go near the coop. She doesn't...
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    Help with chicken math(s) please :D!

    Hi all, I could do with some of your wonderful wisdom to help me pass a basic course in chicken math(s - I'm a Brit ;)). So, I have 6 silkies of about 8 weeks, and in usual silkie fashion, their gender could be anything. Best guess at the moment is 2xf 2xm and 2x ??. Regardless, they are...
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    Help please! Chick wry neck cutting herself and bleeding - need support :/

    Hi all, A couple of days ago one of my silkies got wry neck. It was gradual and then got really bad. I think I am doing the right things re treatement - vit E, selenium, mashed food through a dropper, separate from other chicks but can see them. Here's the issue, she has a severe case of wry...
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    Advice needed: sight issue 4 week old silkie

    Hey all, Not sure if this is the right place for this query, but it does apply to a chick with a disability. One of my silkie chicks, Teriyake - Teri for short, seems to have a sight issue in that he (I am almost certain he is a rooster - you know when you just feel it in your bones?) can...
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    How do I know if she's recovered? Omphalitis? Runt?

    Hi all, I have silkie chicks which are 2 weeks and some which are 11 days old - 7 chicks in total. So, here's the story of Temago (Japanese for Omlette). She was hatched on 20th May from an egg which I didn't hold out much hope - detached air cell was very unstable so she was a carton baby...
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    Blood ring? Weird position embryo? Advice please

    I have a set of eggs on day 6 in incubator. The one I am talking about now has a detached air cell and so I didn't hold out too much hope and put it in a cut out egg carton tilting and turning manually to give it the best chance. On day 4, I candled and saw what I thought was a blood ring but...
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    Hatching journey - my silkie babies

    OK - here we go. I have 12 silkie eggs in 2 incubators. 7 in my Brinsea Mini II Advance and 5 in my Mini Brinsea Eco. I have a staggered start but from the same batch and supplier. They are shipped, but only 13 miles (I am on super-lockdown as I have bad asthma). Due dates: 15th May for 7 and...
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    Day 19. Anxiety

    Hi all, This is just a mini-vent. I am on day 19 and my 2 remaining silkie eggs are in lockdown! I never thought it would be so stressful or that I would feel so invested. I am mostly scared about if only one makes it and the other is a lonely little chickadee. It would also be horrible if...
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    Dust baths? (silkies)

    Hi all, I am expecting my first hatch in a few days and I am very excited. I have silkies in the incubator and I am just sorting out the coop requirements. I think I have everything I need - coop - run - free-ranging gate - water - food - bedding etc. However, I am a bit uncertain of whether I...
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    New member - already obsessed

    Hi all, I am UK based and have my first eggs in the incubator on day 14. Silkies - and I'm waiting on some more to be posted. I am extremely nervous about this hatch - so I have been lurking here for weeks trying to absorb all of the information. Hopefully some if it has sunk in. I have...
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