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    What colour is my silkie, is she a splash, partridge?

    Hi She came from a batch of 6 eggs I hatched and all the others are black, what is her colour called please?
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    Are these eggs fertilized

    Hi I have 5 young hens or so I thought as I read when an egg is fertilized there appears to be a sort of bull eyes mark in the middle? Do you think I may have a roo I posing as a hen? Thanks
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    It's very cold but still getting eggs

    My 5 six month old silkie hens have been laying since 24 November. I get between 3-5 eggs a day from them which is great but it is -2 temperature at the moment and I was hoping so they conserve their energy for extra heat they would stop laying but they haven't? Everyday despite being cold...
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    Silkie acting strange

    Hii am quite new at keeping chickens. I have 5 six month old silkie hens which I hatched from incubator. They started laying eggs over a month ago and between them I get 2-5 eggs a day. They usually pay their eggs before 2pm. They are ready for bed in their coop about 4.30pm, being winter...
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    My silkie has laid an egg at 18 weeks - is that ok

    I hatched my first batch of chickens (silkies) on 1 July 2020. Today one of my silkie hens has laid an egg. I was thinking more likely to be March or April because she is still young and it is winter. Is this normal. The egg is perfectly formed, a cream coloured and small. She had no...
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    Silkie Cockerels

    Here is George and Caramel in the background black and (he has a caramel coloured ring around his shoulders and green feathers appearing in his tail) George is a blue with specks of black and white. They are both 3 months old and started crowing and I am devastated as the council have given me...
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    Mice are visiting

    I am fairly new to chicken raising and have 9 beautiful silkies 8 weeks old in a coop and an attached run. Every night I clean the run of any left over food and bedding and there is no way a mouse can get in the coop or run. Today I saw 2 field mice running around outside the run. I believe...
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    One of my lovely babies

    This is one of my 9 silkie babies, they are 5 weeks old today. As you can see this one is keen to explore the world and has the gumption to jump up out of the brooder. I have no name as he has 5 sibling who are all black too so difficult to differentiate yet. I know it is difficult to sex...
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    Query

    My 9 silkie chicks are 4 weeks old in a few days, they are doing well, on their starter chick feed and get a few treats here and there. I have read some people give them a sod of grass and soil but I also read this may give them coccidiosis. I understand they will come into contact with it...
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    16 day old silkie chicks

    Can anybody help me with my query. I have 9 silkies I hatched from an incubator and they are now 16 days old. I have them in a brooder and they seem to be growing well and seem happy. What I want to know is it normal for them at this age to virtually fly which some are attempting, it seems to...
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    Newbie

    Hello My name is Christine and I am a complete novice. 10 days ago I was 100% successful with hatching 9 out of 9 silkie eggs which was awesome and such an experience. My silkies are well comfortable with their brooder quarters. I have 6 black, and 1that I believe is called a partridge silkie...
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