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    Silkies in the desert...

    Hello! I live in Nevada and have 2 silkie hens. I have done as much as Ican think of to keep my babies cool. We have a cover over their coop and run, 2 waterers, everything is ventilated, we put ice cubes in their water, we give them cold fruit as treats, and today I brought out a kiddie pool to...
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    My hen seems off

    My 5 month old hen normally walks around and clucks all of the time. She is placed with 2 roosters(they were hatched together). Today I noticed she was sort of isolating herself from things. I went in the chicken area and she stayed in a shaded area and didn’t even bother to look over at us. As...
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    Rooster help please!!!

    Hello! I have one silkie rooster and two silkie hens. My rooster is a TALKER. All hours of the day he is crowing, and we are worried because we live in a neighborhood. I give them seeds throughout the day, and they have a coop that’s inside a dog run, and I let them run free both days of the...
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    When can I put them outside?

    I have month old silkie chicks. They have recently started to have no heat lamp during the day. Eventually I need to put them outside lol, but because it’s so cold, I don’t know when to start introducing them to the outside. The highest temperature recently has been about 45-50° Anybody have advice?
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    Something wrong with my chick?

    Hello! I had posted a thread about 4-5 days ago asking about one of my silkie chicks. I have 3 and they are 3 weeks old today. I have one that is different than the other 2. Two of them are white, growing rapidly, and are now sprouting head and back feathers. They have their wing feathers and...
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    One chick smaller than the others

    I have 3 baby silkies that I hatched. They are about 2 and a half weeks old. One is growing rapidly, one is in the middle, and one honestly seems like a runt. The largest one was born a day before the other 2. The “runt” was the only one that hatched properly, the other 2 needed help. The weight...
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    Do I Take Away the Heat Lamp??

    I have baby silkies that just reached 2 weeks old yesterday. I’m starting to think about if I should begin taking heat away from them in about a week. They are under the heat lamp 24/7 but I do take them out for about 15-20 minutes every day. They walk around just fine and love being out! I am...
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    Chick pecking other chick

    So I put a silkie chick in the brooder this morning, and another one in this afternoon. The first silkie will non stop torment and peck the other one. We tried dividing the brooder into 2 but they’re getting through. I’m worried the one will peck the other to death. Help!!
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    Should I help??

    So I am on Day 21 and when I woke up this morning, I saw an egg had pipped but nothing has happened in about 4-5 hours. I know I’m supposed to wait but I noticed a yellow/clear liquid that had come out when it pipped. I heard that it may have been too much humidity, but I have 1 chick going at...
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    I think I made a mistake, someone help!!

    Alright, so I don’t know if I did something bad. I put the eggs on lockdown on (what I thought was) day 18. I have had such bad anxiety the past 3-4 days because NOTHING has happened. I posted a couple threads and got help from people, only to realize.... I miscounted the days. Today is actually...
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    Help please!!

    Hi! I am in the process of hatching(hopefully) 7 Silkie eggs! I had put them in lockdown on day 18 and candled them to make sure they looked good, and they looked great! They took up about 80% of the egg with the air sack gradually getting larger. My incubator does not have a humidity sensor...
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    New member here!

    Trying to get info on my silkie eggs :)
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    No progress on day 23

    Help!! I am raising 7 silkie eggs. I put them in lockdown on day 18 and everything seemed fine. I left them in there besides when I needed to put more water in there. Yesterday, we were getting concerned because it had been day 22 and there has been no rolling of eggs, no chirping, no pipping...
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