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  1. kaleighmarie1213

    Older chicks brooding new babies?

    My 3 older chicks are 4 weeks old. We just hatched 5 silkie babies in the last 24 hrs. I originally was going to split them up because of age difference but wanted to see if they could live together... and beyond my surprise not only did they accept the chicks, the older chicks started letting...
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    Roo Falling/Limping & Pale Comb

    Help me figure out what's up with my roo boy! This is the second day in a row now that he has plopped out of the coop in the morning and takes encouragement to get up and move. His comb and wattles are turning pale and limp, and his feathers on his lower back area seem to be jumbled up...
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    Is this fertilized?

    We have a silkie roo and two laying hens, I've seen him mate with them a few tines and I have patiently waited to see if any if the eggs we gather have been fertilized successfully. This one in particular looked different than they usually do. Is that the bullseye? I've tried to figure it out on...
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    5wk old Silkie chick abcess

    My daughters silkie named Raven is not acting normal. Here is all I know... she is 5 weeks old, none of the others are affected as far as I can tell. She is a silkie/frizzle mix I hatched from an online order. They've been kept indoors and food/water cleaned nearly daily. Held often and quite...
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    First Hatch-a-long! November 2021!

    Hello! If anyone was following from my shipped eggs post I figured it would be easier to put everything in a Hatch-A-Long to keep updating as kinda a journal! I'll go copy/paste my couple updates from the shipped eggs post below and can't wait to continue watching these eggs develop! Eggs...
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    Eggs arrived in sad conditions...

    I ordered online from a semi local breeder. I like to keep money in small businesses. Anyways, they're brahma and silkies. They traveled within my state for 2 days and when they arrived tonight I already assumed the worst but was not as heart broken as I worried. There were 13 eggs, I paid for...
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    New to chicken raising! 🐔

    Hey everyone! I am a nearly 31yr old mom of 4 in Northern Idaho. My childhood I always had family and friends with poultry and livestock (it's normal here) but because I loved in apartments my youth and most of my young adulthood I never had a chance to try. My kids are 9.5, 8, 6, and 3. My...
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    Candeling chicken eggs - unsure age

    I became a surrogate chicken mom last night for my inlaws. They have around 8 hens and one has been brooding until her babies hatched. These 3 eggs were sat on for about 3ish weeks with the other 2 that hatched 2 nights ago, but mom tended to her hatched chick's more than these eggs yesterday...
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