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  1. featherpickingfool

    advice wanted on brinsea incubator

    I am trying to hatch with incubator for first time. I have silkies and bought eggs online because my roster is not good stock. I got egg turner insert for mini 2 and the eggs don't turn when I turn it. I am using 7 egg insert. 6 eggs. Everything else is setup according to instructions...
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    picking eggs to hatch

    Spring is here and I thought my perpetually broody silkie could hatch some chicks. My problem is of my two roosters, one is a frizzle. Two of my hens are frizzle but one hen from last spring is normal so I want to pick out her eggs to make a clutch of 6 or so. What is the best way to do this...
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    Pressure treated shavings in run?

    I am making a door for my barn and I have a garbage can full shavings from planing the wood. Could I put it in chicken run? Bad idea?
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    chicken song

    Do only hens sing like this? One of my 13 week ago silkies was letting it rip like a big girl. Or maybe this isn't an egg song. I've never heard any of my boys carry on like this. I really thought it was a he. Thanks.
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    All flock feed question

    I have always bought purina layen. When I have chicks I use the Start and Grow. My silkie chicks look to be three young roosters. That would bring my chicken total to 5 hens and 4 roosters. I bought Flock raiser this last time to support the boys. My question is does Flock Raiser stink? I...
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    What can come through 2x4 fence ?

    I am once again losing battle with coons. My chicken habitat(2 Hoop Shelters together) has 2x4 fencing wrapped over cattle panels. Then covered with different sizes of chicken wire, hardware cloth, and rabbit fencing in a patch work of mostly recycled bits and pieces in my perpetual too broke...
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    Silkie gender guesses welcome

    I got four chicks in May. They were hatched May 9th. Two dark gray ones and a white one are are about the same size and the buff one is smaller. I hope pictures are okay. It is hard actually getting a focused shot. Group picture Charcoal, Smoky, Butter, and Lemon This is Lemon's head shot...
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    Walnut hulls?

    I have black walnut tree that drops nuts in yard. I read somewhere that walnuts were bad for chickens. I just saw one of my hens pecking and eating green hull. Do I need to remove the walnuts from the chicken yard? She is going on three years old and I imagine that this was not the first...
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    State of my flock, Midsummer

    It’s the middle of the summer. We started the year with six birds. In January we lost a young Rooster to a hawk. In March we had another hawk attack but didn’t lose any birds. I started reinforcing the henyard. After the second attack we got five legbar chicks at the co-op. My silky Betty took...
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    Bringing 4 week old silkies into flock

    My silkie chicks are 4 weeks old. I am trying to integrate them into the flock. I got them when they were two days hatched. I got 5 Cream legbars the week after easter because the eggs my broody silkie Betty had being sitting on were bad. She tucked the legbars in and was happy. I soon...
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    Silkie sexing guesses?

    I have four silkie chicks. They are ten days old. I hope they are all pullets, but who knows? First on is Lemon Drop. Chick #2 Number 3. And number 4. Any input welcome. I've been working with "Smoke". She has been suffering with pasty butt, but is getting better.
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    Pasty butt week ago chick

    I got four silkies last Wednesday. They were two days old. Two dark and two light colored. Both of the dark ones have had pasty butt. The last time I had to clean one of them was Saturday. The other one I clean a few times a day. She has been getting sitz baths and then runs around the...
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    Silkie chicks

    My brave hen Betty sat on eggs that didn't hatch for weeks. And when I brought the 5 Cream Legbar home she tucked them in and was a happy hen momma. I realized that Legbars we're going to be to large for my setup. Silkie chicks came in Wednesday and I bought four home. Betty kinda was okay...
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    Silkies!

    The chicks came into co-op. I got four. So far all of the silkies I have had were black. I don't know what the colors are for silkies are but I got two dark grey and two light colored ones. Because they are silkies, I don't know if they are hens or roosters, but I know the won't fly over my...
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    Cream Legbar pullet check

    I have five chicks hatched 4/20. I am going to rehome them and want to be sure they are pullets. I hope they are all hens. Thanks The first light colored. Second light colored one. Chick with dark color and white spot. Chick Four, another dark one. Chick five
  16. featherpickingfool

    Cream Legbar chicks

    After realizing that the eggs my silkie had been sitting on were all dead this weekend, I went looking for chicks. The co-op had cream legbars. I talked to my sister yesterday and told her I was getting chicks today for my hen betty and if the only chicks I could find were big chickens, I...
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    egg question

    I had chicks last spring with my silkies. Last year I did not know how much I didn't know and my hen knew more. This year I started learning and I am a nervous wreck. I haven't been able to candle the eggs. Today I saw somethin. On the first egg I could see dark mass in shell and before I...
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    Move hen on eggs?

    I hatched my first chicks last Easter. I used eggs from my girls. I gathered the eggs that my bird was sitting on and put them in a wash pan. When it got closer to hatch day I put her in smaller dog kennel and put it outside of the coop in the run. When chicks were older I added a wire fence...
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    Silkie mix?

    My birds came from my sister. She told me they were silkies. From the first chicks I got one rooster. His name was Moe. Moe gave me two roosters. The one that I still have is Larry. "Lucky Larry" Moe and Larry have red comb and waddles. I have been reading that silkies have black comb and...
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    Silkies in the Garden

    I got my chickens a couple years ago. My sister had chickens and she was being invaded by bands of raccoons. They shot some of the coons, but the coons keep coming night after night. She said, she was getting rid of her birds. She couldn't handle dealing with the loss of her babies. That...
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