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    6 week old silkies- genders?

    These guys are 6 weeks old- I think the first white one is a roo, cuz of the pronounced wattle. But I don’t really have much experience so I could be wrong. The black one looks like a pullet to me, the buff one is MASSIVE, but I can’t tell myself if it’s a pullet or a roo. What do you guys...
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    4 week old silkies- gender predictions?

    Hey! I got 6 silkie chicks from ideal poultry and they are 4 weeks old. I know it’s hard to say for sure with silkies but does anyone see any strong possibilities that any of these could most likely be one or the other? The single buff chick I have has no leg feathers but is the LARGEST one...
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    2 week silkies - crusted eye, swaying head? SOS

    Okay so I got silkies from ideal poultry in the 27th. 8 of them. 1 died in shipping- 1 died second day. Seemingly of nothing! But I know that’s just the nature of it sometimes. One of my chicks had pasty butt and I cleaned it for days- It had a minor vent prolapse. I made sure to put Hydro...
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    Baby silkie…maybe prolapsed vent?

    Hi! this is my second set of silkie chicks this year and all are doing fine- but one of them, I did clean it’s Butt off the first day I got it, just bc there was a bit of dried poop, and I didn’t want it to get any worse. Dried it off gently, went back under the heat lamp with its friends. I...
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    New silkies!

    I took some advice from some people on here and went with ideal poultry this time- they’re a few hours away from me and only one died in transit - I think he just got stepped on a lot, but everyone seems healthy, one has this string hanging from its butt. The other keep pecking at the string and...
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    6 week old silkies

    Hi! I have two silkies. White one is 6 weeks- dark one is almost 5 weeks. I’m thinking the white one is a cockerel but these are my first chickens so I could be wrong? I ordered two feather dna gender kits, gonna do them this week. But what do y’all think???
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    Bored chicks who are corn fanatics

    Sorry- a lot of questions I’m about to unpack here 😂 My two silkie chicks are 4 & 3 weeks old and seemed a little bored in their playpen setup so I googled if I could give them snacks or something new and read that if I chopped up sweet corn and gave them a very small amount it was ok. Well, I...
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    I think I got scammed…

    So I am a first time chicken owner and I felt like I did a decent amount of research but obviously not enough as you’ll see….lol. I was looking online for local hatcheries honestly but couldn’t find anything close to Dallas, just places hours and hours away. So I looked up some “big online...
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    Chick alone because the others died

    I have one silkie out of 3 now. The other 2 in the last 48 hours have died (I explained it more in detail in my last thread) my question is what do I do for it?? It’s alone and SCREAMING. I feel like it’ll probably die too from stress. So sad I can’t believe this has been my first experience 😭
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    Coop setup advice! Help a first timer 😅

    Hello! I know, I know, everyone says not to buy the crappy little cheap coops online or at tractor supply and listen I totally agree with y’all, I wish I had the knowledge to build a big boy coop and I honestly might now that I’m learning so much from peoples post on here, but I tried to make do...
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    First time chicken mama (starting disastrously)

    Hello! My name is Luna 👋🏼 (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, three days ago (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I had 3 but now I have two 😭 (3) What breeds do you have? Silkies (4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? I...
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    5 day old silkie is dying (I think) :(

    Hello, I just got my very first chickens, 3 silkies. They got here Thursday and 2 were a tad bigger than the 3rd. The smaller one was definitely a little less active but eating and drinking electrolytes and the crumble is 100% small enough for them. Today I found the smallest one roughly 15 min...
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