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    urgent—baby chick question

    Hey everyone, We have a chick that hatched a few days early. She’s a Buff Orpington/Silkie cross. The other eggs passed candling tests, so we expect them to hatch, but in the meantime, our current early-bird is distressed. I’m going to call local farm stores to see if they have chicks in the...
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    Questions about incubating eggs

    Hello everyone! :) My Silkie rooster is 6 months old and seems to be ahead of the curve in terms of physical maturity (he started crowing at 6 weeks and started trying to mount the hens pretty early, too). His sister started laying eggs, so I assume he’s also reached sexual maturity. We were...
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    Buff Orpington Hen Limping

    Hey y'all! Long time no post. I hope everyone's doing well! So, I have a flock of six chickens. There are four buff Orpington hens, one silkie pullet, and one silkie cockerel. It seems that all of our hens have started laying at about 6.5 months (we assume so at least, as we get about four eggs...
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    What could’ve hurt my pullet?

    Hey everyone, I have six backyard chickens; one silkie pullet and one silkie cockerel (3 months) and four buff Orpington pullets (6 months). Last week, we noticed that one of our pullets, Henny Penny, had blood at the back of her comb and on her surrounding head feathers. My silkie cockerel can...
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    Is my cockerel trying to assert dominance?

    Hey everyone! I have some questions about my cockerel’s behavior that i was hoping someone might be able to help with :) My silkie chicken, Spark, is 3.5 months old. He started displaying signs of being a rooster quite early, and he’s wasted no time taking charge of the flock, even though he’s...
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    Introducing young chicks to flock?

    Hey guys! I’m back posting about my kooky silkie roo again! Spark is a 9 week old silkie cockerel, and Fern is a 9 week old silkie pullet. They’re getting bigger, and I know in a couple of weeks we’re going to start having to house them in the coop. I have four 5-month old Buff Orpington...
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    Spark, the Silkie chick :)

    Hey y’all!! I’ve talked a bit about Spark on here before, but I wanted to post some pictures of him as he’s grown up :) he was born this past November, around the 10th, so he’s roughly two months old. We recently found out he’s a baby roo, as he started crowing and his spur buds are starting to...
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    Likelihood of my silkie being a roo? How can I raise a gentle roo?

    Hi everyone!! Just the other day I made a post about my six week old silkie chick, Spark, and here I am talking about her again! I’m posting because I think she might actually not be a ‘she’ at all! I know that silkies are very difficult to sex when they’re young, and any early guesses could...
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    My chicks are not eating their new food—what can I do?

    Hey y’all! My six-week old chicks have been eating Mile Four organic chick feed because we read it was good for silkie chicks in particular, but due to some spillage we ran out of the current batch quite quickly, and we stupidly didn’t have a back-up of the same kind. We ordered more, but for...
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    Noticed odd eye color in my silkie chick—could it be Ocular Marek’s disease?

    Hello all, it’s my first time posting on here! I’m relatively new to keeping backyard chickens, and right now I have two five-week old silkie chicks. I noticed that my white silkie, Spark, has odd coloring in both of her (or his) eyes. The other chick in the brooder has ‘normal’ eyes. I’m...
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