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  1. draebear

    Chicken races...any suggestions?

    We are having a cookout this Sat. and our guests are very excited about our first annual chicken races. We have 5 silkies, almost ready to start laying. We have a 1/4 acre yard and we are trying to figure out a fun and humane way to enjoy fun with our girls. I saw a video of chicken races where...
  2. draebear

    Silkie Behavior

    I got 5, 8 week old silkies about 6 weeks ago and I love them. This is my second experience with chickens, but first time with Silkies. They are great, but they won't let me pick them up. I was told by the woman who hatched them and cared for them until 6 weeks that they were handled a lot...
  3. draebear

    Advice on birth defect

    One of the 12 fertilized silkie eggs I bought hatched, using one of those cheap styrofoam incubators (I do not recommend them - could not regulate the temperature). The chick hatched about 8 weeks ago with a leg deformity. Her left leg sticks out to the side and she cannot stand on it at all. We...
  4. draebear

    attached to chickens

    I got 5 hens as chicks last spring, for the first time ever. I'm a reformed city-girl living in a semi-rural area in VA. My daughters and I raised them from 2 days old. Last Saturday early morning a fox burrowed under the fence. My husband and I heard the squawking as one ran past our bedroom...
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