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  1. renovationmom

    Need to cull-At what age can you tell if a Silkie is Bearded?

    I have 12 babies that are 8 weeks old, and 5 of them are starting to develope beards. 7 of them do not appear to have beards. I only have 1 hen out of 6 that is not bearded, and my Roo is beared. Should I give these babies more time, or is it safe to say that these will not be bearded? I need to...
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    Rooster sitting?

    I have a 6 month old silkie Roo, he just started to crow, and is starting to mate. Yesterday, when one of my sitting silkie hens left her eggs to have a snack, my Roo sat on her eggs while she took a break. When she returned, without any exchange of conversation, he stepped out, she went back to...
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    Fly Control, anyone find something that works, and is chicken safe?

    The flies are really bad here. It has been very hot(107, for a week now) I have a mister on in front of the coop from 11am-7pm, it is the only way I can keep the flock cool. Unfortunatly, the DE I use, which works very well normally, does not work right now with the mister going. Will the...
  4. renovationmom

    Hatching Silkies, well.....Trying to hatch Silkies

    I have silkies eggs, from my own healthy flock. I incubate clean(free of poop)eggs at 101-102 in a clean(cleaned with bleach and water) still air, dry incubator(no water) with an automatic egg turner. I wash my hands before and after handling eggs with anti-bacterial soap. I candle at 7 days...
  5. renovationmom

    Molting questions please

    Do chickens all molt at the same time every year? How many times per year do they molt? Does it vary by breed, age, weather? How long does a molt last? How do you tell the difference between a molt, a over bred hen or a hen being picked on?
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    Strange Egg????

    I found an egg today, outside the nest box, very small, (even for a silkie) odd shaped and a chaulky type shell. I have two silkie pullets, 6 months old. They are not breeding yet, could this be an egg from one of them? When do they start to breed?
  7. renovationmom

    Spraddle Legs, Slipped Tendon, Dead in Egg, What went wrong?

    This is my second hatch with a LG still air manuel turn incubator. First hatch had no problems, chicks are doing well. I am using eggs from my own silkie flock, 5 blood lines, all three roosters not related to hens. My hens have hatched and raised many healthy chicks(8 this season). I chose to...
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    DETERMINED MY SILKIE FLOCK HAS A Respiratory Infection! HELP!!!!!

    With BYC forum members help, and some research, I have determined my flock has a Respiratory Infection. Which one, I am not sure of, but treatment of the infected recommended is the same for any, Culling. It started when I purchased 5 mature silkie hens, and now all but one has had to be...
  9. renovationmom

    Suffocated Chicks?

    I had 13 baby chicks, ranging from 1 to 3 weeks old, in a plastic swimming pool, located inside my laundry room. The room stays about 70, and I have a brooder lamp with a 100 watt bulb pointed down on one side of pool. It got down to about 40 here last night, which is not normal here in Texas...
  10. renovationmom

    Eye injury? or infection?

    I just purchased 5 mature hens. One hen I noticied after about 2 weeks, had one eye closed. She is eating and drinking, and active. She has no drainage from the eye or beak. I thought she may have injured her eye somehow. Now, another of the hens has the same thing, in one eye. Also, one of my...
  11. renovationmom

    Do broody hens keep laying when you remove eggs they intend to hatch?

    I have 7 silkie hens, and they all went broody at once! This has not only upset the boys, but I have been collecting eggs to incubate, and I am lucky to get 1-2 eggs per day, sometimes none at all. When a hen is broody, and you continue to take her eggs away, will she stop laying eggs all...
  12. renovationmom

    Hatching shipped eggs!

    I just received my hatching eggs via USPS. I have read the hatch rates can be lower due to handling in the mail. Can anyone give me advise to make my hatch rates better? I am using a still air little giant incubator, and turning the eggs myself. I have had a very good rate of hatch, no hatching...
  13. renovationmom

    Incubate or allow Broody Hen to hatch shipped eggs?

    I just ordered my first set of hatching eggs, 5 plus some extra's if available(these are rare silkie colors I do not have). Now, I know the odds are lower with shipped eggs, due to handling, and since I do not have many of these eggs to begin with, I am wondering if I take my chances with the...
  14. renovationmom

    Mud Stuck To My Silkies Toes

    I feel like this should go under"Chicken Care" but I could not find an index for this-only for baby chicks. Thank you all in advance for your advice! I have raised silkies as pets, for 5 years now. I recently saw an ad, someone selling silkie's, 1-2 years old. I was in want of some mature...
  15. renovationmom

    Rolling Eggs

    I have raised Silkies for 5 years now. Started off as pets and fresh eggs. Then I let my hens hatch a few eggs on their own. Now, I bought my first starter incubator, a LG still air, manuel egg turning. I did my research, most from this forum. I placed a modest batch of 17 eggs into the...
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