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Hello, I have a group of about 16 silkies. They are about 6 months of age. 1 hen has just started laying eggs about 1-2 weeks ago. Anyways, 3 in the flock are roosters and crow and try to mate. The issue however is that they are able to only mate to the same 2 or 3 hens. On the rest, the hens...

Hello, I have about 20 Silkies free range and they all have been going into their coop at dusk. Almost always they have to fight to get in since the first few who get in usually stand near the small coop opening to look outside as the others come in. The last few days several of the...

Hello, I have a BBS pen with about 18 BBS Silkies. I am starting to figure out which ones are boys and which are girls. My question was when I confirm which are boys I wanted to keep only 1 rooster for the girls (should be roughly half of the 18). Which color do I choose? In other words which...

So I have a big pen with BBS. However, I had a few silkies that are white, buff and a couple partridge and have a spare pen . Which colors would they phenotypically produce if I had buff x white or buff x partridge or partridge x either/ both other colors. I know the genotype will not be pure...

Hello, I have about 20 silkies from 3 months to 3 wks that have a large freerange space and a night have started to go into my coop. My question is that floor is mesh wire (of course the side areas below the coop are extremely protected so the poop of the chickens goes straight down to the...

Hello, Like the title says, I want to look for What to plant in my garden that is the most efficient (as far as productivity to feed to my silkies)? It is the winter but I live in extreme south texas so cold is no problem at all, in fact highs usually are in 70 and 80 hitting 90 commonly. I...

Hello, A family member of mine has 4 silkies, 2 boys and 2 girls, he gives me the eggs to incubate. Since 1 of the girls is white and 1 girl is black and the 2 boys are black, I only wanted to keep the true black colors (since if I keep the white looking ones, I might get black genes which...

Hello, Just wanted to inquire if someone knows about this. My 1 month silkie has a small bald spot on his head, it looks bald doesnt like hed been picked on. Anyways just wanted to see if it'll go away or permanent, etc. Or causes? if any or just genetics thanks

Hello I just hatched a batch of silkie assorted colors, 2 of them have their beak on the lighter color, sort of tan color and their feet are light colored too. These two chicks are buff by the way This is from a reliable private seller on ebay which ive bought from before, and just wondering...

Last year hatched 6 silkies, 5 turned out roosters. Anyways I sold 2, and there are 4 left (3 roosters and 1 girl), so I am only keeping 1 rooster for now (since I just hatched out about a dozen new chicks). I want to know about the comb (to help me decide which to sell), bc they all have...

Today is day 21 and Im in the process of hatching 14 silkies. One of the last ones pipped but spend hours and hours with no activity. I decided to rescue it and the membrane was dry, which was preventing it from getting out of the egg. Anyways so I noticed this reddish nodule coming out of its...

I have 13 silkie bantam chicks and they are 1 week old. I noticed that one of them had a hard poop stuck to it's butt. When I removed it I noticed its butt had bright red blood. I had read about Coccidiosis and I don't know if it could be that. I don't know what to do, or give it or what could...

I have a female guinea fowl mixed in with my silkies. I recently found out that one of my chickens carried what is known as Infectious Coryza. Can it infect my guinea fowl??

One of my two month old silkies has what I think it to be a cold. It has been sneezing a lot and has mucus all over his nostrils. I put him inside the house and kept him in a warm bed. However, when I woke up to check if he was doing fine, I noticed he couldn't open one of his eyes (entirely...

My silkie bantam chick swallowed a piece of thin yarn (fabric) and was trying to get it out of its mouth. Unfortunately it got extremely stuck around its tongue. I thought I had cut it out but as the weeks passed by I noticed it would do something like vomiting movements. It is eating well and...

I purchased 15 silkie chicken eggs online and I decided to make a homeade incubator. I had it set three days before the chicken eggs arrived. The temperature was at 100 and the humidity at 55, when they arrived I put them in, the second day I was candeling them and I noticed nothing was...