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Currently, I have an all silkie flock. The majority of the flock are either hens or chicks but I do have two almost-6 month old mystery chickens that could be roosters or hens. I thought this is way too young for either of them (if they are roosters) to fertilize eggs, but I cracked one today...

I got a bunch of new silkies on the 26th of October and one was broody when I bought her. I have no rooster nor fertile eggs, but she came from a flock of roosters so the day after I got her, Sunday, the 27th of October, I was shocked to see she had laid an egg. I decided to let her sit on it...

My two six week old silkie chicks were just fighting like roosters. Does this mean that they are both roosters? They did the whole "showdown" stance and it was identical to what I have seen roosters do in the past. Can hens fight like this too? Or are they guaranteed to be roosters?? Thanks!

I had never had an issue with cocci until I bought two chicks from a local breeder. One of the chicks died from what I think was cocci about a week after I bought it. The next day, I bought corid just in case that is what it was after I saw the second chick poop a bloody drop. That second chick...

Today is day 28, of course it would seem that the eggs aren't going to hatch but I was just curious to see if they even developed so I did the float test in 100 degree Fahrenheit water. All five of the eggs that did not hatch floated low in the water in the way that described them as still...

What do I do? Do i risk opening the incubator to remove the egg? Its day 20 and no pips so far... Should i risk it or leave it??

I have a beautiful leghorn rooster for sale. He is about a year old. He is seven dollars. I am located in Mechanicsville, Va and have no experience with shipping live birds so I will do local pickup only. I also have a barred rock/silkie mix rooster for sale. He is five dollars and is about a...

A few days ago, I noticed that one of my broody hens had a large mass right where its neck and body joined. I was really scared and thought it was a tumor, but after a little research I am relatively certain that it is her crop. I came to the conclusion that she just had a full crop that she...

I have a five week old silkie chick that has been living alone in the brooder for a week and I have a broody hen. Three chicks hatched today, and I was wondering if I could try integrating him in with the other chicks... What are people's opinions on this? I am not so much worried about him...

I set twelve eggs exactly three weeks ago and labeled them with their names: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, Asteroid, and Meteor. So far only three have hatched and I am worried that no more will. Ten of the twelve eggs were in the fridge prior to their...

Ughhhhh i am so dumb!!!! I have a brinsea mini advanced with three eggs in it and today is their one week mark. I have been out of town a lot this week, and today I just realizes that i have been forgetting to refill the water fr the humidity level. I checked it just now... And: dry as a bone! I...

I was returning some eggs to my white hen, when I felt an eggsized lump on her. I lifted her slightly to put the eggs under her and when I did, I felt a huge circular lump. At first I thought it was an egg, but I am 90 percent sure that that is not what it is. Is it a tumour? A cyst? An abscess...

Okay, so I am just treating one little chick with the corid. I am ninety percent sure that he has cocci as I saw him poop orangish glob yesterday. And his brother died three days ago with symptoms such as lethargy. I am buying the powder today from Tractor Supply. It is the 20% kind. I give my...

I had two three week old silkie porcelain chicks and one just inexplicably died. I came home from dinner to find him dead. All day he had been very lethargic. All day, he would just stand under the heatlamp with its eyes closed and wouldn't move or open them. He opened them only when I picked...

I am looking to buy a calico silkie rooster or a calico silkie chick that could potentially turn into a calico silkie rooster. I have yet to find someone who is selling calico silkies so if you are, please let me know by PM or replying. Also, I may be looking for a buff silkie rooster as well...

I took pictures of four of my six chicks just to see how this works. Here is the first one... I think that he is barred rock mixed with a little silkie, mainly I just want to know their genders; and they are all just a little over two weeks old: The next one, I think is a leghorn mixed...

Recently, I incubated six eggs because I thought it would be fun to watch a hatch. It was fun and the chicks are now two weeks old. I have posted them: free to good home on at least five different sites including Craigslist and under the For Sale forum on this site. If I had known that it would...

Not sure if this is where I post this; I already posted it under for sale but they are free. I am located in Virginia about thirty minutes from Richmond. I have six one week old chicks that I cant keep. I hatched them out of an incubator thinking it would be fun to watch them grow ( which it is...

This year I thought it would be fun to incubate some eggs and to watch them hatch. Of the seven that I set, six hatched. They are each one day old. Two of them I think are purebred leghorns, but I am not one hundred percent sure. The other four might be part silkie, but I am not really sure. Two...

Recently I had a broody with seven eggs under her. Of the seven, five eventually did hatch. At first, only three hatched and then came a fourth. But the fourth was only a few hours old when momma hen decided to show the chicks around. The other three were about two days old, but the fourth was...