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    22 days and no Chicks

    You could always candle an egg to check if there's any growth inside. I usually do it in a dark room with a torch shining it through the blunt end and if there is a shadow with veins around the edges, there's a chick. At 5 days there is a few veins branching out. At 12 days I can usually see...
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    Silkie Cross Thread!! PICS!!

    So, after seeing this thread I felt the urge to have some silkie x myself...so over the weekend I bought 2 white silkies (unsexed) which are now in a cage with my 2 phoenix x polish bantams (girls), a pair of silver sebrights and one poland pullet (it's a cross but you can't tell). Can't wait to...
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    Ready to go outside?

    Haha, sounds like they're doing well I wouldn't worry about putting them outside then
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    Chick Heart attack/seizure/idk?!?

    Can you get pictures? Honestly I have no idea what it is at the moment but if you go to your feed store (or wherever you got your chick crumb etc.) and ask them for some suppliments for the chicks then that might help. You don't get splayed leg from bullying and from my experience it's usually...
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    Ready to go outside?

    I think it'd be fine at four weeks. Maybe to try and get the use them to it you could put them out in a run during the day then bring them in at night this week? That way you can tell if they are feeling cold during the day, and make your judgment based on that. I, by a rule decide that if a...
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    Week old chick collapsed-HELP!

    I have a week old poland chick who was under it's mum then when I came out to check on them this morningI found a chick dangling from its neck from it's mums feathers because they were stuck togeather for some reason. I puled the feather out and held the limp chick believing it was dead. When it...
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    Need help with one day old baby chick

    Generally chicks are kept at 95 in their first week of life, so it depends how cold it gets in there at night. As long as it's warm the whole time I wouldn't see the need to put in a heat lamp and risk over heating it. I had a similar case with one of my chicks once when it came out the egg too...
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    Silkie/Cochins?

    They don't really look like a silkie cross to me either. Silkie crosses (as long as it's the F1 generation) have dark skin, usually have an extra toe to some extent, a bit of a puffy head and have the very fluffy EE/ameraucana looking necks. From the photos (though I can't see the feet) it...
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    Help!!! 1st time Chicken mom... Sexing and Breed Issues??

    For silkies they take up to 5 months to mature, but there have been hens who will lay as late as 8 months old. If he/she gets a big comb or alot of wattle development in the next couple months then it's probably a boy. Otherwise you'll just have to sit and wait it out I find that my cockrels...
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    How late is 'too late' to let a hen go broody?

    I agree with ChickenCanoe too. I've had a broody hen on a chick that hatched in the middle of winter. That chick is now larger than some of my girls raised in the spring/summer time and pretty much free ranged with mum after the first four weeks.
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    Help!!! 1st time Chicken mom... Sexing and Breed Issues??

    Silkies are notoriously hard to sex. Nobodys ever really sure until they crow or lay an egg. Looking at size I would say Sly's about 4 weeks old, but because of the bullying s/he could just be very small because the other chicks wouldn't let him/her near the food. Thank god you took Sly offa...
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    anyone in England ?

    Hello! I'm near Winchester and keep phoenix, poland and sebright bantams (and lots of crosses in between). I don't spoil my chickens half as much as you do with food, as a treat they sometimes get mealworms but otherwise it's just the usual and I don't have any problems with their weight...
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    Silkie Cross Thread!! PICS!!

    I want one! Hopefully I'll find a silkie somewhere near me to breed with my silver sebright
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    Anyone know if this is a cock or hen? Thanks

    It's not so much the colouring, rather the shape of the feathers. Cockerels haeckles and saddles have long pointed feathers (typically) and sickle-shaped feathers as their tails, wheras from the images yours seems to have the blunted feathers of a female. It's entirely possible (and very...
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    Anyone know if this is a cock or hen? Thanks

    There are little nodes where the spurs will be on both males and females, it's just that in females these (usually) don't develop. I do have the one girl with spurs so it's not impossible. But! if he's crowing he must be a he, despite the female feathering. I can't believe he's crowing that...
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    What kind/gender are my chicks?

    I agree with Kelsie on the sexes, no idea about breed though. Plus we don't get EE's over here which doesn't really help... Congrats anyway! The first pullet's a really pretty colour! :D
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    please help

    Usually the roo's a bit bigger but I've had a boy the same size as the girls before, though it could be because they hatched at different times of the year. The girls in spring and him in late summer/autumn. It varies I would say, but yes, usually their bigger.
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    Does anyone know if chickens can die of fright. We had a horrific lightning and thunder storm the o

    I know they can die of fright, as all animals can but usually it's caused by the heart stopping. If none of the others are dead, perhaps she was just more spooked or had some sort of heart defect and the storm set it off. Sorry for your loss :'(
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    Most humane. ?

    Breaking way neck is usually seen as the most humane way to kill a chicken. I, personally, have never put one of my chickens to sleep so I can't give you any first hand advice. Sorry about your girl :(
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