We don't exactly live in a tract home neighborhood, but we are in the suburbs. Our girls are in a small raised coop and run that is tucked up to our house and is separated from our nearest neighbors by our driveway ad their side yard. Their bedroom window faces the coop but we've never had...
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Hehe, I waved when I walked by, but you were chatting up a buyer and I didn't want to interrupt a big sale! Was Heather there? I was going to say hi, but I never saw her, not that it would have been easy to find someone--a friend of mine came to buy a half dozen layers and we walked...
The swap was HUGE this year! This was my third (maybe fourth? Who can keep count...) year and it just keeps growing. In past years the kids' bouncies were set up in the middle of a big open area in that back (past the roller pigeons and kind of where the woman with all the bunnies and guinea...
I hatched 3 silkies back in mid-Feb and one of them also had a huge vault. Seriously, HUGE! It was like there was a fat lima bean balancing on her head. I was really stressed for her because I figured her brain must be squeezed in really odd ways. Was it all up in the bean? Was part of it...
Glad you got an answer, and I can see why you thought she might be a Wellie--she looks just like a white-earlobed, lighter (weight) version of my Welsummer!
Little One is most certainly a boy. Sorry.
As far as the rooster development question, I have had the same thing happen a couple of times. I hatch small batches of eggs (I have an R-com mini so I hatch 3-5 eggs at a time) and twice I've had three egg hatches where there was one obvious male...
No expert here, but those are pretty significant combs on all three of your Silkies. Are they showing any signs of sparring? I've got three 2 1/2 month-old silkie chooks and two of them have been play fighting since they were wee chickies. All three of mine have smaller combs than your lot...
As a kid I spent time on my aunt's farm and she had converted an old horse stall in to a chicken area. The stall had half-split barn doors to a small outside paddock so they had stapled chicken wire around the existing fencing and over the top of the run and left the bottom door open to the...
Here are my three 7wk old babies. They are so much fun! Thanks in advance for the help .
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#3 full body (he was shaking, those aren't freaky feathers )
They are not siblings--they came from different parent stock entirely so I can't...
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not cross-bred, just poor quality.
I agree, poor quality as far as show, but probably high quaity as far as pets
Yes, that! On the plus side, I would love my pet silkies to have clean feet--my boys (and I ) love to snuggle the chickens and those feet feathers tend to hold any poop...
We bought a wooden, shingled dog house on sale (reg. $119 bought for around $85) then raised it up on 2x4s. At first we made a wire door to cover the existing dog house door and were going to cut a hole in the floor for the chickens to get in and out of, but then realized how much coop room...