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My girls (and boys) got Solar Electricity today!! we will now be able to keep their water from freezing and provide them with some day-extending light that will also take the chill off in this crazy artic blast we are having (-3* + windchill).

That is awesome!! What a great idea. I might have to stalk my neighbors pumpkin decorations too!!

I sent out an email to all I work with asking for 'pumpkin innards' for my chickens saying, " I can only eat so many pumpkins and the girls just LOVE them so."...........Odd, I only got one response

WOOHOO!!! Its a 6 egg day :) Just 4 more of you girls owe me an egg

So, looks like the consensus is it IS a Silkie...and it is a HE not a SHE??

OK I got this silkie as a new hatchling from an Amish farm in PA (I got two, one died within 48 hours). Now this is what 'it' has grown into (hatched march 2013). My boyfriend and his friends call Uncle Si a buzzard. I must say she/he does not look like any other Silkie I have seen. She does...

Been a while since I have had time to check in.......but all my 'mother hen-ing' has paid off. 2 of my 10 girls have been laying for 2 weeks now!! @ eggs a day. Still spending time at the coop explaining to the other 8 girls they should ALSO be giving me eggs daily.....but they just stare at...

I am trying to be patient for eggs from my girls too!!!! the wait is so tough!

I wondered if it wasn't some form of protective behavior...but facing the wall and having their backs to everthing else isnt very safe in my brain???

I notice every night when my girls go into the house to roost they all face the wall.......it is bizzare looking. So, why dont they face out into the house????

"WAIT!!! Don't throw out that smashed tomato; we can give it to the girls for a snack!" Said many times to friends asking chicken questions: "NO, you do not need a rooster to get eggs.....you only need a rooster if you want fertalized eggs."

I put their trough waterer on bricks...cuts down on the bedding in the water mess. But drinking from the nipples would be SOOOO much better!! I am thinking is I completely remove all other waterers they will HAVE to get it.....but dont want them to overheat....dang chickens!!!

My post is more of a what my chicken s HAVE NOT DONE!!! They have yet to figure out their chicken nipple water-er. I was so excited to get that done and in so they would have clean water at all times.....and they silly girls will not even look up to be curious about the thing!!!

My girls had hummus for the first time....it was a HIT!!

I am new to chickens too....but Yogurt is what I do when I seen loose stools and that always seems to fix it.

Thanks so much.

Had just a little spaghetti sauce (meat) left over--not enough to save (about 2-3 tbsp) So I thought I would offer it to the girls see if they like their momma's Italian cooking :) They all bum rushed me and tasted then looked at me like.....WHAT IS THIS??????? That was it for the sauce-after...

Said to my son who professes he is starving and wants dinner: "I will start our dinner as soon as I get the girls their dinner." Yep, first chickens then humans at my house

OK we have tried mealworms with great success....looks like I am going to have to get my girls some crickets now with all the rave reviews.