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  1. Silver Silkie

    HELP!!! CHICK ISN'T MOVING!!!

    Please help! So two days ago, we brought home our fifty two broilers for our 4-H project. They looked pretty healthy two days ago, but then again I didn't look over them as well as I should have. Yesterday, one of our chicks fell into the waterer and we took him out and dried him off. Today I...
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    Comment by 'Silver Silkie' in article 'Chickens & Winter Egg Laying and Lighting'

    Thanks for this article. It is very helpful!
  3. Silver Silkie

    Review by '' on item 'Orpington'

    We bought three breeds of chicks in April. 10 Buff Orpington, 10 Barred Rock, and 5 Speckled Sussex (to breed with my SS rooster). I loved the Buff Orpingtons better than the rest. I bought them as chicks for about $2.00 each. These little guys were the liveliest and the strongest out of all of...
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    Space Requirements for Broilers

    I kept twenty-five last year, but that was because I was the only one doing the project. This year my brother wishes to join me in the project, but our county 4--H requires a minimum of 25 broilers per member who wishes to participate in the project, so I'll probably end up building bigger or...
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    Best Chicken for meat that will keep producing?

    Haha...I need to work on my chicken breeds. :)
  6. Silver Silkie

    Best Chicken for meat that will keep producing?

    You can take a look at Heritage Breeds, but then you could also look at dual-purpose breeds to. These will work perfectly for eggs and meat. My personal favorite is the Buff Orpington. I ordered three different breeds last year and these guys were the largest in the brooder. They grew fairly...
  7. Silver Silkie

    feeding capons

    I don't have experience with capons, but I raised twenty five Cornish crosses last year. We started our birds on starter for the first week and then we switched them over to Purina's Show Broiler feed which has a high protein content and gets them nice and meaty. I've also heard that mixing...
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    will the ross 308 broiler free range?

    If you have Cornish Cross broilers, they will pretty much get fat and sit around most of the day. I raised twenty-five last year as a 4-H project and they just sat in the coop all day. I wouldn't keep broilers for eggs, because they are most likely to die, before they are even close to five...
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    Space Requirements for Broilers

    Hi there! I plan to raise fifty broilers with my brother for a 4-H project. We plan to build a 12 x 6 coop for them. We'll be showing them at the county stock show after they are 6-8 weeks old. Is this enough room? Should we build the coop larger? Thank you in advance.
  10. Silver Silkie

    How do I find 4h marketing information?

    I am currently a second year 4-H member in the sate of Texas. Here we do things a little bit differently than most states. (Where I live there are a lot of people who donate thousands of dollars for youth projects....) We are only allowed to raise market animals. Last year I did Broilers and...
  11. Silver Silkie

    Can anyone tell me what breed of goat this is?

    Hi there. We also live in the Texas Hill Country. From a person who is getting ready to get goats and has read every book she can find on goats, I think that this goat looks very much like a Nubian. Nubians have a 'Roman' nose like that and long ears. Goats generally need food, water, some sort...
  12. Silver Silkie

    Is this normal?

    Hello there. Your aggressive pullet is probably just trying to establish the pecking order. I would try setting up several feeders and waterers, but other than that I wouldn't do anything else. We had a similar problem when we brought our eight month old Speckled Sussex cockerel home. Our Polish...
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    Comment by 'Silver Silkie' in article 'That Place Where The Chicks Sleep'

    Thanks! :D
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    Comment by 'Silver Silkie' in article 'Cooped Inn'

    Great job! A very nice coop.
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    Comment by 'Silver Silkie' in article 'Red Cedar Show-Me Coop'

    Beautiful design! I love the red cedar idea.
  16. That Place Where The Chicks Sleep

    That Place Where The Chicks Sleep

    So two years ago, I found out that one of my neighbors kept chickens. She allowed me to come over to her place and feed her chickens scraps. I was hooked. I went to the library and read every book on keeping poultry I could get my hands on. After we moved to the country, my father and I built a...
  17. Silver Silkie

    Free ranging pros and cons?

    Hi and welcome to the hobby of raising poultry! I started raising chickens last year, but I read tons and tons of books before I actually got the chickens. We currently live in a rural area of three acres and have a highway behind our house. I have always free-ranged my chickens here and I love...
  18. Silver Silkie

    The Howrse.com (Online Game) Thread!

    Hi I'm Oak Creek Farm on howrse. Currently selling three Philosepher's Stones. PM me on howrse
  19. Silver Silkie

    Chicken Breeding Games?

    Ummm... I clicked on the link and it doesn't work....
  20. Silver Silkie

    Chicken Breeding Games?

    Does anyone know of any free, online chicken breeding games? (Please post links) Thank you!
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