I'm a newby here.... My black silkie hen surprised me with serious setting on 13 eggs her first time around.
New Years Eve, there were 9 healthy babies hatched. Unfortunately, the 10th baby was rolling around stuck on its back so I nudged it back under its mother. That one ...got smothered...
My neighbor next door had all her chickens eaten by coyotes. Some kind men came in, dug a thin ditch on the exterior perimeter of the fencing, put 6 inches of chicken wire into the ground, then bent the other half outward, parallel to the ground, That way no predator could dig under the...
Dear Silkie Rooster owner,
I live in Snohomish WA, USA .... have a white and a blue silkie hens..... being on the lookout for a beautiful white silkie rooster to accompany them. I have 4 roosters lined up that I was going to look at tomorrow.
It's horrible what has happened to your chickens...