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    Silkieflocks Member Page

    Hello from Washington State everyone, and welcome to our small farm. We have a few different types of critters hangin' around here and enjoy them all. We have a few different breeds of chickens but like the Silkies the most! We started out with three four silkies(2 white hens, 2 roos' 1 black...
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    Setting this morning due 2/13, anyone wanna hatch with me? Got a PIC!

    I have eggs going into lockdown 2-13-10 also!! I set 54 eggs. they are a mix of rir,buff, ee's, and silkies. I have already hatched 54 chicks out of my first batch and they are still hatching and pipping!!! 62% hatch rate so far and it keeps climbing. I have eggs locking down 1/31, 2/06, and...
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    HELP! Religious subjects.......

    Quote: You would be surprized how much children understand about Jesus. They have a childlike understanding, while adults let their intellect get in the way of their childlike faith.
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    We got a really freaky chicken!!

    what kind of wheel do you use? diamond?
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    How wide have your temp swings been and still have something hatch?

    I had mine go up to 108.something and I still had 8 hatch. I dropped the eggs, my son dropped the eggs, my nephew roughly rolled the eggs into the corner of the henhouse, and on and on and on...
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    We got a really freaky chicken!!

    Do they make something that is faster than a file to cut a beak off? I want her to keep laying. bandsaw?
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    I think I might have an impacted wisdom tooth? :(

    I tried to pull my own tooth out with vice-grips once. That is how bad it hurt. It was middle of the night. I cracked the tooth and relieved the pain. The next day I went to the dentist and he finished what I started. I know you are all shaking your heads right now...but I had to do domething...
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    The "invisible" thread

    Why is this thread blank? There is like 11 pages of nothing here?
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    We got a really freaky chicken!!

    She is in perfect health and eats normally, I watch her eat and she is impressive. She uses her tongue!
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    Feather picking >:(

    I have heard you can put a red lightbulb in the henhouse. I makes so details in chickens don't show up as well to each other. also, somwhere I read about putting vinegar in water, but read up on this before you do it!!! I am only suggesting things that I have read somewhere but have never...
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    Hi from South Africa

    from the great northwest, Washington State !!!!!! The only place in the world that doesn't speak with an accent And we know you are from out of town if you carry an umbrella.
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    I wonder about the necessity of over-paranoism concerning temp & humid

    Quote: SHE PUT HER BRA IN THE FRIDGE AND IT GREW VAINS??? I GUESS IF SHE HAD I IT SINCE DAY ONE IT WOULD BE GROWING VAINS... SORRY, I COULDN'T RESIST. THAT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME TO BUILD A FLOCK! ONE AT A TIME?
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    I wonder about the necessity of over-paranoism concerning temp & humid

    Quote: SHE PUT HER BRA IN THE FRIDGE AND IT GREW VAINS??? I GUESS IF SHE HAD I IT SINCE DAY ONE IT WOULD BE GROWING VAINS...
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    I wonder about the necessity of over-paranoism concerning temp & humid

    Quote: OMG .... I about peed my pants when I got to the part that you dropped the whole carton! I was laughing so hard ... Geeeeezzzzz, what ELSE could possibly go wrong! Anyway, thanks for sharing your story! It's still less trauma than what the USPS does! PS I never mentioned the...
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    I wonder about the necessity of over-paranoism concerning temp & humid

    I need to catch up here. BYC was down for me and I missed out on a lot of conversation. In reply to bravo, as to my "family discount" I got a great deal anyhow! $4.50 is a great price for 8 chicks. I have silkies due for lockdown in a few days now. I almost can't stand the waiting and this is so...
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    I wonder about the necessity of over-paranoism concerning temp & humid

    Quote: I already have the next batch going in the 2nd incubator I just finished! It was a sharp looking wine cooler I modified. I have 126 eggs going and they go into lockdown in a week and a half. I cant wait but time is just a cruisin' by! I have an assortment of RIR, RIR/buff, RIR/EE, and...
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    I wonder about the necessity of over-paranoism concerning temp & humid

    Ok. I went and bought some eggs from my uncle 20 days ago and put them in my homemade incubator. This is after my nephew "played pool" with the eggs while gathering them. The temperature outside was below freezing when we went to get the eggs and my nephew picked one up off the frozen ground and...
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    CONTEST: 50,000 BYC Members? Guess Right & Win $20 Gift Cert or GFM

    byc will have 50,000 members 1/31/2010 if it is not taken
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    What was your biggest egg ever collected? see mine!

    4 oz. on the dot!!! RIR egg.
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    Silkie,buff and RIR eggs goin' in

    I have 6-1/2 dozen eggs going in my incubator tonight! I have some eggs in my other incubator but I am not expecting a very good hatch rate. They are going into lockdown next saturday. I have only a few silkie eggs that I found in the coop(I have no idea how long they were there as they were...
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