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    Breeding White with Black & Partridge with White?

    I live in New Zealand, & there are not that many Silkie breeders here, so most of them keep their pullets & hens .... so it's proving really hard finding the colors I want (I'm quite new to breeding Silkies). I've ended up with two white silkie cockerels of 6.5 months old, & their father who is...
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    No difference between pasture raised chicken eggs and caged chicken eggs.

    I'm right with you on this. Both my husband & I refuse to eat eggs or anything else from caged chickens. I keep my Silkies in good sized runs, apart from 2 smaller coops & runs that I use for newcomers or for my little chicks when they first go outdoors for the day, coming back in at night ...
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    Breeding Partridge with Buff???

    Oh sorry ..... senior moment :)
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    Breeding Partridge with Buff???

    Thanks for that. I'm in New Zealand, & only 2 other breeders are working with partridge, that I know of, as it doesn't appear to be a color that breeders like or want to work with. The two breeders don't want to part with any of their hens, understandably. I do know one lady who bought in six 8...
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    Breeding Partridge with Buff???

    I have a lovely almost 15 week old partridge boy, who I am keeping for breeding. He's got nice type & color, including a black breast, but his crest is mostly black with orange only towards the back of it. I do not have a partridge girl to breed him to. I am quite new to Silkies, & all I have...
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    Recommendations for safe weed-killers nearby to coops & runs, please.

    I should have guessed that was the reason. Wow! Thankfully the one & only time I have ever used it was about 11 years ago. It used to be the herbicide that everyone I knew used in their gardens.
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    Recommendations for safe weed-killers nearby to coops & runs, please.

    Hi Mary. Good idea about covering it with black plastic, because it's summer here in New Zealand where I live. We've had some very hot days here recently, but windy too. Wood chip mulch is expensive here, & the area is a large mound covered in a vigorous weed vine which I imagine would just grow...
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    Recommendations for safe weed-killers nearby to coops & runs, please.

    Thanks. I could give that a try .... I'll be boiling the kettle a lot, as it's quite a large area. I can't pen around this area because its a large mound of around 5 feet high, covered in an awful weed vine that grows really quickly & spreads everywhere. It's already growing up the mesh walls of...
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    Recommendations for safe weed-killers nearby to coops & runs, please.

    I live in New Zealand, & all Roundup products have been banned here ..... I don't know why.
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    Recommendations for safe weed-killers nearby to coops & runs, please.

  11. Villa delle Rosa Silkies

    Recommendations for safe weed-killers nearby to coops & runs, please.

    We can't put the chickens in that area. It's a high, large mound which is covered with a rampant weed vine that a chicken could very easily get tangled up in or even strangled. We don't let our little dogs in that area, for that reason. My silkies don't eat a great deal of weeds when they are...
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    Rats in Run

    We've checked all around the coops & there are no holes that a mouse or rat could get through, but of course they could chew through the wood, so we'll be checking around the coops at least twice a week to see if there are any signs of gnawing. All of our coops are on legs, so a bit less...
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    Rats in Run

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    Rats in Run

    When you say they can nibble on chickens, I presume you mean chicks? So far we haven't had any chicks in that run. I hatch & raise my Silkie chicks indoors & they don't go outside until around 4 weeks of age for the day, & only permanently at around 8 weeks, & not in that big run as of yet. My...
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    Rats in Run

    The poison is in the garage, which is not in the same area ...... but I suppose if the roo attacked a rat that had eaten the poison, then he might be poisoned too. I had not thought of that. My husband set up a trap next to the hole that had been dug, on the outside of the run, & has put some...
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    Recommendations for safe weed-killers nearby to coops & runs, please.

    We have an area of weeds in the area that our Silkies' coops & runs are ..... we do allow our Silkies to free-range twice a day, under supervision, as there are cats around ..... but they don't go into the area where there is a mound of weeds, quite near to one of the coop & runs. We have weeded...
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    Rats in Run

    Our Silkie rooster was crowing loudly half the morning, which is unusual for him, so my husband went to check, & saw two rats scuttling out of the run, & a pile of dirt from a hole they had obviously dug to get into the run. I know they would be after the food ..... could they transmit any...
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    Anyone like the brinsea brooder plate?

    I've used the Brinsea heating plate for two groups of 6 hatchling Silkies, & they love it. I've never had problems with pasty butt & I do check daily during the first couple of weeks. My 3 week old Silkies will use it until they are 6 weeks old. If they are not underneath it, they love to use...
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    Mareks? Is it too late for our hen?

    I'm so sorry to hear about Dottie. I was just thinking, if she will not drink, & chickens can get dehydrated quite quickly, you could try giving her pieces of watermelon .... my Silkies love it, & it's a great way to rehydrate a chicken who is refusing to drink. I'm in New Zealand, so it's...
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    Partridge Breeding Towards Showing.

    Thank you. The white chicks who I would breed with this partridge boy are from my adult white silkie pair, & I have no idea what is in the background of either of them. I got the roo when he was 4 months old, from a lady who had bought him from someone else, thinking he was a pullet. She knew...
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