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I know silkies are hard but I am not experienced with silkies. They are all the same age give or take a few days. Number two has enough of a tail and is twice the size of the others so I think roo. The other two I hope are hens but have no evidence.

One of my seven week old chicks has a crop issue I think. This morning she was acting lethargic and seemed skinnier than the others. I fed her some scrambled eggs mixed with grower feed mashed up with electrolytes. She drank the liquid around the edge of that but didn't eat much. She has been...

I have a hen who decided to go broody after I started eggs in the incubator. She is a first timer so I don't know what she will do. My question is can I give her some eggs that are six days from hatching from the incubator so she can hatch them or should I just give her new eggs. Thanks for any...

I have a hen who has always managed to mess up her feet. For the last week or so I have been keeping an eye on one of her toes. It is black and looks dead. She isn't picking at it and she is still going out and scratching around with the rest of the flock. She is eating and drinking too. It has...

These three hatched a little over a month ago. Their mother was a silver EE and their father was a black Australorp. I first thought just the gray one was a rooster and now I think one of the black ones is to. The two black ones hatched within an hour of each other and the gray one hatched a day...