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  1. niazai_thechickenlife

    Getting our new cockerel and additional pullets

    Tomorrow we're picking up our new cockerel, Pushpa! We went with the kids to choose earlier this week and he had a friend who's been on my mind all week. Being the impulsive person I am, I already sent a message to the hatchery that I would love to take both, if he's still there. Now I don't...
  2. niazai_thechickenlife

    Hello and Salaam from Belgium!

    My name is Aylin. we bought 5 silkie babies in april 2025. One has died from an unknown cause, the rest are thriving. They're free ranging all day every day, with our 3 cats protecting them from predators. It turns out -> they're all hens (what are the odds??). We're currently looking for a...
  3. niazai_thechickenlife

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  4. harvestmoonica

    Hen or Rooster? Breed Questions? Updated Pics!

    We have had a very busy past couple of weeks so we thought skipping posting a week of updated pictures would be reasonable! Kyle has been sick for the past week and I just had surgery yesterday, so we've been feeling pretty run down! Last night I sat down in a chair in the backyard and Kyle was...
  5. harvestmoonica

    Hen or Rooster? Updated Pictures and Some Questions

    We appreciate all the kind replies to our posts! We're so happy to be able to share our new backyard hobby within this community! We wanted to share our updated photos of our young flock and ask some questions about our new additions. Over the weekend, we took a road trip to a farm where we got...
  6. A

    Silkie gender

    I know they are young but any guesses?
  7. Chickenwithnobrim

    Old silkie red face???

    Hi so my older silkie hen is 5 or 6 years old, (breeder didn't know if she was 1 or 2 when we got her) has been getting red in her brow and wattle, but otherwise is fine, eating drinking and pooping. I don't know when it started because the past few weeks has been rough with a sick, then dying...
  8. K

    Intro for me ^U^

    Hi y'all I hope to get to know yall. 1. I am kinda new, only kept chickens after moving to Austin Tx. 2. This year, the number went down, but I currently have 5 silkies, one blue egg mix, and a rouge rooster. 3. I really like to focus on color egg layers. They are more fun 4. For me, I really...
  9. harvestmoonica

    Hen or Rooster? Easter Egger vs Starlight Green Egger? This Week's Updated Pics!

    Some more pics of our flock incoming! We seem to be a bit confused about our most recent few that we got at Tractor Supply a couple weeks ago if you guys could lend a hand as to your thoughts! There was a bin that had Easter Egger and Starlight Green Egger pullets in it at Tractor Supply. Kyle...
  10. KurtRyanGrehlinger

    Hey grehlins, meet Fluff Nugget!!!

  11. chirpnburp

    16 week old silkie

    For Mother’s Day this year, I picked up 3 silkie chicks for myself at a local swap. The first one started to crow around 8 weeks old, second one started to crow a couple weeks ago (this one wasn’t a surprise, it is a satin and had a very large straight comb), and the third I’m just not so sure...
  12. Y

    Roos or Hens?

    Can you guys help me sex some of my chickens that im confused about? First one is an ameraucana, 6 months old. Second one is a silkie buff Orpington mix, 3 months old. Third one is the same as the second one, also 3 months old.
  13. Chicken_Trainer2007

    Can a regular silkie feather chickens produce a satin silkie?

    I couldn’t find any information about this online so I was wondering if you bred a regular show silkie to a satin silkie and kept a regular silkie feathered chick from the pair, wound that chick produce satins in his/her offspring making the silkie you held back “het satin” or will it just...
  14. C

    Chick’s back is featherless?

    This one hatched yesterday and looked like this today. What do we do? How do we help them? Any advice is appreciated. This is one of our silkie chicks, hatched with a piece of shell stuck to their back if that's any correlation. We think they may have rubbed the feathers off, they were still wet...
  15. KailuaSilkies

    What color is this silkie? 13 weeks

    The darker one is 13 weeks and seems to be a pullet. But her color is unlike what I’ve seen before. I say she’s dark chocolate with ashiness but my husband says more black/salt n pepper coloring. She is beautiful and tiny and a little skittish. Always has been. Fairly certain she is a girl. But...
  16. S

    What color are these 2 silkies

    These r 10 week old silkies except the satin roo might actually be older as crest started growing over a week before the others and crowed 3 weeks ago for first time. I know I have 1 black (crow), 1 blue (Sasha who I thought would b maybe but grew darker), and either paint/ splash( dizzy) who...
  17. harvestmoonica

    Updated Photos (Again!): Hens or Roosters?

    We are back from our honeymoon and it looks like our birds have already grown so much in just a few days! Also, we added a few new friends to the flock! We're feeling like Cotton might be a rooster (so hard at a young age, especially for silkies as we're learning) but there appears to be a V...
  18. L

    Prolapse tissue

    I have a 5.5 month old silkie who tried to lay her first egg. She might have pushed too hard that her insides came out. I managed to squeeze the egg out the prolapse sack but now dealing with the aftermath of keeping prolapse inside her. Picture included. is the yellow part still part of her...
  19. D

    Silkies or mixes?

    Hello! I’ve just hatched these beautiful babies:) I’m not sure if it’s even possible to tell this young, but I got these hatching eggs knowing they could be silkies or silkie mixes. The person I got them from said her silkies tended to stay with their own but she also kept a svarthona, a hmong...
  20. harvestmoonica

    Hen or Rooster? Updated Photos with Ages

    Some updated photos of our flock that includes their age and breed. Thoughts on hen or rooster for our flock? We're pretty sure Bonbon is a rooster... We're not allowed roosters in the city we live in 😭 Thanks in advance!
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