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  1. B

    Do your silkies roost?

    Hi all! We have our first batch of baby silkies and I’m wondering as they mature what type of coop accommodations they will need. Will they walk up a ramp and roost along with my regular flock of chickens? Do they need a separate area to make a “cuddle puddle”? Do they need nesting boxes on...
  2. santafesilkie

    Silkie Sexing… Is it too early to tell? 8-9 weeks

    I’m guessing white is a pullet.. maybe… ugh idk.. and black is a cockerel. (just like my last two silkies). I do have a third that I’m 80% positive is a hen. ( I’ll take a pic later to see what you all think) What do you all think about these two though? They are about 8-9 weeks old. 🙏🙏🙏
  3. Manahil Asad

    Mites?!

    Hi there everyone! I'm a first time chicken owner and new to BYC. I have two lovely silkie hens, who are 4 months old. They live in a room inside my house but play outside each and every morning until dusk! I recently found out that there were mites crawling around them. (Yea, disguising, I know...
  4. TillyRoo

    Hello BYC Community!

    Hello all, My name is Tilly, and I'm from the Devonshire countryside in the UK. We are new to keeping chickens, we currently have 6 Silkie chickens (colours of which I am unsure of) but we've had them since they hatched and are very smitten with them. We had such bad luck with our eggs which...
  5. ChrissyMP

    Silkie Gender

    Hello, My black and white silkie are 19 weeks old and I’m pretty sure they’re both hens, but suddenly our black silkie has a comb, and our white one doesn’t. Is it normal for hens to have combs, or do you think our black one is going to turn into a boy overnight sometime?
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