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Yes, I'm a member there tooThe link I provided is Andy Vardy's backyard poultry, Australia wide and there is also a breeders directory.
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Yes, I'm a member there tooThe link I provided is Andy Vardy's backyard poultry, Australia wide and there is also a breeders directory.
Awww great! Welcome, join in wherever u like, a lot of us are kindergartenersHi Everyone. Ive been a BYC voyer for 6 months since Ruby & Henri (etta) moved in. Thought i was time i jumped on board. Have learned alot from you guys. Not sure what i can contribute but you never know what happens. I should add that my heart has been won over by the girls, so feel like one of you![]()
Lol! Last friday.. funny funnyWow .. I cannot remember the last time I was sooo happy it was Friday .. oh, hang on, yes I can .. last Friday!!!Locknest4 congratulations on your little ones putting themselves to bed .. “we is clever big chickens now!”
Ashburnham Oh my .. those ducklings are just too cute for words!
Howdy Bethan and welcome to the thread. Are they Cochins or Pekins in your avatar .. they look gorgeous! I have a soft spot for Pekins, having a couple myself.
Poor thing! Hoping for a nice recovery - both physically and mentallyGoshawk is back, I was heading down the driveway when I saw something white sitting in the middle of the horse paddock. Thought , mmm better investigate . It was my poor little ' Tink ' , obviously the hawk had fumbled and dropped her there. She has a ripped toe and was bleeding and was a little traumatized by her unscheduled flight, but I think she will be ok. Silkies are notoriously difficult to sex but that hawk seems to always be able to pick the pullet amongst a sea of cockerels.![]()
Haha so true!
Looks great! Hope they do well. Cant wait for the pics!Omg I must have miscounted because I have chicks!!! I was sick last night so have only just gone down to check on things , 2 fluffy and one zipping that I can see under Fleur (she has 2 more eggs that I can't see without disturbing her) And 2 with pips under Padma the araucana. The ones under Padma were in the incubator but I gave up on it, wasn't holding temp, either too hot or too cold, and air cells were small despite running with absolutely no water after day 6 when it hit 80% :/. Any who Padma went broody so I decided she can have the incubator eggs as I expected them to hatch a bit late if at all. I think I'll still give whatever hatches today to Fleur, I'll see what happens. Now fluffy butts!!My set up for the time being. Fleur down the bottom and Padma up top, will have to move someone once they are up with the chicks.
will pop up more photos as they hatch![]()
Oh cool i didnt know u were in sa
Hi Toon,Hi all. My name is Toon, I live in Melbourne, Australia. I'm a new member of BYC and also very new to the chicken's world. I have recently got three chickens on last Friday, there is an Australorp, an Isa Brown and a White Silkie. I have been told from a person(family friend) who gave them to us that they are all girl and all three of them are about 16 weeks old. And today I just picked up an Partridge Silkie since I did a research and found out that you should keep at least two or three silkie chickens together. Now I have two questions and I would like to ask for your help please... - My first question has came up since I found out that you would not be able to tell the sex of your silkie until they are about 5-6 months old so I started to wonder that my white silkie could possibly be "A Boy". Could you please tell me what do you think? - My second question is... This evening when I brought a new girl partridge silkie in, and my white silkie came up to her and looked like they were both talking but then she started to jump on top of a partridge girl and kept pecking her non stop so I have stepped up and tried to stop her and put a new girl into bed as it started to get dark. What should I do if this continue to happen when they wake up tomorrow morning? Thank you so much in advance, any help or reply will be greatly appreciate.![]()
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