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ilias_sp said:
Penny this is not exactly a silkie, is one of three hens i got from my grandpa, i got them mostly for brooding reasons.
Here is a photo of the parents of this "silkie like" hen.(altho the mother and some of the other babies of her have 5 toes like silkies)



Here is a photo of my pure sikie(young male)



The collection (i hope) is going to get a bit larger in the near feture! I would love to get some pure breed silkies and a couple of golden phoenixes(i had to whites but a dog killed my rooster when he flew out of the pen(the 2 white phoenixes where the only 2 eggs i managed to get from the buyer, and they were the first to hach in the incubator,male and female))
i also want to get a couple more sussexes, ayam cemany, and the list goes on..:p
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Crazy chicken math there! I hope you have at least half of a hectare! That is if free ranging is a big part of your feed program.
 
AllenK@new2this said:
Crazy chicken math there! I hope you have at least half of a hectare! That is if free ranging is a big part of your feed program.
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There is plenty of space in my backyard(half of it is for the chickens and half for our vegetables)
Im also at the end of the village, and away from main roads, i could easily let them out but im a bit worried about foxes, inside the fence i have my dog for protection, but outside im not that comfortable.
My grandma(she used to live in this house) had all her chickens free ranged outside, but never had fox problems because she had 3 small dogs within the chicken flock!
 
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Welcome to Backyard Chickens!

It looks like the chickens are waiting for the cat to flush out a mouse for them in the introduction picture.

Smart chickens!
 
ilias_sp said:
There is plenty of space in my backyard(half of it is for the chickens and half for our vegetables)
Im also at the end of the village, and away from main roads, i could easily let them out but im a bit worried about foxes, inside the fence i have my dog for protection, but outside im not that comfortable.
My grandma(she used to live in this house) had all her chickens free ranged outside, but never had fox problems because she had 3 small dogs within the chicken flock!
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I hated those buggers, they always seem to show up at like 3 AM and start singing their stupid fox song(eidted---banshee shriek)! I feel for you the coyotes we have at my current residence usually vocalize at an appropriate hour of the night.
 
ilias_sp said:
Hello everyone, my name is Ilias, am from Greece and im raising some chickens for eggs, meat and aesthetics! when was younger i always had chickens/ducks at my grandpas house(grandpa loves chickens too) so im not that "new" with chickens.
Now that i finished my studies and i moved back in my village i decided to start chickens again,
On march 2017 i bought my first incubator and started to inubate eggs of the breeds i liked the most.(brahmas,sussex,australorp,phoenix,silkies). Now the adults that i have are
3 brahmas(4 male/2 female)
9 australorp(2 male/7 female)
4 phoenixes(2m / 2f)
1 female sussex
1 male sikie
1 female silver sebright
1 male cochin (hatched from the australorp eggs, the egg was given to me by mistake buy the guy).
3 female silkie/frizzle(the father is frizzle but the mothers are like silkies, but not)(i got them from my grandpas chickens),
the only males that i have seperated are the 2 brahmas because i dont want them to harm the 2 female brahmas(or the australorps). one of the other 2 brahmas is 4 months old, so he is no threat to anyone :p
these days im gonna seperate some of the females so i can collect fertile eggs from the right roosters.
Its good to be in a forum like this, ive searched many times diferent questions on google about chickens and every time i was getting in this forum! so i decided to be a member!!
Here is a photo of my 2 red phoenixes (and the siklie like breed)keeping an eye on my cat when he realises the mistake he made to enter their teritory :p :p
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Welcome to BYC!
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Beautiful cat and chickens. BTW I’m studying about Greece! It’s an amazing place!
 
G’Day from down under Ilias :frow Welcome!

I hope you enjoy being a BYC member. There are lots of friendly and very helpful folks here so not only is it overflowing with useful information it is also a great place to make friends and have some fun.

If you would like to share more Pictures and Stories of your flock, you have come to the right place. BYC’ers never tire of these and do not back away slowly or commence eye rolling when the photo album or home videos come out ;)
 

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