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Really nice, where did you buy your silkies?
At the time the only place that had them was Efowl. I bought 15 straight run day old chicks. They sent 22. One was gimpy and died about 5 days old, the other somehow jumped out of the cage they were in and my cats found it. It wasn't pretty. Of the 20 that were left, 13 were roosters. I gave away 12 of the roos. I lost 3 hens to the hawks in my yard. What is left started laying eggs last month. These were the VERY first eggs the hens layed. I am amazed at how many hatched!! Here they are before I started getting rid of the roos, about the time they started crowing.
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Here they are a babies.
 
At the time the only place that had them was Efowl. I bought 15 straight run day old chicks. They sent 22. One was gimpy and died about 5 days old, the other somehow jumped out of the cage they were in and my cats found it. It wasn't pretty. Of the 20 that were left, 13 were roosters. I gave away 12 of the roos. I lost 3 hens to the hawks in my yard. What is left started laying eggs last month. These were the VERY first eggs the hens layed. I am amazed at how many hatched!! Here they are before I started getting rid of the roos, about the time they started crowing.
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Here they are a babies.
aww, I love me a silkie. That's terrible ..all the things that happened! And so many roosters? I have to watch for hawks too. Have has them fly right over my head. Have only had a Ferrel cat get one so far. Man, she was hungry. My only Heritage RIR hen out there at the time. :/
 
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