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She's looking much like Storm did (with different comb). She's going to be a stunner!

Your thoughts re: next year she can find her own eggs seems reasonable then...and she can find homes for those chicks. You aren't involved on any way. Stick to those guns rather than be a softie.

Teddy's coloring is coming through. Fluffy is recessive white. Curly's chick may (more likely WILL) bend up being blue and frizzled. Fluffy's babies....Teddy clones?

My flock is coop and free range, no run. When I integrate babies (I do from day 1 in the coop), the adults do NOT let the babies out of the coop for awhile. They actually are protecting the babies until 1. The babies know the warning calls and 2. The weather is warm enough to not be an issue for...

Black chicks with headspots will be barred so barred plymouth rock, cuckoo marans, or a barred egger. Plymouth rocks have yellow skin. Marans have white skin (and all but the cuckoo will have at least some feathering on the legs). Brown leghorn are the classic chipmunk striped chicks with...

Are all the silkies dark?

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Looks like it.

At 15 weeks, there should be pointy hackle/saddle feathers. I'm not seeing any. Comb is red, but no where near as big as I'd expect on a cockerel that age, pea comb or not. The red across wings....there's a cockerel only color that shows up there. It's darker red that what that bird is sporting...

Today's project Used leftover dough to make thisBaked it....broke it for the chickens.... Not taken today

If any of the blue egg females have black skin, it tosses that whole concept out the window.

@Ponypoor and any hatching from not silkie eggs from not black skinned hens will be Bert...and I THINK (not positive on it) pullets.......unless it's like barring and the hen has to have it and the roo not.... research time again. Ok..@nicalandia knows a LOT about silkie breeding. If I'm...

Then you could do quite a bit with that 1/4 acre mentioned above. If you want bees and/or chickens, then go bigger. 20 acres is manageable by 2 people and could potentially produce enough to sell through things like farmer's markets, helping to pay for external meat.

Blurry butts in a cuddle puddle

Depends upon soil quality and water supply