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I was recently gifted 7 silkie chicks from a breeder and thought it would add some much needed genetic diversity to my small flock of purebred silkies. I live in a remote area that makes it very difficult to import new genetics. I didn’t realize until I picked up the chicks that this breeder...

Hi everyone! I wanted to start a thread for Silkie/faverolle breeding project I’m starting. I have a white silkie rooster who’s larger than usual. I have a thread on here about him and have been keeping his biggest offspring to try to start a line of LF silkies. I also raise salmon faverolles...

Yesterday I noticed one of my 7 week old salmon faverolles poop looked Watery and bloody, so I started them on Corid water in case it was coccidiosis. All were acting fine. Now this morning when I went to feed them one of them was hunched and puffed up in the corner of their hutch, tail down...

It’s day 17 for my quail eggs and this egg is the first one to start unzipping. But the edges of the egg look like they’re caked with brown sticky stuff. ☹️ on the side where the beak is emerging, the brown stuff is actually dripping out of the egg. I’ve hatched 2 other batches of quail eggs...

Does anyone have insight about this egg? It’s a shipped egg, and was packaged extremely well. Each one individually wrapped in thick foam. It wasn’t like this when I put the eggs in the incubator 2 days ago… I noticed this stuff appeared a couple hours after I started incubating- and it was...

Hi everyone! I don’t have much experience breeding chickens yet, I’m just getting started. But I was wondering about the genetics of Easter eggers. Im hoping to get into breeding salmon faverolles as soon as I can get some chicks I like. I have 3 whittings true blue female chicks that I’m...

Hi chicken people! 😍 I have this silkie rooster that I got about 4 months ago. He’s about 1.5 years old. I’m not an expert on silkies at all so I’ve been reading up and trying to familiarize with the breed standard. Do you think he’s close enough to the standard of perfection to breed, or is...

Hey everyone! It’s my first time asking a question on here, so bear with me. I hope this hasn’t already been asked or anything. I’m hatching my first chicken eggs! In a little giant incubator with egg turners and fan. I noticed this egg when I candled them on Monday (day 7) I thought I saw an...

Hi I’m Julia! I’m new to BYC and I’m getting back into raising chickens this year. I also am just starting out with quail. Right now I have around 40 young quail I hatched in December, 3 silkie chickens and rabbits. For years I kept some black Australorps and Plymouth Rock hens I got as...