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    URGENT Is this normal? (Potentially upsetting pictures)

    This little chick hatched earlier. I can't decide if its shell contents/poo or intestines, This is the chick http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b345/tomcat1/OrpChicks016.jpg http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b345/tomcat1/OrpChicks015.jpg
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    Can someone help me id my silkie colors (3 weeks old) and explain how!

    These hatched from ebay eggs, sold as coming from white, black and partridge stock. So I expected to get white, blue, black, partridge and maybe splash? I seem to have hatched a ?blue, 2 buff (this confuses me!) and 2 ?partridge? This is them @ 3 weeks with their hatchmate [sex and quite what...
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    What on earth is this?!

    The ? light sussex chick with the head dot now looks like this http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b345/tomcat1/Chicks009.jpg at just over 2 weeks old. I don't think s/he is a light sussex any more but I am foxed if I know quite what s/he is. I hatched it out of a mix of eggs sold as light...
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    Silkie Chicks (Partridge and Blue/black)

    Chick 1 Chick 2 Chick 3 Chick 4 Chick 5
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    What Am I?

    This little chicky has hatched and is now an honorary silkie as its hatchmates are all silkie bantams. Head side on Head dot Back of chick Side view Wing tips Any ideas?
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    Latest hatch for eggs?

    My eggs are now on day 22 and i've had 6 hatch (5 out of 6 silkie bantams, and 1/17 assorted non bantams) Is it pretty safe to assume this is all that will hatch since they hatched from day 19-22 (last chick hatched lunchtime) will no signs of pipping coming from the other eggs? I've left the...
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    Chick Colors Help needed!!

    Here are my chicks (at the mo.. today is day 21 and theres another 11 eggs in the incubator) and I'm having a bit of confusion over what color I've hatched! These came out of eggs sold as Silkies (Bantams) and I have no reason to suspect they aren't. They have black skin and 5 toes and look...
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    Help a chick or not?

    I have an egg that pipped this morning that has done nothing since. The chick has made a 2mm diameter circle in the egg and got rid of the shell, but has the membrane left. My humidity is sitting at 81% and I'm not sure quite what to do now? Do I leave the chick and see what happens? Or do I try...
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    Is this safe to use?

    http://www.supremepetfoods.com/science_carefresh.php I got a small pack of this at the petstore yesterday with the view to putting it on the floor of the brooding pen since it said dust free and sawdust can be dusty but is it safe?
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    Orpingtons and House sizes

    What size/dimensions would be needed for a house and nest box for a flock of 6-8 Orps? A friend is building a coop and I said i'd ask here for him as he wants to make sure they have enough space
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    Newbie to the site with a first time incubation in progress

    Hiya I'm Carla and i live across the pond in Jersey, Channel Islands I'm new to chicken keeping and my (hopeful) starter flock is in the incubator at the moment. I have 6 silkie bantam eggs (black, white and partridge) and 12 mixed light sussex,white maran, black and silver maran and light...
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