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Put my fledgling silkie bantams out with rest of my hens and they accepted them pretty well. However, it appears our habit of throwing out fruit and veges to chickens has attracted rats. Worse yet, it appears that one or more of them have developed a taste for young fledgling silkies! Rats...

I know Silkies are notoriously hard to sex before six months old, but any guesses would be welcome. This is Velveteen. Gotta love the poofy tail! lol. Think she is about six weeks old in picture.

I have a cochin with frizzle gene that is about six weeks old. It is smooth feathered, but I need to know if it is a roo or a hen. Any info/guesses would be welcome. ok...could not resist the shot of feet and feathers. I would guess hen....but just do not know cochin breed very well.

We accidently took over a classified thread from Yashar so we are moving thread here. We ordered some Silkie eggs from Chookschicks and when they hatched 2 or them did not look "right". They had yellow/grey legs and beaks instead of black they should have and no feathers on legs..... So we...

Got some eggs hoping to get a silkied ameraucana...these have the gene, but not the silky. Anyway I love ameraucanas, so that is ok. But do not know the signs of male / female with this breed. Anyone?? First is Twilight: A little under 3 weeks old. and here is a picture of Twilight's...

So the first hatch is barely 4 weeks old and the Second Hatch arrived between 9:00p.m. on Wednesday and all but the Marans have hatched. (It is Friday morning.) We have 15 new babies to love. My friend and co-owner showed up yesterday and spent the day with us. We decided that she would take...

We have 9 chicks from our first hatch and they are a mixed bunch. 2 silkies, 4 cochins with frizzle gene, 1 black orpington, and 2 surprise south americans. Any guesses on gender would really help. This is Lavender, one of the South Americans.

I have been around chickens since I was little, but we never played with them or really handled them. They were food and egg layers. I did not know what I was missing. I "henned" my first chick in high school. The mom had set her eggs too late in the fall and a frost killed the only...

We hand raised this white silkie and about a week ago she started dragging her right leg. She is almost 6 years old and I suspect she slipped on ramp on way down or had a stroke. Eyes clear, feathers healthy...just cannot walk on the leg. She hobbles around anyway, but in very limited way...

I was raised in Eastern Oregon on small farm and on the outskirts of a small town. We had chickens on the farm, but they were egg sources and food, not pets. We had geese in town/outskirts...they were pets. Not sure I remember why they eventually left our possession over time. We moved to...