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Speaking of roosting Silkies, I had to move a (non-Silkie) broody from the goat house into the coop last night and discovered my lone Silkie has decided to be part of Team Roost all of a sudden. She used to sleep in a ground level nesting box but has seemingly decided she'd rather be off the...

I have Silkies who roost and those who don't. It's an individual choice on the bird's part, I think. Btw, I just gotta say....who doesn't LOVE Silkies? I only have one left. All mine are gone except that one little hen, but seeing pictures of them just warms my heart. I have lots of...

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Why didn't someone warn me that getting rid of your Silkies would be so....emotional? :hit I made the HARD decision to get rid of mine. I really need to reduce the size of my flock and the Silkies just aren't really needed around here. I originally bought them to brood eggs for me, but then...

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I did something similar. I stretched a giant tarp between our main coop entrance and a small covered shelter that sits about 10 ft away. My hope was that I could create a dry run area that would allow the chickens a path between the coop and the shelter. I pulled the tarp taut and secured it...

Here's the latest pictures of my brood. I moved them into the brooder with a MHP. They were in the sunroom but I felt like it was far too cold in there so we moved the brooder pen into the dining room. Chicks have been relatively active today but I feel too cruddy to go get some decent pictures...

Babies babies everywhere this morning! Today is hatch day! All 5 have already hatched! Yay! All are crosses. I had 2 white eggs (Blue Andalusians), 2 green eggs (Starlight Green or Ameraucana, not sure), and 1 blue egg (Easter Egger, Ameraucana, CCLB, or Prairie Bluebell, not sure). As I...

I've seen that before but it doesn't really tell you what you get when you start with a white egg.... All my (non-Silkie) roosters are either Easter Eggers, Ameraucana, Cream Legbar, or Silverudd blue. So basically all of them have at least one blue egg gene... Also what would you get if you...

I have some eggs (non-Silkies) scheduled to hatch on Wednesday (1/26)! Can't wait..... :) I only have 2 white egg layers (Blue Andalusian) left so I wanted to incubate some of their eggs. Of course, all the potential daddies are blue egg layer lines so who knows what color the offspring will...

So the therapy pet lady never contacted me this morning like she promised so I gave the boys to someone else who wanted both of them. They are now enjoying their new home.... And I am feeling relieved that I didn't have to cull them. I don't think I'm going to let the girls hatch out any more...

Well, some good news! My Hail Mary worked! I have at least 3-4 people asking about the two roos I need to rehome. The lady who wants them for therapy pets messaged again.... She works for a nursing home. Not sure if she wants them as therapy pets for the nursing home or somewhere else. She was...

Never heard of mewe... I will look. Sadly we don't have an animal shelter. The county requested a millage from the voters which was approved but then spent the money on the sheriffs department instead. Caused a ruckus... But still no animal shelter

wow...in a week, I've missed 20 pages. Ugh. Don't think I will catch up.... Just wanted to say that I did advertise my two Silkie roos on Craigslist. I got one person who reached out and said she was interested in them as therapy pets. Sounds great, right? Except that I've reached back out...

I just sent it to him.... Fingers crossed 🤞

I don't have Facebook but my DH does. I will ask him now

I may give it a try again as a last chance. I just hate culling any rooster but Silkies in particular. As I said before... It feels like I'm killing the family dog! Silkies are next level for me.

I tried the state thread a few months ago. Got no responses...but there aren't many people from Arkansas on here to begin with. I tried NextDoor (similar to Facebook). I did get a response from a lady on there who wanted them both, but after talking to her a few times it became very obvious...

Still haven't found homes for these two fellas.... 😭 I can't put the white roo back in the coop since Bruiser (my black Silkie roo) beat him up pretty badly. Apparently you can't sell animals anymore on Facebook marketplace. Not sure where else to post him... But if I don't find them homes in...

oh no! Sometimes you have to wonder what (if anything) is going through people's heads..... smh. It cost me about $15K to build the fireplace. It still isn't fully completed yet. Our mantel is custom milled walnut which won't be here until next week. Also, they put in some hearthstones...