A chick-a-boom 🐥

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Hi Helen, thanks for an interesting introduction! And thanks for sharing some pictures too, beautiful birds.

 

[janiedoe]

Welcome to BYC, Helen. Your birds are beautiful!

 

[Raisin_The_Chicken]

hello and welcome to byc! glad u joined!

 

[sourland]

Hello and welcome to BYC.

 

[HelenWxW]

Hiya, Helen, and welcome to BYC!

I raise and breed silkies, and oh how I wish you were in the states as I'd be asking to buy hatching eggs from you! Stunning!

Thank you for the welcome

Silkies are seriously beautiful to me, I just hatched some for the first time ever. Tho, I found them a bit delicate in the early days since some were lethargic.

I think that the next time I will be getting silkies I will get already hatched, 5 days old, grow them by myself and then collect my own silkie eggs to hatch them.

From 10 silkie eggs, 5 eggs hatched (from the rest 5, 3 were unfertilised, 1 got killed by other hatched chick by pinching the egg too early and yolk went out and 1 died after peeping). From 5 hatched, 2 are well, 1 passed away and 2 more are in my living room on rehabilitation with cat plushie toy xD - one of them has 6 toes on one leg).


Still even with this odd experience, I would hatch them again.

 

[CurlyChickenGirly]

Welcome to BYC! Cute photos!

 

[janiedoe]

Thank you for the welcome

Silkies are seriously beautiful to me, I just hatched some for the first time ever. Tho, I found them a bit delicate in the early days since some were lethargic.

I think that the next time I will be getting silkies I will get already hatched, 5 days old, grow them by myself and then collect my own silkie eggs to hatch them.

From 10 silkie eggs, 5 eggs hatched (from the rest 5, 3 were unfertilised, 1 got killed by other hatched chick by pinching the egg too early and yolk went out and 1 died after peeping). From 5 hatched, 2 are well, 1 passed away and 2 more are in my living room on rehabilitation with cat plushie toy xD - one of them has 6 toes on one leg).


Still even with this odd experience, I would hatch them again.

I'm sorry for your losses. Maybe the parents didn't have good nutrition and/or good genes.

 

[HelenWxW]

I'm sorry for your losses. Maybe the parents didn't have good nutrition and/or good genes.

Most probably. I gathered eggs from village. But hey, I am here to learn something new every day.

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello and welcome to BYC!

Nice introduction! Adorable photos. This is definitely the place to be when you keep poultry! Best wishes with all your plans, if you have any questions about anything along the way, be sure to ask.

Welcome to our community!

 

[Tookie]

Welcome to BYC! Nice to meet you, we're glad you joined us.