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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
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Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 16 2007 : 10:39:40 AM
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I have a couple bantam silkies mixed in with my other laying hens..I have a very mixed up bunch of banties...they are fun to watch..for sure different than the more barnyard hens..and a special favorite of my youngest daughter..they are good layers but sure don't get broody enough to set on eggs. I have hatched some that are for sure from them..but under another hen. Mine are a buff and a blue.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Jun 18 2007 : 6:04:19 PM
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Silkies!!! Fianlly someone else who has a passion for these cuties.
Mine go broody at the same time too. And since I only have one nest box, two will set the whole time together and tag team it.
One wants to set right now, but I keep pulling the eggs and she gets mad.
I'm ready to get rid of a few non bearded and start over with purer stock. I only have 2 bearded and 5 non-bearded. The best bearded ones were murdered by dogs a few years ago and I haven't been able to find anyone around here to get more.
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sherone_13
True Blue Farmgirl
2460 Posts
Sherone
Evanston
WY
USA
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Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 07:40:07 AM
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It's nice to talk to fellow silkie lovers. I think their faces are sooo sweet. Their little eyes just speak to me, somehow. Mine are also cranky when I take the eggs. Thing Two (weird name, I know) has taken to pecking at me when I go for the eggs.
They are often in the same nest, and I worry that they will get to hot in there.
Have you experienced your silkies being on the bottom of the pecking order? Especially when in with larger hens.
Mine are black silkies and the bigger hens have plucked all their head fuzzies off. I am presently working on building a coop, just for them and expanding the flock. Hopefully, they will be happier away from the "mean" girls.
I'm rambling about chickens........OMG, what has my world come to????
See ya in the Hen House.
www.taylorscountrystore.etsy.com
http://sheronesgarden.tripod.com/
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 08:28:32 AM
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The world has come to a very good place when we can sit down and chat about chickens for a while! I loved collecting eggs when I worked at the ranch and the chickens always were in the back ground, clucking, and cooing and bragging about their eggs! I thought they were sweet. I can't wait till I can have my own that I raise from chicks so they will know me and let me pick them up!
Alee
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