Hello other chicken enthusiasts.
I am a fifteen year old homeschooler, and I have had a small flock of silkie chickens for just under a year now. I started out with two silkie chicks, which turned out to be male and female. The hen died after about four months, and I was quick to purchase some hatching eggs so that the rooster wouldn't be lonely for too long.
I hatched a dozen eggs in the incubator, and I ended up with four hens, and eight roosters. Half of my flock died of marek's disease, leaving me with five roosters, and two hens.
We slaughtered the roosters (leaving the original rooster that I started out with), and the two hens are sitting on six eggs each now.
As I am new-ish to chickens, and I am trying to learn from my mistakes, you will probably see me asking questions about vaccinations, and so on. I am doing extensive research online, but any additional help will be greatly appreciated.
Greetings Fellow Chicken Lovers
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Killerbunny
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Please feel free to ask any questions you like, we will be more than happy to help out.
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Good day and welcome! Too bad for disease, i'm glad you has some success in spite of it. Good luck to you on the next group.
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Welcome! Lots of Silkie enthusiasts on this forum so you are in good hands.
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Welcome to PTO! Lots of helpful people here to answer questions and/or enable your addiction :D
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Welcome to PTO AniPearn! This is a great site to actually talk to people about anything chicken related you want to learn about! Awesome to see a fellow young fancier!! Hope your hens hatch lots of fluffy butts (and you must show us pictures when they do 
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Exciting story to read AniPearn! Hopefully the hens do well and you have lots of :smiley-char026:
Welcome to PTO!!
Welcome to PTO!!
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thought i had posted earlier.....welcome!! Lots of wonderful people here happy to help! Ask away!
And hope the hatches turn out well!
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to PTO. Lots of experienced chicken people here to help out with any questions you may have!Good luck with the hatch!! :smiley-char026:
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