Gilly C
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my new arrivals5 white minature Silkies and 1 full size the darker coloured 1 back left
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Davbro
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How cute, will they be fat enough for christmas. 
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Gilly C
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hardly  but with blue skin and black bones we don't fancy eating them, though I am told they taste like pheasant  we do have 8 guinea fowl chicks and the males are destined for the table
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MissMuppet
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Awww, they look so cute when they're that little... I don't think I'd wanna eat them if they have black bones and blue skin, how strange!
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Nannyp
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ooh Gilly, that's a late hatch.....hmm, am thinking i could be using my fertile eggs for table birds now rather than for quiche
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Gilly C
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I bought a trio of Black minatures from Kittoch and he gave me these 6 eggs (the last 1 was only half formed )I put 1 of mine in as probably an old wives tale but I was told odd numbers mean the hen turns the eggs more evenly !!! I have them in the greenhouse which has automatic vents and they have a broody to keep them warm, maybe you could convert 1 of your buildings ? they have a run 2ft x 10ft so that should keep them ok for a while and as soon as the toms and cuccumbers finish they can have all the floor space
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dingsy
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They're so cute-but haven't they got big beaks!?
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Nannyp
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Oh dear.....I can feel slippery slope coming on......I already have 2 coops at this end of the garden, and we heated one of them for the Sasso's earlier this year. It would mean I can incubate some more table birds now instead of waiting til Feb.
Perhaps I should go and see what the others say on the Poultry forum 
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MissMuppet
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Here are two silkies I saw in France at the Vallee de Singes...
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Gilly C
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if you got cracking now would you have 1 ready to eat for Christmas dinner ? how long before they are big enough to eat ?
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Nannyp
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It'll take me a week or more to collect enough fertile eggs...I am thinking about it NOW 
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Gilly C
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I would go for it only lose a quiche or 3 and all that lovely roast chicken
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Nannyp
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