Posts by mammasilkie

it comes as a eye dropper. i dont know if tractor supply would have them, my mom is a vet tech so i got it threw work but im sure if you took her in for a visit they would get you some.

i had a andalusian do the same thing, when i would open her eye it had a big white alser on it. i used neomycin and polymyxin B sulfates and dexamethasone ophthalmic suspension (tried triple antibiotics but it didnt work) twice a...

yea, i have also read this but in my personal experience with silkies the babies have extra toes or messed up legs. this might have just been a bad gene in my flock though. 

yea, i cant really tell but in the first picture theyall look like hens but in the second the gray kinda looks rooish. does it normaly stand taller then the others or lead them around and is it more talkative?

your welcome. and im not an expert but have had a lot of chickens so there is a possibility i am wrong, this is just what im getting from the pictures.

looks very rooish! thick legs, holds itself straight up, and its face is pretty red.

how old? its face is red and its top hat is kinda all over the place and with hens they tend to be very rounded so id say roo.

they all look like hens from the pictures, the gray one might (and i use that very lightly) be a roo but without face pictures i cant really tell.

i would say its starting to look alittle rooish but its very early to even guess. i also got my chicks from meyer on the 21st of last month. i ordered 16 hens and got 17, none have died or gotten sick yet and only one is looking...

Quote: Originally Posted by BaileyJean  If I bred it back to its dad, wouldn't I get more lavenders (if it is a lavender)?Because its dad must carry the lavender gene. I didn't know that some splashes do not have...