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The frizzled hen looks more partridge to me 🙂 She’s a very pretty girl but the orange tint and the pencilling on the feathers is not something I’ve ever seen on my chocolates, either in the adults or the juvies; my chocolates typically have a very even color with no orange leakage. There is...

I know silkies are very tough to sex, and I know nothing is 100% till someone crows or lays an egg, but just for kicks I’m wondering what you guys think about this almost 3 month old silver partridge? The crest looks female but the breeder I bought it from breeds nice quality silkies and often...

It was nuts, the two chicks were just stretched out and looked like they were dead or as another person wrote they looked like they were sunbathing. They were in a state of deep sleep. When I knocked the tank sideways from bumping into it the two that were in a deep sleep jumped up and started...

They seem to only go to the warm end for short periods of time but when they sleep they tend to stretch out on the cooler side of the tank. The two babies that died were stretched out under the lamp when I startled them out of a sleep and they started squealing and spasming when I knocked into...

Hmm I thought that’s what I had done. I’ll try pasting the link here again. This chick is definitely not acting like it’s sick or in any pain. It does loudly chirp if I walk away from it for long periods of time. Very very loudly. It’s only been doing that since it’s siblings died. I have the...

The little survivor is acting alert, and when I lightly tap on the glass she is showing interest and is interacting. She’s eating and drinking. I have their water directly under the lamp so it stays warm and she doesn’t get a shock from drinking cold water. Here’s a video of her taken just now...

They’re hanging out now at the end of the tank that is 80 degrees and humidity is 29%. Maybe they’re too hot? My room is about 60 degrees, so I’m worried about experimenting more with the temps

Thanks so much for the information! The remaining chick from this hatch has pooped four times since I made this post. I have them on paper towels now instead of puppy pads because I noticed the pads had a very slight fragrance so I’m concerned now that the pads could’ve caused them to breath in...

I usually keep them in a 75 gallon trough but my house is just too cold and the heat lamp wasn’t sufficient to warm them up while they were in there. The older chicks do fine but I have too many losses with younger chicks. I added a heat plate but the heat plate kept getting bumped and would...

If I did something to cause their death I can certainly appreciate being told about it so it doesn’t happen again! It’s not knowing what went wrong that I have such a hard time with! In the future I’ll definitely refrain from giving meal worms the first week! Is there anything I can do for the...

Also wanted to add, the chicks were moving around comfortably, they were not huddled up. Even when I found them laying stretched out they were quite a distance away from one another. The two chicks I have in the tank now are moving around comfortably and are not huddled up. Usually I suspect...

I had three absolutely gorgeous little silkie chicks that hatched out yesterday. It was an easy uncomplicated hatch and babies were up and running around within an hour of hatching. My house is older and not well insulated so to better keep the heat in I set the chicks up in a 20 gallon long...

Ok well that was a LOT harder to get that picture than I thought it’d be 🤣 turns out chickens do not like you pushing their fluff away from their face to get a picture of their combs 🤷‍♀️ Here’s the best pics I could get of the combs while pushing the feathers back. I think you can see it’s...

I will get one and post a picture of the comb🙂 and I’ll try to get some better pics of the color as well, this one is very light colored but it does have a blue/grey tone to it, especially it’s back. Anna Whybrew was its breeder and she has shown her lavenders and placed with them, maybe that’s...