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post #17211 of 35377
4/25/12 at 6:54pm

 

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Alright all... I have a silkie chick, it is falling to grow, but it is active, just half the size of its fellows here at a week. It is not any bigger now than when it hatched. It eats, and drinks, has a problem going forward, but it does go forward especially when it wants to get back under its mama. Its head is also shaped a little weird... kinda like... like a baby when it first comes out and the top of its head is squeazed all funny... Like that. Well anyway... Should I give it some vitamins? How much? Should I take a pic? I mean it literally is the same size as when it was hatched 5 days ago...

Quite frankly, I don;t notice growth during the first week.  It if is eating and acting normally, then I wouldn't worry.  It probably has a vaulted skull.

 

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post #17212 of 35377
4/25/12 at 6:56pm

 

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Hi! 

I apologize in advance if this has already been covered.  This thread is too long for a newbie to catch up on.  :)  If this has been covered and you can point me to a page or another thread, please do! 

My question is this.  Does anyone sell bearded silkie chicks that are sexed?  My town won't allow roos....  :( 

 

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 My Pet Chicken does DNA sexing, but there is a minimum depending on where you live and they are a bit $$ imo.  But they do sex them there. No idea if they are bearded or not, though.........

 

I don;t think it is DNA testng--not sure how they sex them, but I've heard of way too many that weren't pullets, that were ordered and paid for as sexed pullets to think they use DNA.

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post #17213 of 35377
4/25/12 at 6:59pm

 

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Thought I'd share some pictures from today big_smile.png

 

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Orange Sherbert and Truffles 

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I hope my little Peepers R. Fluffybutt looks like one of these (brown) gorgeous chickens when he/she grows up!!

Are they both considered Partridge?

Orange Sherbert is gorgeous too!

 

 

No, Orange is some variation on buff.

 

 

 

 

Sonoran your the one who swore Orange Sherbert was/is a splash partridge. He does have splashing in the wings, and remember he did come out of a partridge/blue partridge pen....the father to him was a blazing orange and red partridgey roo. 

 

 

Hmmm, I need to see the other photo that I made that claim from.  Him coming from a partridge/blue partridge pen probably lends credence to my earlier statement.  hide.gif

 

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post #17214 of 35377
4/25/12 at 7:02pm

I agree with the backseat driver bit lau.gif

 

Not to mention it does sound like a vaulted head. So no worries there. I have 6 just like that, I just pulled from the incubator.

 

My kids tend to do the strange and unusual too! I think it's the breed. Right now I have a 3 week old baby out in the pen with his/hers fellow hatch mates. Bird was fine until today. Then I looked and I thought he was dead. Had that whole flattened out thing going on. Then I went to pick him up and darn if he's not only alive but still doing his funky little flat self. He's alert. Eats, drinks and just prefers NOW to lay out like he's on the beach. What in the world is this about?
 

Ive had some other things happen, but I can't think of them. But my bird is acting weird.

 

Send a picture, I want to see the little monkey!

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post #17215 of 35377
4/25/12 at 7:36pm

 

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Hmmm, I need to see the other photo that I made that claim from.  Him coming from a partridge/blue partridge pen probably lends credence to my earlier statement.  hide.gif

 

 

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post #17216 of 35377
4/25/12 at 7:49pm

I just acquired this pair..I am very pleased with them, they are by-far the nicest Silkies I have ever had :)

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7 Lavender Orpingtons, 8 Seramas (Frizzled, Smooth, and Silkied), 4 Silkied Ameraucana, Coturnix and Bob White Quail, Capuchine Pigeons, Ringneck Doves.

 

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7 Lavender Orpingtons, 8 Seramas (Frizzled, Smooth, and Silkied), 4 Silkied Ameraucana, Coturnix and Bob White Quail, Capuchine Pigeons, Ringneck Doves.

 

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post #17217 of 35377
4/25/12 at 8:07pm

Those are so beautiful...this is my first silkie hen here:

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Whit's Flock (My Chickens, Rabbit & Pigeons) (Click to show)

 

~Whittni, a happy owner of: 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets, 1 Black Sexlink pullet, 1 Buff Orpington pullet, 1 Black Tailed Buff Japanese Bantam pullet and 1 Black Rosecomb Bantam cockerel.

 

 

 

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Whit's Flock (My Chickens, Rabbit & Pigeons) (Click to show)

 

~Whittni, a happy owner of: 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets, 1 Black Sexlink pullet, 1 Buff Orpington pullet, 1 Black Tailed Buff Japanese Bantam pullet and 1 Black Rosecomb Bantam cockerel.

 

 

 

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post #17218 of 35377
4/25/12 at 8:25pm

Maybe its just me and I'm looking at it wrong..but I can't make her out. Is she bathing in the sand?

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Those are so beautiful...this is my first silkie hen here:

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7 Lavender Orpingtons, 8 Seramas (Frizzled, Smooth, and Silkied), 4 Silkied Ameraucana, Coturnix and Bob White Quail, Capuchine Pigeons, Ringneck Doves.

 

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7 Lavender Orpingtons, 8 Seramas (Frizzled, Smooth, and Silkied), 4 Silkied Ameraucana, Coturnix and Bob White Quail, Capuchine Pigeons, Ringneck Doves.

 

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post #17219 of 35377
4/25/12 at 8:45pm

how many eggs do your silkies lay weekly??? (on average) thanks

happy dad of a GSP and a BLRW and FBCM  and a WL and a BR and a BA and a SS and an EE and a GLC 

 

 

 

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happy dad of a GSP and a BLRW and FBCM  and a WL and a BR and a BA and a SS and an EE and a GLC 

 

 

 

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post #17220 of 35377
4/25/12 at 8:57pm

celebrate.gifNew silkie chicks hatched today, as always its on the worst day possible lol wee.gif
 

****<3**** Our farmily includes 12 goats, 1 horse, 3 dogs, 6 cats, 30 poultry: 13 silkies, 2 OEG, 2 EE, 1BR, 1 WL, 2 guineas, 5 geese, 4 mixed chickens. ****<3****

 

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****<3**** Our farmily includes 12 goats, 1 horse, 3 dogs, 6 cats, 30 poultry: 13 silkies, 2 OEG, 2 EE, 1BR, 1 WL, 2 guineas, 5 geese, 4 mixed chickens. ****<3****

 

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