Silkie thread! - Page 1728

@sanna...I never got an exact age more like 3 or 4ish.She just came out side the coop today with her babies.I loved watching them.Found myself spending about an hour sittig and watching everyone. :)

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Originally Posted by ChickensXOXO 

 

Oh my goodness! Such a beautiful hen...and those precious chicks peeking their little heads out...Christmas card material!!

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye95 

 

 

Sounds like a vitamin deficiency she had.  I bet some Vitamin E might have cleared that up.  I like to give powder probiotics as a top dressing in their feed now and then to keep them balanced-- it is for goats and it has a lot of great vitamins in it, including Vit E.  I bought it at TSC, it comes in a tub for $11.  Totally worth it.  I know a lot of people buy the Vit E capsules and break those open and give it to their birds that are having troubles like you described.  But yeah, pretty sure that wasn't seizures she was having, or at least, not what you were thinking.  Sorry she was taken by a hawk, that is sad.  

You learn something new every day. I feel like such a moron that I didn't think to try to do more research on her condition. I'll remember this if I ever see a chicken do the same thing. Those were my first chickens ever back at the Mo-days. I just didn't know any better.  Poor Mo.

I will take a trip to the feed store down the road and see if they have any. Otherwise I'll just order it online or something.

Candling eggs???!

I tried to candle our eggs today. Never done this before but I'm pretty sure my flash light wasn't bright enough and it wasn't dark enough in the coop. But. Most of the eggs seemed to be very dark so to say. I couldn't see through them. Some had those little empty areas at one end of the egg (can't remember what those are called). And a few eggs I found that seemed to have nothing in them, which would make them infertile?

If I did everything right and saw what I think was a chick in an egg, we should have about 25 eggs hatching in a day or two! I'm way excited, but we really don't need 25 chicks. lol I'll be looking for new homes soon!

How do you know what a bad egg looks like? One of those that might blow up under the hen?

I posted new pictures of momma and babies, and even a short video!!!

Prepare for cuteness!

>>> http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/657545/silkie-momma-with-babies <<<

Best candling is about a week to ten days.  After that developing eggs get too dark to make much out, although candling right before hatching can yield some really cute sights of beaks poking into the air cell.  If the egg smells rotten, it could explode.  Most of the time, though, eggs don't go rotten unless something introduced bacteria.

I posted new pictures of momma and babies, and even a short video!!!

Prepare for cuteness!

>>> http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/657545/silkie-momma-with-babies <<<

Thought I'd share with the group my first bantams to my flock! Four silkies. One roo & three hens. Two fo the hens are pullets. Due to ordinances, if my neighbor complains I may have to get rid of my roo.

The roo & the older hen are the black with gold pencilling. I like the contrast. The two solid black ones are pullets.