Silkie thread! - Page 2064

Thanks.  Yes, I feel a tad guilty posting pretty well the ugliest pictures I have of him/her!   He/she is really sweet actually [of course] and runs to my hand when I put it in their enclosure.  He/she leans his/her little chest into my palm to be picked up and is so relaxed.  Loves to be held and petted.  Little sweetie.

So, here he/she is in a cuter picture.  :)   Thanks for all your help.  Can't wait for his/her head and neck to fluff out more. 

[PS--regarding sex, the beak angle looks female, and the chick walks 90% low in the chest.  The below pix is an oddity-- standing a bit upright (something startled him/her hence my being able to take a clear photo!).  Recently however, he/she got a bump on the middle of his/ her comb area which might signal male. ? I remember recently someone spoke of females having the little round bump there, not wide, but bumped out.  ???  Any guesses???  :) ]

My cute little cockerel

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Originally Posted by cindersga 

As I type I think my black 2 month old silkie "Darkness" is dying.  I have let them out during the day in the back yard and they have had a fun time chasing bugs.  Today though when I brought them into the house he/she was looking at me with his head upside down.  I thought it was strange but he is curious.  My husband said something about his head being cranked around and then we both noticed him acting weird in the cage.  He can't stand and he can't keep his head upright.  Could he have gotten bit by a spider or something?  We don't use pesticides so he couldn't of gotten poisoned.  I am so upset.  I have two white ones and he was my only black.  If he passes I want to replace him with a pullet that is 2months old.  Do you have any you sell at that age and how much?  I live in GA.  Thanks

 

Cindy 

I am dealing with this right now too.  Apparantly from much research and questions It is either a brain injury or a vitamin deficiency of some kind.  It started last week for me.  I gave mine poly vitamins from rite aid.  It is an infant liquid vitamin dropper.  I give mine two drops twice a day.  He is still doing it but less frequently and less seizureish.  It seems to be working.  Another lady on here told me it took two weeks for it to act normal again.  I also give him and his sibling a scrambled egg with a vitamin e capsules broken and drizzled all over it every other day.  Good luck. Also it helps if you seperate it and try not to stress it out because it seems to happen more when they are bothered or stressed.  Hope this helps.  I was stressing bad last week but with a little progress I am hopeful and not worrying so much.

My silkie showgirls 1st day outside :) they remind me of little ostriches running and ducking in the grass every time they get startled 

Cookie is the partridge and Flour is the white one 

a little of topic but i love this picture ... my eldest with Crème & Brûlée just days before Crème got sick and passed :[

I have a hen that walks out like a cockerel. I wouldn't use that as a basis to determine gender.  The comb does look like a nice little bump, but it could continue to grow or not.  There's really no telling.  Right now, it's just a guess.  I have chicks that are nearly 3 months old and I'm still just guessing on them.  Although, I can already tell pretty well on the ones that have a wide comb path-- even though there is no growth on their combs yet-- I can see the ones that are wide and flat will most likely be boys.  The ones that remain narrow along the top of their beak most likely end up being girls-- UNLESS of course they don't!  LOL  Your chick seems to be pretty darned young to be getting a comb in.  All of mine at nearly 3 months don't have anything yet.  How old is that chick?  

I hope it won't be too late for me to get to the store tomorrow for some vitamins.  I gave it some Durvet Vitamins and Electrolytes in a dropper that I had.  I also took him out of the cage and put him in a box with a towel and a towel over the top to create some darkness hoping it would sooth it.  I can't believe all the junk that happens to chickens, all the stuff that can go wrong!  Whew I just don't know about this...it's stressful to me :~/ LOL

Thanks!  Yes, it is all funny that birds are so elusive in showing their genders!   Arrggggh.   This chick is about 2 months old.  Younger than yours.  It's comb is all gray black without a hint of color [yet?].  I wouldn't say it's wide, actually, more skinny, or even in width to the beak, but it did "grow" this round bump about a week ago, so maybe a boy.  ?  It has confused me with its sex so far, lol.  I have a black one that I am very sure is a girl [haha] and a white that I am sure is a boy, but a few in between that are very hard to guess at!  Tho this one might be a boy with that bump...   

I'm trying to learn and practice on these in preparation to my hatch of Garry Farm and CJ Silkie bubs in the incubator!

Thanks so much!

Here is pic of my new babies!

Not sure if these are blue or splash. They are much lighter than my first blue I hatched a few weeks ago. Any ideas?  

KMHunter-- this is what my Blues have looked like at hatch:

My Splash at hatch:  (below)