Hi! I’m new to chickens! I got 4 silkies on Mother’s Day from a breeder who I later learned was not reputable in a good way!! Two of my babies passed since then, leaving me with two, one of which has been a constant battle of health issues in relation to her feet. I recently got two more little...
Hi all, I just picked these cuties up yesterday. One 10 week old buff and one 12 week old partridge silkie. The woman I got them from said she did the DNA testing and they both came back girls but she was thinking there still seemed like a chance that our partridge could be a boy based on the...
It seems to be a very mixed bag with that Hatchery. I’ve heard about Marreks being an issue there (since my initial post) so now I’m worried about any potential chickens I may want to bring in for the future. I’ll look at Mt. Healthy. We didn’t want to hatch our own and needed a guarantee that...
I got 4 silkies from backyard chickies and all 4 were really sick with cocci within the first week we had them. One ended up dying. I’m still trying to save the other 3. She send me some info via text to help but overall I feel like she didn’t really care about the chickens. She didn’t offer any...