Recent content by Klaire

we have hatched plenty of healthy chicks this clutch under two broody hens, but one of the late bloomers hatched from the egg starting to pip at the small end, it made it out of the egg but is coneccted to a bloody section of the egg through the vent, we removed the hard shell with out tearing...

ok not sure it's dying but it hatched from the small end and is still conected to half a bloody egg shell through the fecal hole!!! I dont know what to do plz help me!

How many days into the incubation period are the chicks when you start hearing them peep and shift inside the eggs? Thanks Klaire

Quote: But knowing my hens they would freak out and think it is a way to persecute the sacred chicken self!! Klaire

ok this is off topic but does anyone know how long it takes for a chick to start peeping before it hatches????????

:lol:does anyone know that if it is true that the heat and cold of outside could kill a silkie if they lived outside???

since i haven't got any answers ill ask a new question. why do silkies have nicer and like people.

since my mom said she might get me a silkie i have been doing a lot of research. it says that they have black skin blue earlobes black meat and blue bones. now has anyone dissected one tell me what you found i really want to know but i don't want to kill anything thats why im a vegetarian...

Oh the plans i am making for its sweaters and everything but my sisters better not chick nap it. But does anybody know how to bath a chick.

I am in Florida... I have wanted a Silkie for over a year my family has 15 other chickens that stays outside... I would be afraid of what the free ranging Buff Orp would do to a little Silkie... I would let them go outside, but I want them to be inside too.. I want them to be in the house with...

I am looking at getting a Silkie or two as a house pet. I have seen on other threads there is others who have them as house pets. I was wondering what you do about them using the restroom. If you do use a diaper, which type have you found that's the best. How often do they need to be...

I am looking at getting a Silkie or two as a house pet. I have seen on other threads there is others who have them as house pets. I was wondering what you do about them using the restroom. If you do use a diaper, which type have you found that's the best. How often do they need to be...