Recent content by MissyC2012

I just found one at a local animal rescue. I am going to pick her up tomorrow. 🙂

I was thinking the same thing, which is why I wanted to check breed and age. I would like to get one close in age and similar breed, if possible. It is absolutely adorable and we love it. We already have 2 kiddie pools in the big chicken coop and plenty of feed, so that is why the neighbor asked...

My neighbor found a baby duckling in her yard that appears to have been dropped by a predator. It is very healthy with only minor scratches and nobody around here is currently raising ducks as pets, only a farm 2 miles from here raising them as meat birds. I tried integrating it with my Silkie...

We love them both. They are both super cuddly babies. They go outside during the day (weather permitting) and sleep inside at night because the other chickens in the outside flock (mostly Australorps and one very old Speckled Sussex hen) are all bullies who pull their feathers and peck them...

Puddin (the bigger one with darker feathers in the picture of both of them) is the broodiest hen I have ever seen. She lays eggs about 3-4 times per week and is very quick to let me know when she is done with laying them, since she and Muffin (and now Ebony) share my office/sunroom with me most...

Thanks. I wondered about that. If so, she is the laziest pet hen we have. She has yet to lay a single egg. If not, he is the quietest and friendliest rooster we have ever had out of a Silkie. Our Silkies are usually either black or white, so I wondered if the Partridge Silkies were just...

Hello friends. We have 2 Partridge Silkie birds who are now almost 9 months old. Muffin is the grey-ish bird and Puddin is the larger brown-ish bird. Puddin (the darker one in the last 2 photos) lays eggs regularly. However, Muffin (the lighter one in the first 4 photos) does not lay eggs, does...

So Puddin (the darker one) lays eggs regularly. However, Muffin (the lighter one) does not lay eggs, does not crow, and loves to peck others. How old are Silkies when you can actually tell the difference for certain? They are 8 1/2 months old now and haven't changed much in size or coloring...

Update - She is up and running/limping around like before. She is still indoors with our Partridge Silkie hen and roo until she is back to full health, but she is definitely getting back to normal. We treated the bites by washing them out with saline and treating them with antibiotic ointment...

Thank you. We lost all but 2 hens and 1 rooster in recent predator attacks before we reinforced and restructured the run on the coop, so we are currently in rebuilding mode, incubating eggs as soon as our Australorp and Barred Rock lay them. Thankfully my indoor Partridge Silkie roo and hen are...

Thanks. I may go get that tonight.

She is getting more active now that she is drying out. She is on my desk, but she keeps falling over to one side. I see some small puncture wounds on one side from the fox's teeth, but no other damage and they don't seem very deep at all.

We have a Barred Rock chicken, about 6 weeks old, who was just pulled out of our coop and carried through the yard by a fox. I managed to fire an arrow at the fox and scare it into dropping the baby bird and running off. However, the baby bird was lying on its side and soaking wet from the rain...

We lost 3 chickens on Saturday and 2 more on Tuesday to a fox who tore through the fencing in our run by the coop. Chicken hawks were bad before we put a roof on the run.

Hello friends. We have 2 about 4 1/2 month old Partridge Silkie birds. We know that one of them laid an egg for the first time today, but we don't know which one. We are trying to determine if we have a rooster and a hen or two hens. They do not crow, but they open their mouths and stretch their...