Recent content by Ms Steak

Woops, and thank you too TXchickmum.

Thanks Jim. I hope we get the best part of it done tomorrow.

I am so sorry. I have seven chickens. 5 large fowl and 2 normal size silkies.

Hi. Up until now my chickens have been totally free ranging, but two of my naughty dogs have decided they want to chase them, and I am worried they could get hurt. My son and I are building a run out of 6 ft by 3 ft aluminium panels. There is enough to make an outdoor run measuring 15 ft by 21...

If I remember, I will take some pictures myself. We brought them in to compare against your update, and one has a smaller comb than your baby, the others is around the same size.

Compared to my two (who I am thinking may both be roos ) The comb looks redder, but the tail is a bit bigger than the one I was sure was a girl till the last couple of days, and a lot beigger than the other ones. I think you may have more copper feathers, but mine are a marin mix of breeds, so...

Could you put updated pictures of the chick on please? I would like to compare it to mine. I am crossing everything I have at least one pullet, or my hatch will have resulted in zero for my flock

I understand. When my little silkie died I sobbed for hours. In fact, I will never attempt to incubate again. Hugs to you tslaven.

I hope I didn`t.

I am so sorry.

Silkie chicks are small. That sounds the right sort of size to me.

I thought they were the same age. Mine are 2 weeks 4 days. The person I got the eggs from said my two are pullets. He looked at pictures when they were a day or 2 old, and went by their comb, or lack of it. They don`t look much different than your little one, so I would hang onto it, and hope...

I think they would eat it, and it would clump in their crop. Great idea in principle though.

I have no idea, but I am interested as I have 2 maran type chicks. How old are these? They look similar in age to mine, who are 2 and a bit weeks.

Thank you for your replies. Once I was there they looked very different. How Funkey, the one I thought was a pullet was so brightly coloured, I feel pretty sure it will be a roo. The other one had backwards growing feathers, so I wasn`t sure about that one either. Luckily there was 2 more to...