Recent content by Sageblossom

Thank you! I think he's one of the best looking silkie roosters I've ever seen. I hate to give him up.

This beautiful lavender split porcelain silkie cockerel came from Chris Peach's Lavender/Porcelain project pen eggs. We call him Cromwell. I just love him and was hoping to keep him, but I live in a suburban neighborhood, and it's just not going to work out having a rooster here. : ( I'm...

My incubator was running too high in humidity and I had several chicks with poor healing and infected navels. I found that if I applied Schreiner's Herbal Solution to them twice a day for about a week, it saved them all and dried up their belly buttons. (I found Herbal Solution at my local feed...

My incubator was running too humid and I had several sticky chicks with infected belly buttons. I saved them all by applying Schreiner's Herbal Solution twice a day for a week, from the time I took them out of the incubator. I found it at our local feed store. By the way that stuff is amazing...

Hi! I've just started with chickens, although I've hatched and kept button quail for the last five years. I have hatched two batches of chickens from my incubator this year. I kept a bantam ameraucana/EE mix, a buff laced polish and a partridge silkie from my spring hatch. The rest are with a...