Update on my Trixie - opened her box this morning expecting to find a corpse but she seems improved! Eating yoghurt, drinking, standing and looking around and she has passed a soft shelled broken egg so perhaps she was egg bound? I checked her vent and her abdomen last night and all was normal...
I have flashy little silkies with flashy little names
Amber, Trixie, Dixie, Dallas, Tiffany, Lola and Emu and those departed Candy, Texas, Sasha and Bob
How is she now? I have a similar problem, one of my silkie hens was lying down at the bottom of the run this morning barely moving and didn't protest at all when I picked her up and brought her inside and put her in a box lined with a towel. Left her a few hours to sleep after nightshifts and...
What breed of chickens do you have? I have silkies and they dont like roosting, Ive read that this can be a Silkie behaviour though! I added 5 new girls to my flock a fortnight ago and they too sleep in a bundle by the door they look all squashed but they dont want to roost or even spead out and...
Hi, Ive been a constant lurker on this forum since I got chickens last spring and its really helped my calm my worries and help me with my prolems so I thought I should make a proper profile.
I have 7 silkie hens, 3 golden (Dallas, Texas, Lola) 4 white silkie hens (Tiffany, Amber, Trixie, Dixie)...