Hi everyone my name is Tara i'm 25 years old and live in Victoria Australia. I own 7 silkie hens,1 silkie rooster,1 cochin cross and 2 barred rocks. My mum has chickens too she has 2 light sussexs and 3 buff orpingtons. I also own 1 hand reared green cheek conure,1 hand reared cockatiel,1 hand...
Hi everyone here are some pictures of my silkie chicks and bantam buff orpington chicks. The 2 bigger chicks in with the orps are 5 weeks old and the others are 4 weeks old. The other picture of the chick on its own is 7 weeks old. Also a picture of the aviary there in.
Hi everyone i have a 2 week old bantam buff orpington its leg seems like its twisted or something. What i find werid is one day it was walking normal then the next its leg was turned side ways.It is on sand with hay on top. I had 1 other bantam buff orpington had the same thing my dad put it...
Hi everyone here are some pictures of my parrots and soon to be parrot.
MoJo my female green cheek conure
Aqua my male blue quaker
My soon to be sun conure unsexed still being hand reared at the breeders
don't throw it out i had 2 chicks survive thee inside of there eggs were coated in blood. The first egg the hen pecked it and the top of the egg was open, there was a fair bit of blood people said the chick would die but it didn't its now a week old. I had to help it out of the egg same with the...
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OKAY - YOU HAVE TO TELL ME WHERE YOU GOT YOUr 7 BANTAM BUFF ORPINTON EGGS FROM!!!!
HI i got my bantam buff orpingtons from a lady in ouyen victoria australia. Got some exciting news its only day 19 and i already have 3 bantam buff orpingtons hatch and 1 silkie...
well the little chick tryed getting out of the egg which caused more bleeding. It was so tired and weak i helped it out. It has asorbed all its yolk but the inside of the egg was full of blood. So god knows what had happened. When i got it out it was moving pretty well trying to get up. If it...
Hi everyone i got a major problem here, I have a broody silkie hen sitting on 6 eggs which are due to hatch today. I went in there to check on them to find mama has pecked the top off the egg off one of the chicks. Eg it was bleeding the chick is still alive. I brought it inside and have put it...
Can i please say that this bird needs her wound sitched up. I had the same thing happen to my buff silkie Thunder she had a hole in her breast the size of a 10 cent coin. The vet put betadine solution in the wound then sitched it up. She is recovering well i put betadine on the wound for only 2...
the same thing happened to my broody silkie she had 7 fertile eggs under her then one day she had 6 under her, I don't know what happened but all the other 6 eggs are fine and are still under her. The same thing happened to my white broody silkie she had 8 eggs under her she kicked most of them...
Hi i wouldn't trust a jack russell around any small animals. I fully trust my golden retrievers and my chihuahua. My aunties jack russell cross fox terrier on the other hand she gets that look in her eyes once that happens she won't listen no matter what you do. Picture bellow is what my auntys...
Hi everyone today i started building a broody pen. All that needs to be done now is mesh put on to stop chicks from getting out and stop anything getting in, Also a roof and some sides etc to make a covered in area for them to sleep.
Hi everyone my silkie chicks are 1 week old today, Here they are in the run with there mama which is doing a wanderful job.
http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e60/GoldenOwner12/silkie%20bantams/?action=view¤t=CLIP0321.mp4
Hi just to let you some hens don't like to be moved my silkies are like that when sitting on the eggs i had to leave them where they choose to sit, But when it was day 20 the hen allowed me to move her and the eggs in a different spot eg cage.
Hi i have some broody silkies sitting on eggs, well some of the eggs under the broodys broke and they ate them. To say the least there eggs are coated in egg etc. I haven't washed them as i don't want to rmoeve the protective coating. My blue/silver silkies eggs are fertile and are still...