This is my 9 year old silkie, she's nothing special "pet quality." She has been sitting on eggs for a while now, none of them are hers. I'm concerned that sitting on eggs and going broody might make her healthy decline, so I'm kind of worried about it.
I don't know if I should take the eggs...
How are all these silkies related, I have a partridge, black, gray, and what I think is lavender, yet they are all from the same rooster, and hens?!? Make it make sense!
My guess is a frizzle cross, but we bought "black copper maran" hatching eggs and I think somehow the frizzle genes came in, I don't think they were marans, more of just a barnyard mix.
I have been recently wanting to get into breeding show quality silkies, either white or paint, most likely white. If you look in my post from yesterday its one of the very first posts in my profile, I think its the 2nd. Well I recently came to find out that my I should probably replace my...
Okay, I recently got into showing dairy goats, while my friend shows market 😪 You know how for like showmanship we have to do a bunch of different moves, and transitions, well I just learned that people who show market dont!? I was so confused, but later she told me that market is harder to...
Help! My golden retriever has just this horrible ear infection I have no clue what to do, its black, slimy, and it drives him NUTS I just want the poor guy to feel better, I clean them twice a day, and still dont see ANY improvement PLEASE HELP!!!
Hi, I have been on the hunt for a pure bred show quality silkie rooster (preferably white, black, or paint) for sale in missouri area. Let me know if you have any or know someone who does!
Hello, I am used to showing dairy goats, but I recently got into silkies, and would like to know some ways I could prepare my hens, or how I can get ready for my own showmanship. (If there is showmanship) I am bringing a white silkie, and am kind of stressing over how to transport her, and if...
Hello! We recently discovered 2 broody ducks, and they were both sitting on eggs, we found about 25 fertile eggs, and they all seemed to be around day 10 of incubation.
Last time I attempted to hatch ducks none of them hatched, my humidity is currently at 65% and temp is 100.2 F. I don’t...
I have around 10 silkies, and I don't have them free ranging due to predators, and other chickens bullying them. The coop I have them in now is about 30x10 ft. Should I add onto it?
I recently hatched out a silkie chick, and I have the purina medicated start and grow, but I got that because it has helped with all of our other chicks, but I was reading that silkie chicks might have problems with medicated feed. I’m not sure if this is true, but I am just trying to feed...
I made a post about this about 5 hours ago, and I haven’t gotten any replies. My silkie chick who hatched 3 days ago on both of her/his feet the third toe seems to be deformed. I tried putting the back into place, but they’re curled upwards, she seems to be struggling to move around, and she...
Hello, I have 3 silkie hens, and they started laying about a month ago. We have an 8 year old who has been going broody on them, I have her sitting on 4 right now, but does anyone know when my other girls might go broody on their eggs?
We have about 300 chickens, with about 10-15 roosters, and we have a few guinea fowl as-well. I realized our roosters have been breeding the guineas. Would it be wrong to incubate them? Because I have seen people do it successfully, but I don't know if they’re would be any likely birth defects?
Hi, I just recently hatched a silkie chick, and after it hatched I noticed its third toe on both feet was curled upwards, and shorter than the other toes. These toes also don't have nails on them, the chick stands up, but when it tries walking it falls and kind of struggles to keep balance. If...
Hi, about 8-10 months ago I hatched out 4 silkies, 3 hens, and a roo. The rooster is black, but does have some bronze/gold leakage in his neck feathers, the 3 hens are all “show quality” they are all white with no other colors. All have dark skin, 5 toes, and blue earlobes. I don't have any info...