I think price at $250 should be fine. Training as a vet tech, most doctors I know refuse to see any exotics because they are not experienced. Even then, it is usually x-rays,fluids, etc and never surgery unless you go to a specialty clinic. Many tech arent comfortable restraining and...
maybe easter egger silkie mix? I have a few silkie mixes with tuff of hair like that on top and no silkie feathers. And the hen has a EE beard? most of my silkie mixes dont have feather feet either....so...
The lavender turned out to be a rooster
But thats!! heres some new pictures recently on "HIM"
Here are some other chicks :)!!
Rhode Island red rooster over white silkie mix
his littermates!! Smaller one is the Curly
Curly the silkie with scissor beak and curled...
I took these photos today :)
My lavender rooster is full grown now I think. :)
Hes so prettty!! but a jerk -_-
him with his favorite hen
hiding and peaking at me ;)
I had an american eskimo that didnt go after any of my small animals. We had a rabbit with a splayed leg and she kept all the opossums and skunks away. She also was gentle with the chickens but the rooster always attacked her :(
HOWEVER my friend's american eskimo killed a rabbit -__- It all...
Mine is doing great! But I noticed that it has a scissor beak going on but not too bad. Maybe you should tape yours longer? I changed the taoe every 2 days when I had it on. Hopefully it works out for you :( !!
I bought crumbles a few weeks ago instead of feed mixed with scratch. My chickens hated it and my hen even stopped laying D:<!!!!
But then I mixed some water into it and they love it... So now when I feed them I mix it with water until its soggy but still in pieces? But they finish it all and...
ohh ic, All the mommy's were protecting them last time when i tried to get a look at one of the chicks. There was one mama that was extra mean tho and she even popped one of her own eggs trying to bite me :(
Should I take them during the day or night tho when I move them into crate? Its kind...
So the other day my friend hatches 10 baby silkies! the cutest little things.
The next few days pass and there is only 5 left. We believe its the rats that are eating the babies.
We plan on moving them to my house where it is much safer and a better coop. But when is it best to move them? The...
I thought my lavender was a hen the whole time but it turned out to be a rooster :(
You can compare his younger pictures with your lavender maybe?
as he got older.....
What I noticed was that his neck area is super puffy compared to my EE and other chickens
and then now he...
my rooster bites me while I hold him! So my first reaction was to pull his feathers on his head gently like how other chickens bite each other and then he went to sleep. But hes still a jerk D: