Hello
I have a young Show Girl slikie pullet that I found this morning with the skin on the back of her neck cut from a rooster breeding her.
I have put her in the house in a hospital cage I threw together. I let her warm up before I treated her wound. I rinsed it out with water and then...
Hi,
I am looking to extend my flock of Silkies....I need more hens or pullets but I can take my chances with younger birds and grow them out.
I live in the Wichita area but am able to travel if needed.
If anyone can help me out...lemme know.
Lisa
Hi All,
I took advantage of the nice day and let the chickies forage in the front yard this afternoon.
Lots of scratching, flapping, eating, crowing and other fun chicken type activities abounded.
My oldest pullet(6 months old) has been laying for about 2 weeks now!! Yay!, fresh eggs!!
If...
Hi All,
I took advantage of the nice day and let the chickies forage in the front yard this afternoon.
Lots of scratching, flapping, eating, crowing and other fun chicken type activities abounded.
My oldest pullet(6 months old) has been laying for about 2 weeks now!! Yay!, fresh eggs!!
I have a four silkie chicks that are 5 weeks old.....I think I already have a little boy on my hands..He has a noticable comb and wattles and is a bit bigger than the other three...they have no comb or wattle development...I'll try to get some more pics soon. But this is the most recent pic i...
We had an interesting day...
My white 4 week old silkie chick had an accident..she lost the tip of her longest toe on her left foot. My daughter and her friend was bringing the four 4 week old chicks and the 2 18 week old silkies in the house...her friend had the babies in a milk crate and...
Hi All,
I picked up 4 day old silkie chicks Wednesday, 3 partridge and 1 white one.
They are sooo stinkin cute!
chick 1 chick 2 chick 3
feeding frenzy chick 4...
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I just got my Hen Holsters chicken diapers today for my 3 silkies.
I swear it was like they forgot how to sit,walk and lay down.......unhappy puddles of fluff all over.....fluffy land mines .
I will put them on the birds for a while each day until they get used to them.
I am not...
Hi All,
I got my silkie's on Thanksgiving Day they were 2 weeks old....so they are now 18 weeks old.
There is a blue and a splash that due to how they act and how they are feathering out I am hoping are going to be hens..but no eggs yet.
The black one is a cockerel..he started crowing last...
cailynne
Location: wichita ks
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Hi All,
I decided to expand my 3 silkie's outside run today...they had a smaller 5' x 5' x 3' run built out of pvc. I built them a 10' x10' x 10' pvc run and added the old one to make a door and sort of a holding type...
Hi All,
I decided to expand my 3 silkie's outside run today...they had a smaller 5' x 5' x 3' run built out of pvc. I built them a 10' x10' x 10' pvc run and added the old one to make a door and sort of a holding type area. One side is part of the chain link fence. I still have to finish the...
If you can go to wal- mart and get some poly-visol WITHOUT iron that can be a good thing to get any vitamins that your chickies may lack into them..i used it on a previous batch of silkies who had some wry neck and suspected maerrik's disease( bad spelling) with a few of them...i lost 2 of the 5...
i brooded my chicks in the house in a large cardboard box. I used playsand from lowes as the bedding.
It worked well for me. I taped the seams and got a sand sifter for reptiles to clean it out daily.
There wasnt too much of a smell and poops got covered pretty quickly.
I also figured that if...
Hi,
What kind of drip waterer are you wanting to put in with you chicks.
I use a 2 gallon bucket with 3 chicken nipples for my 3 twelve week old silkies.
I used a regular waterer for about eight weeks while they were in the brooder box. I thought about either drilling a hole for a nipple waterer...
Hi All,
I am fairly new to BYC but this is my 2nd attempt at raising chickies. I had started out with 3 silkies..a black hen and 2 partridge cockerels. They lived inside at night and when it was bad outside. Unfortunatly something killed them when they were free ranging in the back yard( not in...
I dont think that there are any fox here..i live too close to the city.
, to my knowledge. My only thing i can think of is one of the neighbor's boxer dogs got over the fence..their kids heard the noise and came to my yard and got their dog. I have to leave the gate unlocked for meter readers.I...
the punctures were on the sides of the body below the wings..as big around as a pencil.They look like they were grabbed and shook and my alpha cockerel was probably trying to defend his flock and got torn up for it.