I thought I would tell you about my hazardous hair incident and my poor baby chick.
Yesterday I noticed that one of my 3 week old black silkies had a limp so I took it in my house to have a good look. Straight away i noticed that it had one of my hairs tangled all around one foot. I could see...
Thank you so much for your replies!
I feel much more optimistic about it now!
It seems to be getting on very well with the other one... probably because its not being trod on and pushed an shoved around. Plus its helping the new one to learn where the water and food is...
Its eating the...
Hi all thanks for your replies
No.1 - Roo
No.2 - Roo
No.3 - Hen - Cream Legbar
No.4 - Roo
I kept No.4 for a while and bred with my ex-battery RIR's and got 2 chicks
Hi all
I have a 3 week old silkie chick which i bought in a batch from a good friend.
It was very slightly smaller than its siblings when i got it, but now it is still the same size and its siblings have massively outgrown it. It was getting knocked about by the bigger ones more and more so I...
Hi Guys
Thanks for your help...
The two chickies are doing really well and even have 7 cute silkie friends now. The one that had a bit of a limp is absolutely fine now it seems it was just a bit wobbly after hatching.
The yellow chick is now getting some white / pale light brown feathers...
Thanks - suppose i just have to wait - I have some more due to hatch in a couple of weeks.
Noticed today that the brown one cant stand for long and seems to be hobbling about like it has a limp. Is there anything I can do?
Hi Guys, I recently mated my rhode island red ex-batterty hens with a Welsummer Cockerel, that I have had since he was a chick. I made a home made incubator with the help of this site and successfully hatched 2 chicks (hatched today) - veerrrryyy cute. I have 1 yellow with a few darker patces...
Thankyou everyone for your help!
I brought all the chicks in for a photo shoot today so that i had some better pictures.
I also managed to get hold of the number for the person that i bought them off and she told me that the Welsummer impostor (No.3) is really a cream Legbar hen an...
Hi Guys & Girls,
I'm relatively new to chicken keeping, i have had ex-batts for about a year now and just recently I bought some Welsummer chicks, they're approx 4 - 5 weels old now. Two of the chicks (no. 3 & 4) have stayed noticably smaller than the other two and one (No. 4) now looks like...