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It was my birthday on the weekend and before school ended one of my friends told me he was going to give me a chicken as a gift. I thought he was joking but he actually brought me one today.his hen matched her out. She hates being caught but after you do she loves cuddles. And falls asleep...

So I have a Lohmann brown hen that went broody in March and hatched two silkie eggs on the 16th of April. The chicks are still chirping and are still quite small. So we went on holiday a few weeks ago and we came back yesterday and when I went to check on them to see if they were okay and when I...

I thought it would be fun to do a competition on fluffest chickens. you can also enter them if they have poofy crest. br rules: 3 entry’s per person, with a little bit about the chicken please use this format: breed: Name...

I have a 2 year old silkie bantam that moulted in April and still has not layed a egg. She is on layers pellets and used to lay every second day although I did notice that her egg prouductin had gone down a bit. Any idea when she will lay again? I’m not sure how long after a moult chickens start...

I have a paint silkie called poppy and lately I have been having to peel her crest feathers out of her air ways. I have no clue whats going on. But I’m scared they will get blocked and she won’t be able to breath. I felt her aire holes and i felt this weird goo on them. It’s clear but definitely...

Hi. so I would love to walk my chickens and its really hard to shop online and get the right size. And I was wondering if any one has made a harness or have pictures from the top of a chicken In a harness? Thank you.

So on Sunday I got two new 6 monty old silkie hens and on Sunday and Monday night I put them in early because I had to go out. But on Tuesday and tonight poppy has not been going in, the only reason this worry’s me is that her sister Winnie goes in and even sleeps with charlie and blue. But she...

Hi. I have a silkie chick called nezuko. Her mom is back and her dad is blue. She has a sibling that’s black called kiwi 🥝 and Im Wondering if by an chance any of you have had a blue silkie chick that looks white? She is such a light colour and I was wondering if maybe she might get lighter as...

Hi. I will try and draw your chickens. I’m not the best artist and would like to practice as I love drawing chickens. I find Silkies easily and other birds might talk a bit longer if they have hard patterns. your Have have different colours and patterns. There is the rainbow colours and some...

Hi. My silkie eggs are hatching soon and I thought it would be fun to start a thread to find some names.the dad is a blue silkie called blue and the home is a black silkie called Charlie. Do you think it's more likely for black silkie to hatch or can't you really tell. Thanks.

hi. I’m hatching Two silkie eggs and they are due on Tuesday. They are under a broody hen and the only problem is that she is brooding a nesting box raised off the ground I’m going to move them when they hatch but I’m worried that kathy will try and take them out when I’m not there and they...

I could someone please help me. I’m hatching Chicks and I asked my dad to get some growers mash and he bought this he told me it is definitely growers mash. But a while ago when I raised three silkie chicks they had stunted growth and the breeder said thus feed was the problem. I was wondering...

i have a black silkie called sleepy that I’m hopeing is a hen but I’ve had lots of people telling me different things. the breeder I got them from said it’s a rooster and the lady I got the rooster I currently have said it’s a hen. I posted her asking and two people said hen. But echo( sleepys...

*Rules: two entries per person Of your chicken doing something funny format: name: breed : gender : Radom fact : the posts can be things like a broody hen puffing at you or a chick poking its head out of her feathers lots of chickens in one nesting boxs a rooster in a nesting box thing like...

Hi. I awhile ago I tried to hatch eggs any non of them made its. Still very sad about that. But lately one of my hens went broody and I put silkie eggs under her and it’s day 11 now but all the eggs seem to have passed. It could be from the other chickens getting in to the brood area but that...

I was wondering can you hold a new hatched still wet chick. I would hold it in the broader, so it is warm. I have read you should not. But I have watched lots of videos of People are doing it. I would like the chicks To imprint on me, but I don't want to hurt them. Thank you.