i removed the body and buried it but there was still feathers all over the yard, well im outside changing the chickens water and it just lands not 20 feet away from me and starts eating chicken feathers=/ this thing was not a bit scared of me, so im scared to let the chickens out perioud now, i...
So, im sitting in the house watching tv and suddenly get the feeling to look outside, as i look i see a hawk standing over a white looking thing first tought was it had my cat as i ran outside to chase after it it didnt move, just looked at me and kept on what it was doing, so i grabed a shovel...
Well the silkie hatched about 2 days ago, and the banty hatched yesterday evening. im just concerned because the silkie came out layed around for a while then got up and started walking around, the banty just lays there. im leaving it in the incubator for now, or until it is up and moving around.
So i had 4 eggs in the bator, 2 japenese bantys and 2 silkies. 1 silkie hatched, and 1 japanese banty hatched. The silkie didnt take 2 hours to hatch, but the banty took a while. now a day later its just laying in the bator and it will ocasionally look up and chirp and sometimes move, but the...
just watch him for a couple of days to see if the eye gets any better, my first set of chickens i got from the jockey lot (2 hens one roo) the same thing happened to them, after a couple of days they started getting drainage in there eye by the time i got antibiotics for them the roo died and...
when this happened to me my silkie tried to adopt 3 month old chicks, but i went out and got her 2 babys about 4-5 weeks and she done just fine with them.
So this is the second post about the same problem, Aboout 3-4 weeks ago i got 2 baby silkie chicks who were 6 weeks, so there about 8-9 weeks now. I have a little EE/Silkie mix and then a pure silkie. Same size, about a week ago it was extremly hot outside and i noticed one of the chicks wasint...
Well i have 17 chickens, 5 RIR, 9 silkies, and 3 japanese bantams. and some eggs in the incubator. I live in berea and my neighbors are the best. They love my chickens and dont mind the crowing at 3 in the morning. They love the eggs and love comming over to see the new chicks/chickens(: Ive had...
So this i got these baby silkie chicks about a week or two ago from a lady who was looking to get rid of them. they was fine when i got them. there about 7-8 weeks old. i have two of them. yesterday i walked outside and i let them out of there cage to walk around and noticed one wasnt as active...
Well i got 2 hens and a rooster from the jockey lot about 3 weeks ago. there about 3 months old. well i love the rooster because he loves to jump on your lap and follow you around etc..well i walked out there today and he has a white liquid coming from his eyes and he can barely open his eyes...