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I doubt I'll be logging in again. I feel like my posts in this forum get ignored, so I'll be looking for greener pastures. I know I'm not on here much, don't have show-quality silkies, and am not one of the "popular" silkie owners, but I feel like I'm invading some kind of clique whenever I...

I had to move my house silkies pen into the basement from the mudroom since the heater out there broke. It's 28 degrees F out in that room now and the three-month-old chicks have never experienced anything colder than about 60 degrees F. They're living on fleece on a tile floor now and my...

The half-grown chicks, hatched Nov. 21st. Professor Jazzy, aka P.J. I took these photos Feb. 18th and her crest has filled out since then. It's very feminine now. That, along with her lack of any discernible comb or wattles makes me think she really is a female. Gorgonzilla, aka...

One of my silkie chicks used to lay flat on his side or sit there with his beak on the ground like a tripod when I had to bathe him. He liked to sleep on the bottom of the pile, so he ended up covered in poop a lot. He scared the heck of me the first time he did that after a bath, but once he...

Then I hope this is just cabin fever. It's either that or I separate out at least some of the roosters. I can't get rid of them because they're the kids' chickens.

I'm about ready to build a bachelor coop because this winter the boys have started pulling feathers from the hen's heads when they mate. Pinto is almost bald thanks to Tails the bantam cochin rooster. I don't know who breeds with Professor Fluffles, but one side of her crest looks like it's...

They should be able to handle 70 degrees just fine. You might need to leave the light on for them at night for a couple of more weeks. My first batch of chicks went out to the coop at six weeks old with no problems. This was in early May, so night temperatures were in the upper 60s. Also...

I might try that. Pinto's not picky what she eats, but Professor Fluffles is. Cottonball, upon further inspection, doesn't look like she's suffering from scrawny feathers, but she was only broody for a week and really didn't lose much condition. Penguin the cochin is now broody, so I'm...

Silkies can also have dark brown eyes. Mine have eyes a dark enough shade of brown that unless you're right up next to them and they're in bright light, they look black. I have a buff who's eyes are more amber, which would probably be points off or disqualify him in the show ring, but he's my...

Oops, double post. My computer crashed while I was writing.

After reading the symptoms and inspecting the silkie hens and a few random LF ones, I don't think anyone has lice or mites. They're pretty happy, healthy, albeit cold, chickens who are laying in overdrive even though it's colder than Alaska out there. The coop has yet to get under twenty...

Ugh, my hens look awful. They all went broody this winter, were difficult to break of it and lost some feathers afterwards. The thing is, they're not really growing them back. Their crests are not as full as they were this summer/fall and things are a little thin on their breasts. Ella, the...

I'd say he should be, but that all depends on the roosters' personalities. My bantam cochin rooster matured long before my five sikie roos and they all tolerate each other just fine. I think that's because he learned to accept them as a part of the flock before they became fully fledged...

Gorgonzilla looks to be developing a cross beak. I don't think it'll be any big deal since I've read up on it and know what to do. We can always keep her in the indoor pen so she can get TLC if that's what she needs. We went through worse with Thunderhead. Here's her sibling of the...

She's a very beautiful girl. Reminds me of my two white hens. I can't comment on her quality, though, because I'm still pretty new at this chicken keeping thing.

It's bad here with the cold. We're expecting fifty below wind chill tomorrow. I have a heat lamp set up in the coop and it hasn't gotten below twenty degrees in the coop, thankfully. The silkies seem to handle the cold better than my LF. They'll hang out for fifteen or so minutes in the...

Funny!

That must be hilarious to see 3-4 month chicks still being mothered. Mine are only six weeks old, but they barely fit under her wings anymore. Too bad it's too soon to tell gender. I'd like to know what the living arrangements are going to be since Ella and the chicks are the indoor chickens...

Well, Ella laid an egg yesterday, so her broody days are over. But she keeps on mothering those chicks anyway. They still sleep under her wings at night and they better not stray too far away from her or she'll call them back. I don't understand. I thought they cut the chicks loose once they...

I got a new camera so I could get some photos of the coop silkies. A lot of them aren't show quality, since we had to take what we could get out of the remaining chicks at the breeders after a raccoon attack killed all but one of our first batch of silkies. But the kids decided that pet...