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Silkies are strictly for cuteness. I have some that are coming up on 5 months old. My hatch is 7 boys and 3 girls. Aside from male hair pulling, so far so good. I hope they all accept their lot in life so that they can stay together.. I do love the roos.

Well I know that silkies come in different sizes. The girls are smaller most of the time. I have a runtish hen right now but she was sick as a chick and required tube feedings. It may have been cocci, I don't know.

Yea, I worry more about heat down here. I try to give them all fresh cool water in the afternoon, or ice bottles.

Silkies are not known to be cold hardy. They can take some cold. I live in Florida, so someone up north should reply to this , LOL

At 4.5 months, I have 3 known females and 5 known males. There are 2 I can't decide on. One especially because the top roo grabs the girls and makes them scream and he did it to this one. The other one is a big black silkie, so it's probably male, but I'm not willing to decide yet. Hmmm.

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Adorkable is right. I think the crumbles are too big and then it looks like they're eating but they are not. They're just hungry..For new chicks I have learned to grind up the crumbles. I do that for about 2 weeks.

I would get some generic cream used for jock itch, athelete's foot or a yeast infection and put it on there every day. What ever it is, there's a good chance it's a fungal thing.

Looks like Roberta to me.

That would be nice if that second to last one is a girl. Right now I'm sure of 7/10 being roos. At 4months old. Sorry about all the chickens lost to raccoons. How sad.

DOES ANYONE SEE ANY GIRLS????

Really cool Michele! Karen

Fancychooklady. I'm glad the tide is turning especially with chickens. I found out that antibiotic free actually means that the chickens are not kept on preventative antibiotics. But If ill they still can get a course of antibiotics. At times when I've used them, sick chickens don't lay a...