Hello all, first time poster, long time reader. This forum has been so helpful in my start to raising a mini flock! To thank you all for that in advance. Now onto what finally drove me to post here…
The short and sweet:
My two 12 week old bantam silkies got pecking injuries from my older hens...
Hello! We've had this bird for a few years now, and shes pretty much always had this condition where her head will twist either left or right. sometimes it'll just be once or twice, sometimes more. I attached a video of whats going on, sometimes its more frequent and intense, sometimes not. Any...
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Second time posting, these are the chicks that I confirmed to be mixed (found the breeder and they said that these could be olive egger x silkies)
They are about 8 weeks old now and I think one of these are a roo. Needed to confirm as we can't have them here.
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I have some new members to my flock. This year I decided I wanted to add some silkies which I have never had before. Long story short I'm curious to see what colors they will turn into. The reason I say this is because of the 3 one looks more white even slightly silver to the other two. While...
I've been working on a functional incubator a little over a month and it's finally at least not cooking the eggs 🙃 This is one I almost threw away from the second to last batch (all the others were Definitely dead) so it's older than the rest but I have no idea by how much. I'm just keeping a...
Hello, I live in the desert and I'm incubating eggs gifted to me by a lady I clean house for. I had birds of all sorts growing up but my parents had trouble caring for them after the kids moved out. I'm starting another flock and have 7 that are very close to hatching in my homemade incubator...
Hi everyone! I am a new chicken mama and I’m hoping to get help sexing 6 of my chickens (3 silkies and 3 Easter eggers). I’m pretty sure I have at least one rooster, the lighter Easter eggers but would love everyone’s opinions!
All are just about 7-8 weeks old. Thanks!
Hey y’all! My six-week old chicks have been eating Mile Four organic chick feed because we read it was good for silkie chicks in particular, but due to some spillage we ran out of the current batch quite quickly, and we stupidly didn’t have a back-up of the same kind. We ordered more, but for...
Hi, found my silkie hen stood outside in the rain when putting them to bed, her face is very swollen and has gunk in her eyes and nostrals, no signs of injury. I thought this may be a respiratory infection but she's not sneezing, gurgling or gasping for air. Haven't been able to cheak on them...
Help! The thunderstorm today spooked my 10 week old silkie and they damaged their beak.
The tip of the beak is not completely off, but it is exposing the fleshy part of the skin and bleeding. I tried to give her soaked feed the consistency of mash and on her first bite her mouth filled with...
A pretty colored chick I have. She's an Easter Egger silkie mix, her name is Hops. She actually might be a pullet now I'm not quite sure, she's mixed with a bantam so I don't know what size she's supposed to be. Anyways, Don't know if there's a name for this coloring, kinda reminds me of a mille...