www.serenitysprouts.com is now offering the option to order silkies with DNA sexing. Located in Strasburg, CO. They do not believe in shipping chicks, but you can visit their farm and even request delivery within 200 miles of the farm. If you adore this breed known as the Teddy Bear of...
I finally decided on names for my little babes. Winter and Whisky seems to suit them well. I’d love suggestions on what you think they will look like once they’re grown.
Dad was a white frizzle and mum was apparently silkie. Thoughts please?
Hello! I am new to this site and these are my first silkie chicks, but I have been reading lots of things online about how it is difficult to tell their gender at a young age. I’m just curious if anyone on here thinks my black silkie will turn out to be a rooster, just based off of memory on how...
1 of the 4 Silkie chicks I got yesterday seems to have an eye problem.
She's been doing this since I brought them home yesterday afternoon.
I don't think the other chicks pecked her.
Both her eyes are like this.
Yes I know many of you are going to say "TOO YOUNG!!"
Please just tell me what gender they look like to you
I'll get better photos tomorrow
2 of them have slightly bigger combs, does that help?
I'm still trying to see if they have wattles yet.
Sometime tomorrow we're picking up a couple of 4-5 wk old Silkies and currently we don't have a place to put them outside as the chick coop is housing our older chicks. Once the other chicks are big enough to be placed with the flock, these ones will be put in the chick coop.
Will it be fine to...
I have a rooster who seems to have translucent feathers! He’s gorgeous though he’s rather rude. A Silkie/Sebright mix. Is there any possibility that this could be a Silkie trait?
I’d love to know if anyone else has seen this!
My hatch was amazing and I have waaaaaaaaaay too many birds! Help me and get some cuties in the process! They are 3 weeks old now.
1 chick for $10, additional chicks are $5. I do not ship; pick-up only. I am in Northern Colorado. Please message if interested!
My darn silkies are at it again. Just picked up Baycox for coccidiosis from the vet. Now my chicks are sneezing again. They sneeze constantly. Only one has clear discharge in is tiny nostrils. I can't go to the vet again. They sneeze constantly,and have been for a little white (Like almost four...
I'm very new to silkies(I've had my babies for five days), and have a few questions for any silkie experts out there :P
Is there such thing as a crested silkie? Or are all silkies crested? If so, what does a larger crest mean?
What colour variation is my brown baby? Pictures below
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Okay, maybe I'm being a bit overprotective of my chicks. But for one they were expensive and for two they are adorable and I love them. So today I was cleaning the brooder and I saw some dry poop that had a bit of reddish pink in it! Is this possibly cocci?Could it just be intestinal lining and...
Hi everyone, I would love some help with this even though I'm terrified of what the answer might be. I have 3 10-week old black silkies. 'Sofia' is the largest and has longer foot feathers than the other 2. She also has a few iridescent green feathers on her back. I am praying she isn't a...
I have 3 6-week old black silkie chicks who just went out into their coop full time. Two of them are almost identical, and the small one 'Peanut' is catching up quickly. For our other grown sexlink and Orpington hens we use leg bands, but I'm afraid by using them on the silkies they will get...
I know it’s near impossible to sex a silkie until they crow or lay an egg. How about just for fun?
Nugget- 7 weeks old, largest, very docile, slow, calm, almost silent. Dark buff
Buttercup- 7 wks, has two defined “poofs” on head, light buff/ slight partridge coloring starting to come in...
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We ordered 10 chicks that will be here in may. 5 are self blue silkies and 5 are Dominique's. The first time I got silkies I didn't have them in the same broader as the others because they came at different times. This time we are getting them together and I don't know if they can be...
I am looking for 1-2 Silkie chicks or fertile eggs, for indoor pets to be housed with my Seramas in the aviary :) I have a broody hen that’d love to raise chicks.