We appreciate all the kind replies to our posts! We're so happy to be able to share our new backyard hobby within this community! We wanted to share our updated photos of our young flock and ask some questions about our new additions.
Over the weekend, we took a road trip to a farm where we got...
Hi so my older silkie hen is 5 or 6 years old, (breeder didn't know if she was 1 or 2 when we got her) has been getting red in her brow and wattle, but otherwise is fine, eating drinking and pooping. I don't know when it started because the past few weeks has been rough with a sick, then dying...
Hi y'all
I hope to get to know yall.
1. I am kinda new, only kept chickens after moving to Austin Tx.
2. This year, the number went down, but I currently have 5 silkies, one blue egg mix, and a rouge rooster.
3. I really like to focus on color egg layers. They are more fun
4. For me, I really...
Some more pics of our flock incoming! We seem to be a bit confused about our most recent few that we got at Tractor Supply a couple weeks ago if you guys could lend a hand as to your thoughts!
There was a bin that had Easter Egger and Starlight Green Egger pullets in it at Tractor Supply. Kyle...
For Mother’s Day this year, I picked up 3 silkie chicks for myself at a local swap. The first one started to crow around 8 weeks old, second one started to crow a couple weeks ago (this one wasn’t a surprise, it is a satin and had a very large straight comb), and the third I’m just not so sure...
Can you guys help me sex some of my chickens that im confused about? First one is an ameraucana, 6 months old. Second one is a silkie buff Orpington mix, 3 months old. Third one is the same as the second one, also 3 months old.
I couldn’t find any information about this online so I was wondering if you bred a regular show silkie to a satin silkie and kept a regular silkie feathered chick from the pair, wound that chick produce satins in his/her offspring making the silkie you held back “het satin” or will it just...
This one hatched yesterday and looked like this today. What do we do? How do we help them? Any advice is appreciated. This is one of our silkie chicks, hatched with a piece of shell stuck to their back if that's any correlation. We think they may have rubbed the feathers off, they were still wet...
The darker one is 13 weeks and seems to be a pullet. But her color is unlike what I’ve seen before. I say she’s dark chocolate with ashiness but my husband says more black/salt n pepper coloring. She is beautiful and tiny and a little skittish. Always has been. Fairly certain she is a girl. But...
These r 10 week old silkies except the satin roo might actually be older as crest started growing over a week before the others and crowed 3 weeks ago for first time. I know I have 1 black (crow), 1 blue (Sasha who I thought would b maybe but grew darker), and either paint/ splash( dizzy) who...
We are back from our honeymoon and it looks like our birds have already grown so much in just a few days! Also, we added a few new friends to the flock!
We're feeling like Cotton might be a rooster (so hard at a young age, especially for silkies as we're learning) but there appears to be a V...
I have a 5.5 month old silkie who tried to lay her first egg. She might have pushed too hard that her insides came out. I managed to squeeze the egg out the prolapse sack but now dealing with the aftermath of keeping prolapse inside her. Picture included.
is the yellow part still part of her...
Hello! I’ve just hatched these beautiful babies:) I’m not sure if it’s even possible to tell this young, but I got these hatching eggs knowing they could be silkies or silkie mixes. The person I got them from said her silkies tended to stay with their own but she also kept a svarthona, a hmong...
Some updated photos of our flock that includes their age and breed.
Thoughts on hen or rooster for our flock? We're pretty sure Bonbon is a rooster... We're not allowed roosters in the city we live in 😭
Thanks in advance!
Hey, I bought a pair of silkies from someone on facebook and after coming home and inspecting them I noticed one chick had a wound on its back neck and quite a few yellowish tiny bugs within its feathers and the other chick also had a couple of the yellowish bugs. Now I’m worried to introduce...
Hello chicken lovers!
I love these birds but I was DUPED by ye-old Tractor Supply shortly after Hurricane Helene and ended up with some breeds I can't manage in my small flock, including a rooster that was supposed to be a pullet (begging others NOT to buy from TSC anymore! They're AWFUL!!!) I...
i have a roughly 20 month old silkie hen. She has been super broody the past 10 days and have been pulling her out of the nesting box every day to try break it, but she would also sometimes get kicked out by my 2 bantam Cochins who also wanted to use this particular box. They would sometimes...