- Jul 27, 2013
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I have 2 7 week old white silkies that I have made attempts to place in the run with the other birds twice now that ends in disaster! Both times I have had to remove the birds and clean and place blu-kote and leave them in the brooder for another week. I placed them with the silkies in their pen today, and I was walking down to check on them and saw a sex link in the silkie pen. Low and behold, she had torn all the butt fluff from one drawing blood. The other got out of the pen and she had torn her side fluff and wing feathers. I was down near the pen for quite sometime after placing them to watch and no abnormal behavior with just the silkies, so I assume the massacre began once the sex link got in the pen. They are not short on protein as they get layer pellet free choice and starter grower/feather fixer and scratch grain mixed and fed this daily. They get table scraps as well. Any ideas what the cause could be? The first time this happened it was the sex links as well...not just this particular one so I don't think its an isolated problem. These are hatchery silkies and are the size of some of my other chicks in the pen and a tad bigger than my full grown Japanese bantam pair who are also in with the sex links and they didn't even fair this bad, just the typical peck here and there.....
To elaborate, the sex link had to get around the door to the pen, meaning that she had to push the side of the pen away from the door to get to these 2silkies....no other birds were in there that shouldn't have been and no others showed any interest in getting in there.
To elaborate, the sex link had to get around the door to the pen, meaning that she had to push the side of the pen away from the door to get to these 2silkies....no other birds were in there that shouldn't have been and no others showed any interest in getting in there.
