Arizona Chickens

[Sonoran Silkies]

Well Gang, I got 11 chicks out of the 14 eggs. 3 are not pipping yet. I am so excited! Thank you Aurorarose they are such beauties! I learned what the lump on the head is. Its called Vaulted Head. It dates back to when the silkies were bred to polish to introduce different colors. The Vaulted head is desired by some of the show breeders for it makes for a bigger more fluffy topknot. It is really the brain with out a scull bone. They can get hurt if they happen to get hit in the head. Never can you breed a vaulted head to another one for a fatal gene will acure. I may even have another chick with that but not as big.
PUFFYCHEEKS, LOVE THAT GOOSE TALE. WISH I HAD SEEN THAT! Here is pictures of my new peepers!


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Cute chickies, but inaccurate information. Yes, the knob is a vaulted skull, but it is NOT a fatal gene; if it were, there would be far fewer polish as vaulted skulls are a required trait for polish. In most cases the skull eventually grows to cover all or most of the vault. Most breeders currently neither breed for nor against the vault. There is mixed data as to whether the vault will allow for a larger crest or not. Most vaulted skull silkies have largish crests; however many non-vaulted silkies also have largish crests. Yes, silkies with vaulted skulls are more sensitive to head injury than are non-vaulted skull birds.

 

[pastrymama]

azchicken
i have the genesis 1588(newest edition). yes, it is a foam bator, but jimmy crack corn and I DON'T CARE. it incubates and hatches chicks, so what the hey! all i have to do is monitor the water, that's it. i cannot afford a brinsea nor did i want to ask for one of those for my bday, it's not necessary. laree has 3 different kinds of bators, perhaps she will jump in a give her opinion. she has a brinsea, a hovabator and a reptipro.

 

[pastrymama]

sonoran silkies,
anything painted ready to come home with me yet?

and mikey, you really should go look at her yard. preferably when she's there so it's not stealing when you take home a box of silkies and pass them off as poodles to tammy.

 

[Mikey D]

Thanks for the wishes peeps. I checked the rest this afternoon & Princess (one of the wellsummers) has an eye glued shut as well. I put her in with the first Spitz and am adding Tetracycline to the water.

I've not got time to check the 2 pages of posts, will do that when we get back. (B'day dinner with my dad, he's 74)

I guess I had to run into difficulty some time.

Prayers for the peepers.

Mikey

 

[AZKat]

I don't have any Wheaten Ameraucana's after all.

The kids had left the two side gates open, and a neighbor's cockapoo got in and killed them all. I ran outside when I heard them squawking in distress, and by the time I'd gotten there he was running out of the yard with the last one in his mouth. I think that all the pullets are ok, I could only find seven of them, I'm hoping that the missing three are just hiding really well. I'm just absolutely sick about this.

Update: All ten pullets are accounted for. One has a few torn tail feathers, but they are otherwise unharmed.

 

[Arizonachicken]

azchicken


i have the genesis 1588(newest edition). yes, it is a foam bator, but jimmy crack corn and I DON'T CARE. it incubates and hatches chicks, so what the hey! all i have to do is monitor the water, that's it. i cannot afford a brinsea nor did i want to ask for one of those for my bday, it's not necessary. laree has 3 different kinds of bators, perhaps she will jump in a give her opinion. she has a brinsea, a hovabator and a reptipro.

Thank you or the information. The Genesis does look nice, and it sure has worked for you! One of my new girls laid an egg today already!

How long will it stay viable?

 

[Arizonachicken]

I don't have any Wheaten Ameraucana's after all.

The kids had left the two side gates open, and a neighbor's cockapoo got in and killed them all. I ran outside when I heard them squawking in distress, and by the time I'd gotten there he was running out of the yard with the last one in his mouth. I think that all the pullets are ok, I could only find seven of them, I'm hoping that the missing three are just hiding really well. I'm just absolutely sick about this.

So sorry, that's just awful.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Cute chickies, but inaccurate information. Yes, the knob is a vaulted skull, but it is NOT a fatal gene; if it were, there would be far fewer polish as vaulted skulls are a required trait for polish. In most cases the skull eventually grows to cover all or most of the vault. Most breeders currently neither breed for nor against the vault. There is mixed data as to whether the vault will allow for a larger crest or not. Most vaulted skull silkies have largish crests; however many non-vaulted silkies also have largish crests. Yes, silkies with vaulted skulls are more sensitive to head injury than are non-vaulted skull birds.

Thank you SS for correcting me. I sure thought I had a deformed chick when I first saw it. I think I have another one but not as rounded as that one was.
So this chick is not more likely to be a show chicken than any other normal headed?
How much apple cider Vinegar do I use in the water?

 

[Fuzzybird]

AWWW AZKAT, I am sorry.

 

[pastrymama]

Thank you or the information. The Genesis does look nice, and it sure has worked for you! One of my new girls laid an egg today already!

How long will it stay viable?

i think fertility starts to decline after 7 days? i am sure someone will jump in and set me straight. me thinks you need to order something NOW!!!!!!!!