Arizona Silkies

[Jferlisi]

Ya sure will post some pics when i can. Terri were those ordered eggs? Those blue partridge look so dif then when i hatched mine.

 

[GoldBarRanch]

Well I got something taking my eggs. Took two that were due to hatch last weekend on saturday morning. Some days i get none, some 1 or 2 and some 5 or 6. Im nursing a hen back atm, he over heated today so she has the run of my closet and gave her a nice bath to try and cool her of. She hated the bath part but once i got her dry she started eating and drinking (i think she just wanted a bath

). Since my silkes haven't been super handled and all i cant just walk up to them and pick them up, but today since she was out of commission i notice she had scabs on the bottoms of her feet, and when the girls went to bed i noticed a few of my LF have them but she is the only silkie with them. I had a hatch a few weeks ago where 6 hatched 3 blue EE's and 3 blue silkies and out of the six only 2 EE's made it. And my Ducks are free loading. My pekin pair are about 5 months old and she still isn't laying. LOL


BUT on the good news, i my brother bought 2 pygmy goats and they are staying with us. =D I hate there names so i call them mama and mister (even tho she isn't prego. LOL). My brother named them cactus and classic BORING!!!!!!!!! Ok paragraph over. LOL

Oh but to add, terri, kim the partridge silkie i hatched from your eggs laid her very first egg two days ago. =D Im so happy of her. Now im just waiting for her BFF tori to start laying.

could it be a snake taking your eggs? Sorry to hear about your hen I also lost my polish/silkie roo from the heat last week. I also have a pekin duck and she just stopped laying since the temps started to peek. Dont know what the scab on the feet is about but seems ive heard others talk about it. Ive got a dozen eggs in the bator due the 10th out of BBS pen.

 

[Fuzzybird]

John, those chicks are from my Cotton and Tumbleweed. I don't know if they are blue partridge or not. They will look like Sham did and the hen you have that just layed you got from me.

 

[Jferlisi]

I dont know cause they arent taking my golf balls. I do find thrm out if thr nests. Im wondering if my buff orp roo is digging in the boxes and kicking them out but i dont see egg shells. Unknown. Ill let you know terri. I do have a hen but she has babies. I bet she would take thrm her babies are like a month old and she just adopted slash stole on of my other hens week olds. Lol i love her. She will take anything.

 

[Fuzzybird]

yup, she would adopt these babies I am sure. If that is the one you got from me she will be raising her own siblings. LOL

 

[Jferlisi]

No, that one is kim and she is not sitting yet. Its my dior that will take anything. So i have lost my first hen to the heat. All cause the idiot of a neighbor's daughter cant be responsible enough to care for my girls. She didn't fill there waters while i was in california over the weekend and the Blue hen i was keeping from my hatches died over the weekend. And the girl just left her there in the middle of the duck area. makes me so mad.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Aw dang! I hope you said something to her.

 

[Jferlisi]

I did and she told me she filled them sunday morning. Which is a lie.

 

[jrosemoore]

When is my silkie hen going to hatch?? I can't tell her age, heck, I don't even know if she is a hen? Anyone know how to tell. Her feathers and wattle are giving many clues....

 

[Jferlisi]

hatch? I can tell the dif between mine by when they start feathering out. my males have really fluffly legs before my hens. Post a pic and maybe we can help.