Chicken breeders or Folks in South Africa?

[Gwyllm]

@Colin Fow it looks like it lol, they extremely feisty little things those two

 

[Nanna34]

@Nanna34
 your silkies are looking awesome , i'm sure you spent a lot of time outside this weekend with all your chooks lol .

@Gwyllm
 looks like raptor is gonna have his hands full lol

@ Colin Fow yip spent a lot of time with them...wil put up some pics of them later battling with the flu and low blood sugar not a good combo

 

[Colin Fow]

@ Colin Fow yip spent a lot of time with them...wil put up some pics of them later battling with the flu and low blood sugar not a good combo

I hope it's not bird flu, take it easy and look after yourself, get better soon!

 

[Nanna34]

I hope it's not bird flu, take it easy and look after yourself, get better soon!

Lol no just normal flu thank goodness.

The silkie eggs have really thin shells us this normal?

 

[Colin Fow]

@Nanna34 i'm not an eggspert on silkies yet but I don't think they should be much thinner then normal eggs, smaller yes but maybe not much thinner then normal eggs, It could be possible that they were fed more on greens and things that didn't have much calcium in, you could try giving them some normal chicken feed once or twice a day and some sort of calcium supplement and see if it gets better in a few days, if it stays the same well then maybe they do have thin shells lol, maybe someone else will have a bit more knowledge than me on silkies.

 

[Nanna34]

@Nanna34
 i'm not an eggspert on silkies yet but I don't think they should be much thinner then normal eggs, smaller yes but maybe not much thinner then normal eggs, It could be possible that they were fed more on greens and things that didn't have much calcium in, you could try giving them some normal chicken feed once or twice a day and some sort of calcium supplement and see if it gets better in a few days, if it stays the same well then maybe they do have thin shells lol, maybe someone else will have a bit more knowledge than me on silkies.

Thanks I put some oyster shells in their food it should help, I don't think the previous owners really cared for them that well

 

[Nanna34]

My beautiful Silkies, we put them in the rabbit pen because they fit in the hutch.

 

[Nanna34]

Its day 6 of the incubation project and we have 6 embryos!

 

[Colin Fow]

Its day 6 of the incubation project and we have 6 embryos!

well done , at least those won't be stolen lol , we have just had a total of 75 chicks hatch which is our best hatching so far , we are seriously going to have to swap chickens one day lol.

 

[Colin Fow]

busy with the run and coop for some quails coming soon, so exciting can't wait.