**HELP **Quality Silkies Wet/Matted looking Crest--How to fix?

[chicknfishn]

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[hoppy]

do you have a picture?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Check for mites in the crest.

 

[chicknfishn]

Here is a pictures of 2hens. They pretty much started looking this way as it became Fall and the rains started.

I talked to another friend recently and she said that she has the same problem and that she washes their crests with dog shampoo.

I don't mind doing that but I would like to keep them looking nice after I am done.

 

[chicknfishn]

Here is the other picture of 2 more hens. I really don't think that it is mites.

 

[Buugette]

As long as the weather is crappy and they have access to the weather... they are going to look like it. I have a beautiful white silkie, all poofed and proud... but man, when it rains, she looks horrible. My polish are filthy right now too. Can't wait for good weather to get them bathed and brushed. (Yes, I did say brushed.)

Just check for mites and make sure all is clear.

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[drumstick diva]

you could teach them to drink from those rabbit/hamster type waterers so the crest stays dry. Or maybe pull the crest feathers back like a soft ponytail using hair styling tape.

 

[Diamante]

My silkies end up like that everytime it rains. After a few days it usually dries and goes back to the normal poof.

 

[chicknfishn]

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Well that my problem, here in the rainy Northwest it rains from November thru May!

 

[RhodeRunner]

Quite a few of my Silkies look like that. No matter what I do they seem to find water, and dirt. I can't wait till I can try my new chicken water nipples, but I have to wait till the weather stops freezing. Hopefully, that will do the trick. Otherwise, to get the Silkie to look nice, I find a bath is necessary. And what really gets them to fluff up, is the blow drier.