New to Back Yard Chickens and already better off!

Pics
Date sort Score sort
Folly's place said:
Welcome!
Some chicks just won't do well, and it can't be helped. If she's just small, but healthy, that's great, but if she has some actual health issue, not so great. Genetic issues do crop up, and birds who just aren't 'built right' for some reason.
Often Silkies do better with their own coop, being less able to manage with those 'normal' chickens in your flock.
And home grown chickens do taste really good!
How about posting some chick photos?
Adding your general location helps here, and get on your state thread too.
Mary
Click to expand...
Thanks for your reply Mary,
I hope I'm typing this in the right spot. I'll keep my eye on her. She's so small she's not even a whole chicken nugget, she's a chicken mcnibble...I think we just found her name. I try to get some photos in here. My teens just informed me that it needs the biggest name of the flock, so 'Grand Chancellor Chicken McNibblesworth the First' it is! It had to be, since the other silkie, the second smallest was already named 'The Vicious Chicken of Bristol'.


TwoCrows said:
Hello there and welcome to BYC! :frow

Some chicks are genetically runts. But a good vitamin supplement may help. And some chicks out grow the runt stage and grow to be normal sized after time.

Enjoy your flock and welcome to ours!
Click to expand...
Hello and thank you,
I added a vitamin B complex to the probiotics and electrolytes in their water and the little silkie has much more energy today. The other chicks do too though. It's pretty funny. They zip from one end to the other like little lightening bolts. I also added vinegar to the water and food grade diatomaceous earth to their food just in case the little one has a worm, though I don't know where it could fit one, it's sooo small. I'm ordering the nutri-flush today so she can get more of the fat soluble vitamins as well.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom