Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[pennie1]

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Okay Pennie, I have to be honest here. Your going to have to send them to me so I can get a better look (Don't worry I'll send them back)

They are gorgeous

 

[pennie1]

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Okay Pennie, I have to be honest here. Your going to have to send them to me so I can get a better look (Don't worry I'll send them back)

They are gorgeous

Thanks a whole bunch. I just love them dearly. As I said earlier - three of them are sold and it's going to be SO hard to part with them. But I have the 2nd. hatch growing out and there are some doozers in there too, so I can't keep them all.

 

[pistol123]

Beautiful!

 

[pennie1]

Thank you too!!

 

[NewToFarming]

Well, I rigged up a fan for the coop. I have it that it will draw the cooler air from the back of the barn into the coop. It seems to have helped a little. They just got frozen cantelope too. I sure hope this ends soon!!!

 

[Elite Silkies]

Me too! It's horrible, and the poor birds are suffering. I don't think it will end for at least another month or so in Oklahoma. I thought that my coops would smell horrible wetting them down so much, but they smell better than they ever have.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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You're likely to break her broodiness, and I would definitely not recommend using cold water, but luke-cool (as compared with luke-warm) water should be fine for cooling the birds, in general

 

[NewToFarming]

Yeah, that is what I was thinking too. I just got them off their nest a few times today to make sure they drank more. The fan is helping too.

 

[pennie1]

I have a hen that has been broody for ever..remember how I wanted a broody so bad?...Well, she won't sit on eggs - she sits on them for about a day and moves off. I gave her a baby and she was doing really well with it for a few days - and killed it... I think I am going to have to try the water because I think I have tried everything else to break her. I have put her on wire, I have chased her off of whatever and whenever she sets down on something. I have put her in with roosters... I have given her a bath.. I don't know what else to try. Any suggestions?

 

[NewToFarming]

Gosh, I don't know and sorry about the little chick too!! I have one that is broody by day and a swinging chick by night that is driving me nuts. She gathers eggs during the day and then won't lay on them at night and she is definitely broody acting all puffed up and clucking but has to be on the perch at night... It sounds like you tried everything to break a broody that I know of and sorry I don't have any new ideas for you!