Please help the time has come and have found a home for my silkie roo.(5 to 6 mo old) But question is about my frizzle all she has known is him and me and the dogs of course but oh boy my hart is so sad I can only imagine how she is going to be tomarrow . And him of course his new home sounds great they will keep him inside also. But can she become depressed what should I do besides the obvious lots of extra love. And if I do get.her a friend can it be a chick or should it be her age. They have never been apart and have a sitter to watch her while we hand deliver him so she won't be alone.
I had a similar situation. I had two Partridge Silkies since they were day-old. One turned out to be a male, was a noisy crower, and kept mating the female too many times every day so we re-homed him. 3 months later I found a female Silkie around 3 or 4 months old to take his place so the female Partridge wouldn't be the only Silkie in the flock. It turned out the two female Silkies are not the best buddies but they do toodle around together foraging and hanging out together. I had hoped they would be really nice to each other but they have totally different personalities. The two Silkies are about 8 months apart but the younger one is more snotty than the older one. You just never know if two Silkies will be best buddies or not but at least they won't be alone since chickens are flock birds. If you don't want to chance getting an incompatible personality Silkie friend for your single Silkie then a mirror will do nicely as a companion "friend." I use a door mirror lying on it's side for any new juvenile I get and during quarantine I will give her the mirror for company. The juvenile will talk to herself, run alongside the mirror, and sleep next to the "other" chicken in the mirror. I taped a plastic bag at the end of the mirror for the juvenile to "groom" but someone suggested to use a feather duster. I prefer using the plastic bag only because I don't want the juvenile getting used to picking at anything resembling feathers. If we had to leave the house during the day we left a talk radio station on so voices would help the juvenile not feel alone while we were gone.
TWO SILKIES -- 41/2 yrs old and 5 yrs old
DOOR MIRROR ON ITS SIDE W/PLASTIC BAG ON THE END -- chickens love to see themselves in the mirror -- this juvenile kept talking and kissing her reflection in this mirror. We had a baby chick once and gave her a mirror for companionship -- she would run to it to see herself and would take her mid-day snoozes with her "friend."
