I’m sorryUgh, indeed. I got a rooster and a hen almost a year ago. My hen, that I thought was smart walked into my ducks kiddie pool over night and drowned a few months ago.My rooster is a savage little feral chicken. He sleeps outside cause I can't catch him.
Your post made me laugh! thanks, you have a good sense of humour. Keep trying. Quite a few of my silkies have made it to 10, 11 plus years. I too do haircuts and it helps immensly.I would like to know what the secret is to keeping silkies alive. I swear if it wasn't for me saving them everyday from the mothership they stare up into the sky looking for to come get them. I've had them drown in an inch of water, one just keeled over and another managed to hang herself in the feeder. I've saved them from drowning in the rain, sleeping in planter boxes, roosting a foot off the ground outside the coop. I had one who try and sleep 6 feet from the coop door every night. I love the little buggers but I wish they weren't constantly trying to unalive themselves.
Wow ten years, that's impressive. I've only had them make it to a year. But with their own set up and not free yard time they might live longer. I work at a place with an exotics vet. So I'm the crazy chicken lady according to my coworkers. I'm not actually. I've had someone spend $5000 on a chicken. Don't ask. Each their own. But my coworkers like to buy my chickens gifts. Namely clothes.
Because they think it's hilarious. Just wait until tomorrow when I have to round up 6 chicken's with 6 hats to appease them. 
I use this one, I bought it because I liked the color
It seems to work pretty well for the Silkie and Polish, but my standard hens waste too much feed with this type of feeder.
Ok good because that's the one I bought in bright red, you know in case they can't see their feederI use this one, I bought it because I liked the color
. I don't see how they could get caught in it but than again I didn't think that happen with the last one.
My silkies are out every day (except winter), rain or shine running in they're approx 1/4 acre run. No roof, just fencing, having fun like a chicken should.Wow ten years, that's impressive. I've only had them make it to a year. But with their own set up and not free yard time they might live longer. I work at a place with an exotics vet. So I'm the crazy chicken lady according to my coworkers. I'm not actually. I've had someone spend $5000 on a chicken. Don't ask. Each their own. But my coworkers like to buy my chickens gifts. Namely clothes.
