Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

[sonew123]

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I have some up for auction fight now

Are you still selling peeps are ChickenStock?

yuppers Not totally sure how many Im bringing...depends how good of a hatch I get this Sat I have 19 splits in bator and I believe 18 are good-the 19th I think is a blood ring..I hate that~

I know I will have 4 (5weekers) and MAYBE 1 -4 month old roo

 

[bacres]

Any pullets??? My Black pullet just died....

 

[sonew123]

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aw hunny that rots Im sorry...I dont know which ones are pullets yet:-( The roos are the only ones I can totally tell because they crow...LOL I think I heard a new boy crowing the other day and I have a nice split roo already and dont need 2:-(

 

[bacres]

I need a Split Girl..... I hope my 2 lil babies are girls!!!!!

 

[Elite Silkies]

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I'm sorry to hear that. How did she die? We didn't get to see any pics of her did we?

 

[BetsyOK]

The "explosion" of chicks hatching under Moms that I warned my husband to expect has started. Three of the four pullets in the first pen are black/lav splits, and one of the two cockerels who were with them and grew up with them is a black/lav split. So far, of the eight that have hatched, one is a lav. with a high vaulted skull but only four toes on each foot. Several are nice blues, and a couple are obviously a mixture of the blue and the one white pullet. These are all out of Bren's birds. Quite a few more to come.

 

[bacres]

Yesterday I came home and she was just laying there. She never got up, but she wasn't dead. So I brought her in and put her under the heat lamp. Then she died and started to drain a liquid out of her nose, eyes, and mouth as I was taking her outside to the wheel barrow to dispose of her. Any ideas of what it was. Now I have a silkie that is lame. He was in the same pen as the black pullet. I will post a pic of her tomorrow. It is of when she was little.

 

[Elite Silkies]

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Have you checked for mites? That can get them down pretty quick.

 

[bacres]

I will when I get home. I didn't see any on my lame bird. Are those symtoms for mites?

 

[Elite Silkies]

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Well, mites can make them very sick, but I would think that you would have seen some symptoms before she died. But, chickens do not show symptoms until they are very sick.

Was she laying age?