Silkie chick behaviour

[catchthewind]

Your Silkies are so cute! They are very very quiet. If we pull just one out, it will peep it's little head off. But as long as we take out at least two of them they will just hunker down and cuddle with us. And they are super quiet in the brooder too. Luckily, they are fine with the LF ones so far. One of the Welsummers even seemed to adopt them when they were just a day old. I was so worried about them getting picked on by the slightly older, larger chicks, and instead the little Welsummer laid down next to them and they all snuggled into her and pretty much stayed there for the next two or three days. So cute.

(Side note: I wonder if Welsummers go broody, I bet she'll be a good mom.

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[teach1rusl]

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Or the welsummer is a little cockerel who already has designs on his two sweet little girly girls, so he's being protective...lol!!

 

[chikincrazee]

Hi I have a pile of silkie chicks that hatched for Easter and they are quieter...i have a dozen nankins in with the white silkies and they are more active because the nankins are but the brooder with all the splash/blues and blacks is a pretty laid back bunch mostly sleeping but thats just the way they are. Guess i should put some nankins in with each group for some excitement...lol...enjoy your little puffballs they are just too adorable.

 

[CityChick15]

I had a wonderful white Silkie, Boots, she started acting strange last week (not eating her treats and pacing around the run peeping constantly). I took an electrolyte tonic out to her one morning but I was too late.....she had died.
We thought her behavior was just silly Silkie behavior, at 6 weeks old she had developed several strange (and funny) behaviors (sitting in her food dish, constantly kicking and scratching, even when sitting on someones lap). She was such an entertainer, I should have known as soon as the funny behavior turned into sad looking behavior something was wrong!!

She was smaller than the others and we had a cold snap, but she was under the heat lamp in the coop when she died. The breeder I bought her from said it was failure to thrive, but now that I am reading this thread, it seems like she was sick and died because I failed to respond fast enough

Lesson learned, better to be safe than sorry!!

RIP BOOTS!!

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR TINY BABY!!!

 

[okieinalaska]

Sorry to hear about Boots. RIP.


I have one orpington chick not doing great and I wanted to give it some hard boiled egg so I chopped it up into little bits. It wanted nothing to do with the egg but the silkies discovered it and about lost their little minds. One had a little piece and was running from the other 5 chicks. She was doing a great running back imitation with dodging and weaving, spinning in circles while trying to eat her egg at the same time. It was pretty funny.

here they are ready to take over the world.