Silkie thread!

[TheChicknGarden]

Quote: make him your inside chicken

 

[michellex5]

I luv my white silkie! Her name is Diva! She looks just like yours!

 

[TheChicknGarden]

Well, I am just sick. I had a chick hatching just a few minutes ago. It was zipping and working it's way around the egg and chirping. I was doing other things and kept coming back to watch. I left it too long and came back and realized it was no longer moving. I grabbed it out and peeled it back and it had already suffocated and died! I'm sooooo upset! It was a BLACK which I really, really wanted. It was one of my own chicks, and it had perfect feet, too. In fact, the extra toes on each foot had amazing separation. I know, I'm sick, I popped it out of the shell, tried to rub it to stimulate it and then when I realized it was gone, checked it over. The membrane was stuck on it. It must have sealed up and suffocated it. I wish I had caught it sooner. No blood, no nothing, just slid right out when I peeled it back.

awww booo! so sorry .... hope the rest of your hatch goes better.... wishing you luck!

 

[Silkielover16]

Here are my 3 week old Silkie chicks making it obvious that they are boys! Apparently some are easier to sex early than others!!!

Is this a common thing with Silkies??? I've never seen this sort of fighting with any of my large fowl. Not even the early crowers were this determined.


My chicks do this too i think there making there pecking order but mine are 8 weeks old
action shot!!

 

[marquisella]

I wrote a week or so ago asking about non-fertility in my cockerels. Someone suggeted cutting back the "fluff" around the cockerels "manly" parts...

Well, I went & took a look at 2 of the boys, and sure enough, both had large matted feather clumps right in front. I guess that prevented him from consumating and probably each time they tried, it just added to the "gunky blob".

So, I carefully cut the chunks away a couple of days ago, and today I cracked open fertilized eggs. Yes, those eggs were wasted, but if they weren't I would be wasting space in my incubator...

Thanks for the information....

 

[Hawkeye95]

WOW!! I've never seen anything like that-- where they just go at it and don't give up! They are going for big mouthful's of feathers! Darn birds! I don't know, but I'd bet money on the both of them being boys. I've had girls chest bump and fly up feet first, but that's about it. Nothing like that!

Here are my 3 week old Silkie chicks making it obvious that they are boys! Apparently some are easier to sex early than others!!!

Is this a common thing with Silkies??? I've never seen this sort of fighting with any of my large fowl. Not even the early crowers were this determined.

 

[sager:)silkies]

WOW!! I've never seen anything like that-- where they just go at it and don't give up! They are going for big mouthful's of feathers! Darn birds! I don't know, but I'd bet money on the both of them being boys. I've had girls chest bump and fly up feet first, but that's about it. Nothing like that!

ya ive never seen that b4 mine dont really even start chest bumping till about 4 weeks they seem to be fighting preety serious ive only seen my adult silkie roosters go at it like that i bet they are boys and gina be agrissive ones to i bet.

 

[Silkielover16]

ya i totally agree i looked at it again and all mine do is chestbumps but NOTHING like that

 

[peepblessed]

Well, I am just sick. I had a chick hatching just a few minutes ago. It was zipping and working it's way around the egg and chirping. I was doing other things and kept coming back to watch. I left it too long and came back and realized it was no longer moving. I grabbed it out and peeled it back and it had already suffocated and died! I'm sooooo upset! It was a BLACK which I really, really wanted. It was one of my own chicks, and it had perfect feet, too. In fact, the extra toes on each foot had amazing separation. I know, I'm sick, I popped it out of the shell, tried to rub it to stimulate it and then when I realized it was gone, checked it over. The membrane was stuck on it. It must have sealed up and suffocated it. I wish I had caught it sooner. No blood, no nothing, just slid right out when I peeled it back.

Oh, Hawkeye, that is soooo sad!! I have never seen that happen to one that is zipping.

 

[peepblessed]

I wrote a week or so ago asking about non-fertility in my cockerels. Someone suggeted cutting back the "fluff" around the cockerels "manly" parts...

Well, I went & took a look at 2 of the boys, and sure enough, both had large matted feather clumps right in front. I guess that prevented him from consumating and probably each time they tried, it just added to the "gunky blob".

So, I carefully cut the chunks away a couple of days ago, and today I cracked open fertilized eggs. Yes, those eggs were wasted, but if they weren't I would be wasting space in my incubator...

Thanks for the information....

Great news!!!!!!