Silkie thread!

[peepblessed]

Well I am glad I could offer some good advice lol, y'all have been extremely helpful since I have been posting! We worked all day today on the chicken house. Instead of posting my coop photos again in here. I will give you the thread! There is some funny pics of silkies in there! My daughters marans went to the neighbors today when he started crowing at 8am!


Chicken Ranch





https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/648990/first-coop-design-build/30#post_8924864

OMG!!! Sooooo awesome!!! Adorable pictures of Einstein!!

 

[Sanna]

Well I am glad I could offer some good advice lol, y'all have been extremely helpful since I have been posting! We worked all day today on the chicken house. Instead of posting my coop photos again in here. I will give you the thread! There is some funny pics of silkies in there! My daughters marans went to the neighbors today when he started crowing at 8am!


Chicken Ranch





https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/648990/first-coop-design-build/30#post_8924864

That is SO cool!!!

I want to live there! lol

 

[Hawkeye95]

How long before they grow back? My poor Roger got attacked by a hawk today, and he survived it. BUT is scalped pretty good as you can see... Should I neosporin him? The only places that seem to have bloody spots are on his walnut... everything else is just raw. I am afraid to blu-kote him since its so close to the eyes... What ya'll think would be the best plan of action. This guy put up on hell of a fight.

If it scalped the skin it may never grow back, but it doesn't look that bad - I'd say it start growing back soon but won't look anything close to 'normal' for quite a few months.

Antibiotic ointment - thin. You should probably keep him seperated for a few days until it scabs up, you can put him in the crate in the pen with his ladies during the day, but wouldn't let him loose with them because they will want to peck his head while its freshly wounded/ You can try blue kote on a cotton swab or piece of cloth (would definitely wear gloves) and dab it on his wounded areas, should help keep it to one area and out of his eyes.

Also agree on supplementing him with eggs, electrolytes in water (or even just sugar) for a couple days - keep him boosted to speed up healing and get over the stress of the attack.

X2. My turkey attacked one of my Polish a few months back and my Polish lost almost her entire crest! The skin was picked clear off on her head and there was just blood everywhere. I got a wire dog kennel, and put her in that. The first thing I did though, was because she was in shock, I wrapped her in a towel and put triple antibiotic on her head and kept her warm and calm. She wasn't responding very well, so I used a syringe (no needle, of course) and put sugar water down her beak to perk her up. Day two, she was still not doing well and I spent the entire day getting a little tub of yogurt down her beak with the syringe and more sugar water. She snapped out of it by the end of that night and I transferred her to the wire dog kennel. I kept her in the dog kennel for 3 weeks until her scalp healed back. Her skin grew back over her head and pin feathers came back! By 4 weeks, she had most of her crest growing back in (although it was short, but there. I put her back in the coop with the others and they attacked her on her crest. They could tell her crest wasn't "right". So I kept her another couple more weeks in the kennel and put her back out when her crest was all back in. No one messed with her after that! I just kept applying the triple antibiotic every day and syringed her when she refused to eat.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Well I am glad I could offer some good advice lol, y'all have been extremely helpful since I have been posting! We worked all day today on the chicken house. Instead of posting my coop photos again in here. I will give you the thread! There is some funny pics of silkies in there! My daughters marans went to the neighbors today when he started crowing at 8am!


Chicken Ranch





https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/648990/first-coop-design-build/30#post_8924864

Beautiful coop!

 

[3ChickensinNC]

How long before they grow back? My poor Roger got attacked by a hawk today, and he survived it. BUT is scalped pretty good as you can see... Should I neosporin him? The only places that seem to have bloody spots are on his walnut... everything else is just raw. I am afraid to blu-kote him since its so close to the eyes... What ya'll think would be the best plan of action. This guy put up on hell of a fight.

to you and Roger. How very upsetting. Poor fellow. No words. I am new to silkies so mine are just babies, but if that happened to one of mine I would be in a panic and in shock too. Hope he heals quickly.

 

[3ChickensinNC]

Well I am glad I could offer some good advice lol, y'all have been extremely helpful since I have been posting! We worked all day today on the chicken house. Instead of posting my coop photos again in here. I will give you the thread! There is some funny pics of silkies in there! My daughters marans went to the neighbors today when he started crowing at 8am!


Chicken Ranch





https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/648990/first-coop-design-build/30#post_8924864

That is AWESOME. You could have like a million silkies in there....lol. Okay maybe not that many, but I would be packing it full.

 

[Laingcroft]

Chicken Ranch

I LOVE it! Now I have something to show the hubby. He's not going to be happy with you

 

[Laingcroft]

How long before they grow back? My poor Roger got attacked by a hawk today, and he survived it. BUT is scalped pretty good as you can see... Should I neosporin him? The only places that seem to have bloody spots are on his walnut... everything else is just raw. I am afraid to blu-kote him since its so close to the eyes... What ya'll think would be the best plan of action. This guy put up on hell of a fight.

Oh poor baby. So glad he survived.

I have a little polish chick that escaped his brooder pen and the big roo found him. He was "scalped" along the neck and in the middle of his crest. He looked like a tonsured monk! I put a little sock over his eyes/beak area and sprayed with blu kote (needed an assistant) then very carefully in the center of his crest; waited a few minutes for it to dry and then put him in a little brooder box with a d'uccle chick who couldn't reach to peck and make it worse. Here's a picture with his buddy six days later. The feathers are growing back just fine now (almost a month later), but it may be because he is a chick.

 

[ChickensXOXO]

Is this chick anything like a porcelain chick? ....or ?
Most of my chicks are looking like this, and I'm ready to see how they turn out.

The dad is splash, and the momma is the one in my display picture.

 

[3ChickensinNC]

I would love it if you all could help me identify the colors of my two week old silkies. They are hatchery chicks, but at the time that is the only place I could find some in my area. Anyway I ordered 4 and got 5. I diffently know which one is the white,1 of 2 blues and buff are that I ordered, so I did not take any pics of those three. Of the two left I should have1 blue , so which one is my second blue and what is the extra one. Here are the pics:
This one is what I thought was white but I could see a tint of grey/blue in the fur. Now the feathers in the wings are coming in and there are a few strands that are black/blue:


The next one is either my second blue or an extra of what color blue/black?

Thanks for helping this newbie out on colors? Really like to know what my extra one is? Very hard now that the white one is showing a tint of color.