Silkie thread!

[lorijohnson823]

Very Cute Coop!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Just noticed one of our chicks has pink toes too. Le sigh. No breeding for you.

If the skin is all dark except for a few pink toes, they will almost certainly darken as the chick matures. It is common.

 

[lorijohnson823]

I got some new Silkies today. Squeeeeee! I love my Silkies!

This is Henryetta. I have another buff girl, that I've had for a while named Harriet. I thought her name would be a perfect match for my two buff girls!



This is Madam. She is an older hen. The Roos really like her, some of her feathers are missing. But she is still beautiful.



This is my little pullet girl. I have not named her yet. She is very adventurous. She was wandering today, I gotta be careful.

 

[tilosi]

Very Cute Coop!!

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I got some new Silkies today. Squeeeeee! I love my Silkies!

This is Henryetta. I have another buff girl, that I've had for a while named Harriet. I thought her name would be a perfect match for my two buff girls!



This is Madam. She is an older hen. The Roos really like her, some of her feathers are missing. But she is still beautiful.



This is my little pullet girl. I have not named her yet. She is very adventurous. She was wandering today, I gotta be careful.

All beautiful!!

Congrats!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Not specifically wry tail, but if you read through these pages you will find some references to scoliosis in chickens.

 

[jhfamily5]

Just thought I would say I did contact the person I got the eggs from. I just said for their records I thought they should know how my hatch went. They contacted me almost immediately and offered to replace the eggs for the cost of shipping saying they have never hatched pink skin from their pen before. and suggested maybe waiting until the temps cool a little bit so the eggs have a better trip. Now I am wondering if maybe the eggs got xrayed or something? Maybe that could explain multiple chicks with bad toes and pink skin? IDK I am going to try it again either way so we will see. I also have another BYC member who has buffs and is willing to hatch some chicks for me and ship me the best they get for a pretty good price so we will see how it goes. I will post some pictures of my new chicks on here later tonight....

Thank goodness for BYC and all the help and advice on here ! If I just had my DH to talk about chickens with he might think I have really lost it and leave me.... He teases me now about how much I talk chickens, chickens, chickens...... LOL If he only knew how much time I spent on here....

I am not alone! I talk about my chickens all the time too and I don't have any friends with chickens. My friends all think I am nuts and call me a crazy chicken lady. Somedays I feel like pointing out how much they all talk about their dogs/puppies and calling them "crazy ____ ladies". I wouldn't, but I am tempted.

 

[diornisextant]

I jut got my first silke chick and she seems to be not growing I have her on sulfadimethaxine now and she is active and eats well . i have a serama hen acting as broodie for her and she is on a medicated feed I was given as the feed she was eating. the other chicks from the same batch are about 2-3 times her size. her stools are normal and her activity level and appetite are good but she does feel thin to me also. She seems to want lots of protein is there anything Different about silkie care I am missing ? I wasn't given any special instruction. I gave her supervised free range and she was hunting bugs like crazy paying no attention to greens or grains or any other foods . I gave her a pert of a cherry and she ran to it but then tossed it aside as if she was disgusted it was fruit and not meat. any tips on getting this kid to grow or do you think she may be from a different line or breed of silkie like bantam cochin instead of standard? Miss Buffy Lizardfoot we lost her frizzle cochin bud Fluffy Slipper 24 hrs in.

 

[Suzierd]

I have the same problem with my "hopeful" pullets turning into roosters.  Guys joke about being Chick Magnets I'm beginning to think I'm a Rooster Magnet!

I'm not sure what I will do, once I figure out genders of my silkies.  Right now, I try to sell whoever has a fault pop up because I don't want it in future babies.  For example, I just noticed 2 of my splash cockerels are getting a few red tipped feathers.  (I'm 95% sure they are cockerels, but either way...)  They will have to be re-homed.   

Suzie, how many hens do you have with the 2 roosters?  I've seen some breeding pens with a 1 to 6 ratio.  And, I've seen other people that just build daytime "tractors" for a breeding pair, but then everyone sleeps in the same coop at night.  I've built tractors out of wood and PVC pipe for about $30.  You could keep one rooster & hen in the tractor and the other in the pen or free ranging without building a second coop.  Just an idea. 

Yes I'm a rooster magnet! Loll
I thought about making something like that, but I think my husband will have a fit if I try making another pen and it has to be strong lots of predators here. Our land is on a hill and lumpy so it's hard to get a tractor flat. I would live to see a pic of your tractor. These last three young silkies I bought I knew one could be a boy but the lady I bought them from and I both thought the other two were pullets but no I have two cockerels one Pullet, so I thought I would get another Pullet from her to put with them and hope that will work. With my luck it will turn into a Roo too! Lol

 

[Suzierd]

Any way the extra boys could free range, eating bugs and grass and all the other goodies of life they will enjoy out of the pen?

I would love to be able to free range but we have lots of predators here. Dogs,hawks, falcons, owls,raccoons, opossums, skunks. My neighbor claims a cougar got her goose right in her yard in the middle of the day!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I jut got my first silke chick and she seems to be not growing I have her on sulfadimethaxine now and she is active and eats well . i have a serama hen acting as broodie for her and she is on a medicated feed I was given as the feed she was eating. the other chicks from the same batch are about 2-3 times her size. her stools are normal and her activity level and appetite are good but she does feel thin to me also. She seems to want lots of protein is there anything Different about silkie care I am missing ? I wasn't given any special instruction. I gave her supervised free range and she was hunting bugs like crazy paying no attention to greens or grains or any other foods . I gave her a pert of a cherry and she ran to it but then tossed it aside as if she was disgusted it was fruit and not meat. any tips on getting this kid to grow or do you think she may be from a different line or breed of silkie like bantam cochin instead of standard? Miss Buffy Lizardfoot we lost her frizzle cochin bud Fluffy Slipper 24 hrs in.

silkies are bantams, usually being between 2-3 pounds, all fluff to their size usually

if its a chick I would confine it, and feed it starter... also I do not suggest feeding cherries to chickens, they are not good for them.
If the chick is healthy and active, but just small still, don't worry to much, i think its fine. if its slow, lethargic, sickly, then I'd worry about cocci or something else being ill and wrong with it.