Silkie thread!

[NewToFarming]

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Your chickeys look a whole lot like alot of my guys even the very last pic of the Roo. He is a spitting image of my AJ. He is about 5 months old. They are all so cute!!

I will definitely get some up for you this weekend. I have to get a new one of AJ. He was out running with the big girls when I had the camera out last weekend! LOL So I wasn't able to get any of him.

 

[Colie <3]

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I need to get some hatching eggs from you!

I would love to sell ya some but I am not selling yet. My girls are being little diva's

They hung little posters saying NO EGG'S...LOL

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

I went out this morning to feed/water everybody and a new pullet is laying.

A black one. She just turned 8 months old. She's been paired up with a splash cockerel for 2 weeks, so I will put in some eggs from her next week.


Also, went through some more birds. Listed 3 buff pullets for sale on my website and one here http://www.featherauction.com/detail.asp?id=846

Got to candle my eggs on Sunday, that will be 4 days into cooking so i'm hoping for some veining.

Here's my facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/#!/SundownSilkies Ran out of space to put new pics up on my website.

 

[Colie <3]

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I think all roos end up with a walnut comb sort of similar to the one pictured. I pretty sure the standard calls for a darker color of mulberry instead of bright red. At 11 weeks it's hard to tell on a lot of silkies who's a pullet and who's a cockerel. I have 7 week olds and one for sure is a pullet, on for sure is a hen the rest I have no idea!
Does your little one have mites or bloody stool? Have you wormed them? Just guessing here. My Peepers (lav ameruacana) was pretty sick for awhile. I wormed her and gave her a round of antibiotics and she perked back up.

No bloody stool or mites now. They've had rounds of meds that seemed to have helped and she can find the food dish and water dish but she is nothing but a bag of nerves and can't even see to go out of the cage when I take them out for "walks."

Another random guess but are they eating and drinking normal? Crops ok? My Little Peepers was pitiful when she showed up all droopy and puffed up then her crop started to not empty it was touch and go with her for awhile... She was wormed had a treatment of sulmet and got electrolytes/vitamins added to her water for a few days until I noticed she was drinking less water with the electrolytes in it, guess the taste bothered her.
About two days into her isolation I noticed her crop was bigger than her head and rock hard. Overnight it wasn't emptying, not even close. She also went from being puffed up and lethargic to 10 x's worse. I freaked, of course... lol I monitored her 24/7 lots of crop massages, olive oil and yogurt. I was so sure she was gonna die cause she never seemed to be improving just seemed to get more and more lethargic and pitiful. Then a few days later the breeder I got her from suggested this so I put one of my sweetest silkies in there with her and her condition improved within 24 hours. Idk! I'm just glad she's better now, she's still a loud complainer and hates when you go to pick her up but once you're holding her she is the sweetest thing, loves to snuggle

Really though if the little one had lice pretty bad I'm sure that would take a lot out of her you're probably at a point where all you can do is supportive care and hope for the best. Keep checking for lice/mites, be proactive, best wishes

 

[Tanichca]

Silkie babies are in the small cages! After pulling broken feathers (a horrible task, i feel like they all hate me now) they each went into their personal cage space, with food (in a muffin paper tub) and water (in a glass bowl) now... we wait. They also got shavings, so the area smells like pine

 

[Teresaann24]

WooHoo Got eggs from my project pen this morning

 

[robin416]

I listed a white pair of 2010 white Silkies on Bid Bird this afternoon. They can be found here: http://bidbirdauctions.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=983840459

 

[Miss Lydia]

very pretty

 

[Cindilou]

Colie <3 :

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No bloody stool or mites now. They've had rounds of meds that seemed to have helped and she can find the food dish and water dish but she is nothing but a bag of nerves and can't even see to go out of the cage when I take them out for "walks."

Another random guess but are they eating and drinking normal? Crops ok? My Little Peepers was pitiful when she showed up all droopy and puffed up then her crop started to not empty it was touch and go with her for awhile... She was wormed had a treatment of sulmet and got electrolytes/vitamins added to her water for a few days until I noticed she was drinking less water with the electrolytes in it, guess the taste bothered her.
About two days into her isolation I noticed her crop was bigger than her head and rock hard. Overnight it wasn't emptying, not even close. She also went from being puffed up and lethargic to 10 x's worse. I freaked, of course... lol I monitored her 24/7 lots of crop massages, olive oil and yogurt. I was so sure she was gonna die cause she never seemed to be improving just seemed to get more and more lethargic and pitiful. Then a few days later the breeder I got her from suggested this so I put one of my sweetest silkies in there with her and her condition improved within 24 hours. Idk! I'm just glad she's better now, she's still a loud complainer and hates when you go to pick her up but once you're holding her she is the sweetest thing, loves to snuggle

Really though if the little one had lice pretty bad I'm sure that would take a lot out of her you're probably at a point where all you can do is supportive care and hope for the best. Keep checking for lice/mites, be proactive, best wishes

So here is Tina Turner, because she has great legs. But she's starting to look like she needs to be called Ike. I got it in the middle of doing another crazy head twitching thing that makes me thing it is having a seizure.

Here is Butterscotch. You can see her eyes is just puffy and shut.

But, here is the two of them being normal and taking a dirt bath and being fairly cute.

 

[Teresaann24]

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Another random guess but are they eating and drinking normal? Crops ok? My Little Peepers was pitiful when she showed up all droopy and puffed up then her crop started to not empty it was touch and go with her for awhile... She was wormed had a treatment of sulmet and got electrolytes/vitamins added to her water for a few days until I noticed she was drinking less water with the electrolytes in it, guess the taste bothered her.
About two days into her isolation I noticed her crop was bigger than her head and rock hard. Overnight it wasn't emptying, not even close. She also went from being puffed up and lethargic to 10 x's worse. I freaked, of course... lol I monitored her 24/7 lots of crop massages, olive oil and yogurt. I was so sure she was gonna die cause she never seemed to be improving just seemed to get more and more lethargic and pitiful. Then a few days later the breeder I got her from suggested this so I put one of my sweetest silkies in there with her and her condition improved within 24 hours. Idk! I'm just glad she's better now, she's still a loud complainer and hates when you go to pick her up but once you're holding her she is the sweetest thing, loves to snuggle

Really though if the little one had lice pretty bad I'm sure that would take a lot out of her you're probably at a point where all you can do is supportive care and hope for the best. Keep checking for lice/mites, be proactive, best wishes

So here is Tina Turner, because she has great legs. But she's starting to look like she needs to be called Ike. I got it in the middle of doing another crazy head twitching thing that makes me thing it is having a seizure.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/75040_tina_turner.jpg



Here is Butterscotch. You can see her eyes is just puffy and shut.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/75040_butterscotch.jpg

But, here is the two of them being normal and taking a dirt bath and being fairly cute.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/75040_silkie_dirt_bath.jpg

Very pretty!