Silkie thread!

[KMHunter]

Quote: Yeah, actually I am looking on CL to find the plastic dog houses to use as coops for my silkies so I can wash and disinfect easily as needed. I have those excercise pens that you can fold up and I stretch them accross my run to segment it when needed. It works great when I am integrating new ones into the flock, but you could do it permanently. In my Silkie pen I am going to get that black plastic hardware cloth looking stuff and split my pen in half with two igloo style dog houses for coops. You could do a lot of different things to create a safe place for them without too mush hassle.

 

[cindersga]

I don't know my husband told me about it. I would do a search on the site for entries for the 2013 calender. Sorry not much help

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/701435/your-chicken-pictures-needed-for-the-byc-2013-calendar

FOUND IT!

 

[mama2my4]

Can you divide your coop to keep the silkies separate and safe? You could use anything from inexpensive bird netting sold in the garden department at Home Depot ($10), to vinyl lattice (with the small holes $30), to a piece of cardboard (free at Uhaul). You could also find a dog crate or dog kennel at a yardsale or on Caigslist to use as a temporary coop.

We just did this today. Silkies in one side and cochins and ameraucana in the other. Eventually The silkies will move in to a new coop and my SL cochins will go in that side of the coop.

 

[littlecritters]

Hey all, I was wondering if any of you are going to the Sussex county Poultry show in NJ in October... I was hoping to get a few more silkies or even chicks at the show and you all have such beautiful birds Thanks!!

You may want to check with Stoopid, here on BYC. She may be attending.

 

[NuAgePaulBunyun]

This is our 2 year old Silkie. Say hello to Snook-ster, our little girl.



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[NuAgePaulBunyun]

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[littlecritters]

I couldn't help myself, I went and got 3 Cochin hens today!  A partridge, splash and a blue. They're all about a year old.

There they are with our silkies.


This one I named Lucille because of her red "hair". She's my favorite. lol


Lucille meeting Joe. Those turkies next door were very scary. 


I think this one was called Kayla, so I'll keep the name. Molting badly. I don't know if she's any kind of a quality bird, probably not. I'll haveto go and read more about Cochins. But she's cute! haha


And the blue hen, Juliette, I didn't get good pictures of her. This makes her look hideous. Not sure what kind of quality this one is, hoping she'll turn out nice when she's done moulting.


Sorry about the non-silkie pictures but couldn't help but share this with all you chicken enthusiasts!  Now I need to go find the Cochin thread. 

It's not too late to quarantine them. It's better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Kaybug137]

Can you divide your coop to keep the silkies separate and safe? You could use anything from inexpensive bird netting sold in the garden department at Home Depot ($10), to vinyl lattice (with the small holes $30), to a piece of cardboard (free at Uhaul). You could also find a dog crate or dog kennel at a yardsale or on Caigslist to use as a temporary coop.

I've got no money : ( But I'll look on cragislist for free stuff, Right now I got the little guys in side in a smallish box, Don't roosters when they are small about 3 -4 weeks have a certain shape to them? I have RIR rooster too, I was hoping I could get the chickens to bond to the chicks in 30 days cause I heard about the Quarantine thing ffor 30 days. I will figure out how to fix the coop too, since the tornado the back wall got pushed from the ceiling nothing can get in but yeah.

 

[debchick]

I just got Sophia today can anyone tell me what color she is. Thanks in advance


she likes sitting in her bowl for some reason

 

[SunnySkies]

It does sound like maybe this roo's behavior isn't all that unusual, and I warned the boys that if he keeps pecking or acts aggressive, he is gone. I told them we can't have a mean bird. It's a safety thing. I remember being afraid to walk in the yard as a kid because the rooster was so mean. That isn't going to happen here. It could simply have been I startled him or he didn't see me all that well and simply reacted, but.....I have my eye on him now.

Watching another rooster too, a bantam Cochin. He pecked one of the Silkies, one I suspect is a pullet, so hard she is limping. I have her separated out in a hospital cage for some treatments. He keeps that up, and he will find himself as a Cornish Game Hen dinner. I'm sure for him it's hormones right now and he might outgrow it, but I'm not waiting around for everyone else, especially the Silkies, to get hurt first.