Silkie thread!

[BuckNBark Farm]

Silkie peeps: look what I found on eBay!! Lots of colors and sizes. I can't comment on the service, cuz I haven't gotten it yet! Whoot!

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

Silkie peeps: look what I found on eBay!! Lots of colors and sizes. I can't comment on the service, cuz I haven't gotten it yet! Whoot!

about $17.00 including shipping

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

Silkie peeps: look what I found on eBay!! Lots of colors and sizes. I can't comment on the service, cuz I haven't gotten it yet! Whoot!

I love it!

 

[Sanna]

Aww, poor girl -hungry, scared, tired. Post some more pictures of her as she settles into her new home. I bet she blossoms and looks better and better in the next photos you take of her. NICE guy! they'll be perfect for each other. Bet you can't wait for fertile eggs from these two. I have a splash boy and a blue girl also. Interesting thing is their babies from a test hatch ended up 1 splash and 3 possible blue partridges........genetics.........ugh!

Yes, I'm very excited for spring and fertile eggs!

It'll be interesting to see what colors I'll end up with. I have no idea on the genetics of the hen. The cockerel, I can ask the breeder. But I'm pretty sure it's all B/S in his background.

I've experienced the determination of hens that desperately want chicks...I have 3 mixed color oegb. Teeny, teeny girls, way smaller than my silkies. I got rid of all my oegb roos long ago, as I just wanted to keep the hens as broodies, not breed them. Back before I got my silkies or wyandottes, I had a mixed flock of LF layers. The only roosters I owned were a white leghorn, a RIR, and a WCB polish, all huge LF boys. When cleaning out a brushy area next to the coops, I came across a little oegb hen, on 6 bantam eggs. I was a little amused, and thought, those won't be fertile girl, just give up. But I thought I would candle, just for the heck of it. EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS FERTILE. And they hatched, and grew into medium sized birds, smaller than LF, but much bigger than their mother. I have one left as a broody. I assume the leghorn was the father, because of her flopped over comb. I have no idea where her almost crele barring/lacing came from.


Get this, she is brooding her own eggs here, top. And she mated with the HUGE SLW we have (she's about 4 lbs, he's about 12), and successfully hatched chicks from him. Like mother, like daughter

This is her mother. You can see how tiny she is compared to the silkie chicks. This tiny girl mated with a LF leghorn.

That's a great story.

And I love those pictures! Especially this last one. Priceless.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is very exciting! I think I'll start saving them. But, it is still really cold outside. maybe that isn't a good idea? IDK!

I read a thread on here about hatching out fertile trader joes eggs... whicfh means, they must last quite a while before they go bad?

I was told you can almost go up to 2 weeks with the eggs, but you're better of putting them in an incubator/under a hen at 7 days.

I had silkie eggs in my fridge for almost 2 months, not stored the correct direction, or turned and I had over 50% hatch rate. I'd say that's pretty good.

What IS the correct direction to store the eggs?

She looks really cute but as other mentioned she is probably scared. Give her a few days to settle down. What does you make you think she has scaley leg mites?

She has the yellowish crusties on her feet. I'm going to wash her feet today and see what's really there because she had some really dirty feet when I picked her up. I didn't want to stress her out any more last night by washing her feet. Hopefully it's just some crusted dirt, but either way, doesn't matter. If it's scaley leg mites, it's easy to take care of.

Very nice

I love splash!

Me too. I'm starting to think that the splash is my favorite color of all silkie colors. I still haven't had a porcelain or a lavender...but someday!

 

[Sanna]

Guys, help me out here!
I have a black pullet that's been sneezing for the last week and a half. She has a runny 'nose'. I started her on Aureomycin. That has always worked in the past when we had a chicken with the sniffles. Well, didn't work for this girl. Boss told me to give her Amoxicillin. I've been doing that for the last 3 days. I've split 125mg pills in half, given her half a pill twice a day. No change. Is this not the right kind of medicine to cure the cold she has? Or maybe she's not getting enough of it? Or maybe it's not just a cold? Other than the sneezing and runny nostrils, she's in good shape. Eats REALLY well and is very energetic.
Oh! When her sniffling first started, her right eye would get crusted shut over night. I cleaned it gently with warm water to open her eye. During the day, she was fine. When evening came, these little bubbles would come out of the eye and I'm guessing that's what caused the crusts. She still occasionally has some bubbles in her eye but no crusts.
I posted this on the diseases forum, but got absolutely no help there...
What do I need to give my pullet to cure her cold? Or is it a cold..?

 

[peepblessed]

Haha, since you asked so nicely!! They are soooo cute. We have more due to hatch in the next week or so too! There are a few other breeds mixed in with the Silkies but mostly, they are all Silkies!

Oh my!! You are blessed!

just got 2 young silkies at the north east poultry congress today in mass. They are unsexed i will have to post pictures later of them and maybe someone can help me out with the sex. It wouldn't matter if they are roosters though they are going to be loved the same!

Another silkie addict in the making!!

My Macho had quite a close call today. They were out freeranging, and a LF EE hen wandered up near them. Of course, Macho ran after her, all three pounds of him, to mate her, but she didn't take too kindly to that and turned around and thrashed him. She must have hit his head, because after the first hit, he collapsed to the ground instantly and didn't get up or move. I thought for an awful moment he was dead, just like my silkie/polish. I picked him up, and he was still breathing and blinking, but acting very dazed, not wanting to stand, and shaking. I put him in the dogloo to get his bearings, and he sat in there with his head down in the shavings for about an hour before slowly standing up and rejoining the flock. Now he's out and about, his usual self, popping his wings, crowing, chest thrust out. I'm thinking he maybe got a concussion. I hope it's not anything serious like a hematoma. I hope this teaches him to choose his women more wisely

Shortly after his accident

Very scary!!! I sure hope he is okay....

So, this is what I came home with from the Congress....and I took terrible pictures for a change. lol
I'm still not a 100% sure if this was the right hen for my cockerel, but I'm going to give it a shot. First time breeding! lol
Her wings aren't great but the cockerel has really nice wings. And, her feet are better than his, which to me was important.
Her cushion is much better than it seems. She wasn't too happy about having to pose for pictures after the car ride. She sort of froze in one place..

At least to my amateur eye, she has pretty good overall type. Apparently that's one of the most important things you should look for in a breeding bird?

I'm hoping I'll have the right genetics when I breed her to my cockerel in the spring. Can't wait!!

Almost looks like this lady has some scaley leg mites starting, I'll have to take care of that.

She looks quite nice. I hope it's a good pairing!

I cracked open that egg... is it fertile? If so, it would be my first fertile egg ever LOL


I have a question, how does it work when you have 2 roosters? if they both mate with the hen,is it luck of the draw in who's DNA makes it to the egg, so if I hatched out 5 eggs from the same hen, would some be one mix and some the other? Or, would they all be one thing or what is the percentage like?

I'm pretty sure it's fertile after enlarging the photo.

My silkies have finally laid their first egg at 8 months old!!

The yellow are crossbreeds - New Hampshire daddy and SLW mommy. We also had Black Copper Marans and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes hatching with them... I was afraid the Silkies would get squished!



One of our new partridge cuties and a two week old blue! She is the smallest two week old I have seen - so much smaller than the rest hatched at the same time.

Partridge cuteness tops them all!

I had silkie eggs in my fridge for almost 2 months, not stored the correct direction, or turned and I had over 50% hatch rate. I'd say that's pretty good.

Wow!!

 

[Sanna]

She looks quite nice. I hope it's a good pairing!

Thank you. I hope so too!

 

[heirloomorps]

Me too. I'm starting to think that the splash is my favorite color of all silkie colors. I still haven't had a porcelain or a lavender...but someday!

I really love my splashes. We have a dark blue splash rooster who is just gorgeous.

Partridge cuteness tops them all!

I love the partridges when they are chicks! They are adorable.

 

[littlecritters]

I am way behind in reading posts and have some catching up to do. I thought you might like to see these tshirts I bought for my daughter. I really love the colors. The teal is a green/blue that did not show accurately in the photo. These shirts are available from Lisa at [email protected]. Check with Lisa for current pricing and tell her I sent you. I don't get anything but just want her to know how much I like these shirts. Tina G.

 

[sheeshshe]

ohhhh, so guess what? I remembered that my friend has an incubator... why do I want chicks in the house again? I hate chicks in the house! I decided that I'd give the first set of chicks to my friend who has the incubator, I need to test to see how they're going to turn out before my son sells any to people