That's a bummer! Now your post number has to start again...I'm going to have to get used to the name and realize it's you.
yupI recently acquired this young Silkie trio...I got them mainly because I just fell in love with their coloring. The seller called them grays. This is my first time with any color besides blue, black, splash...
So, I thought maybe I'd ask the experts...are these, indeed, grays?
Wow! So glad it's ok, thanks for sharing.Just wanted to post a picture of the only 2 silkies from my flock that hatched( out of 12). The left one is a white and I'm pretty sure the right one is a splash. I ended up helping the white one hatch. The splash was with a broody silkie, who was a terrible mom.
I went out this morning to open up my chicken coops and was looking for the baby chick. I had figured it had hatched overnight since I last saw it pipping last night. It took a minute but there it was upside down in the shavings, mom had gotten up and went outside. I was very sure it was dead and was telling her she was terrible.When I picked up the baby it was half warmish and half cold.
I put the baby down and finished doing a couple other things. I came inside when I was finished, about 10 to 15 minutes later. I put the baby down thinking that I would put it with the other chick that passed away last month, in a baggie in a freezer. I just happened to look down and it looked like it was gasping for air!
So I cleaned out it's little mouth since there was a small piece of shaving in there. I tried to give it water and vitamins and I rubbed it and stuck it under a heat lamp. I kept rubbing and rubbing it and kept gentley tugging it's legs. I was trying anything I could think of.
I patted it's back and just tried and tried to get it to make a sound.
Finally it peeped! then it's little head kept going under itself, but it was pepping more and more. I figured that it had wry neck or something and I was in for some vitamin therapy for a while. But at this point I just didn't care, I was just happy it was alive.
I put it in a little box, seperate from my other babies, under the heat lamp and left to do the errands I had to do. This took me 45 mintues, but worth every second! To my surprise, when I got home there was this beautiful little splash silkie peeping and standing and looking at me!! I was thrilled!!!
My little dolls!!!
Just think about how I want to breed "reverse paint" silkies (mottled) haha there you go, painted feathers!
I have been thinking about you lately, hoping you are doing ok.I do very much. I am so glad I have a piece of them in these chicks though. Makes all the difference.
Two other people also lost their barns this month and animals inside to fire. It's a very scary reality!
It's a great name!
Bless you for adopting them. We had two retired racing greyhounds as well. What a joy they were.
I didnt know that crows have black meat.. do you know if Ravens do as well ? I have heard that Silkie meat isnt that good tasting. ? Anyone here eat their culls that knows ?
in case you are thinking of eating your silkie and have never seen them naked. crows have black meat too.
I heard about those other barn fires also. I use a drop cord for my incubator and so paranoid about it now. My husband checked it with his multimeter yesterday to make sure it wasn't pulling to much.I do very much. I am so glad I have a piece of them in these chicks though. Makes all the difference.
Two other people also lost their barns this month and animals inside to fire. It's a very scary reality!
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My little boy dive-bombing to scratch under his wing:
Easy Breezy Cockerel Curl !!
Look at his mane flying!
What an ordeal! Real cute peeps!!Just wanted to post a picture of the only 2 silkies from my flock that hatched( out of 12). The left one is a white and I'm pretty sure the right one is a splash. I ended up helping the white one hatch. The splash was with a broody silkie, who was a terrible mom.
I went out this morning to open up my chicken coops and was looking for the baby chick. I had figured it had hatched overnight since I last saw it pipping last night. It took a minute but there it was upside down in the shavings, mom had gotten up and went outside. I was very sure it was dead and was telling her she was terrible.When I picked up the baby it was half warmish and half cold.
I put the baby down and finished doing a couple other things. I came inside when I was finished, about 10 to 15 minutes later. I put the baby down thinking that I would put it with the other chick that passed away last month, in a baggie in a freezer. I just happened to look down and it looked like it was gasping for air!
So I cleaned out it's little mouth since there was a small piece of shaving in there. I tried to give it water and vitamins and I rubbed it and stuck it under a heat lamp. I kept rubbing and rubbing it and kept gentley tugging it's legs. I was trying anything I could think of.
I patted it's back and just tried and tried to get it to make a sound.
Finally it peeped! then it's little head kept going under itself, but it was pepping more and more. I figured that it had wry neck or something and I was in for some vitamin therapy for a while. But at this point I just didn't care, I was just happy it was alive.
I put it in a little box, seperate from my other babies, under the heat lamp and left to do the errands I had to do. This took me 45 mintues, but worth every second! To my surprise, when I got home there was this beautiful little splash silkie peeping and standing and looking at me!! I was thrilled!!!
Yes, gray. Love that last one.I recently acquired this young Silkie trio...I got them mainly because I just fell in love with their coloring. The seller called them grays. This is my first time with any color besides blue, black, splash...
So, I thought maybe I'd ask the experts...are these, indeed, grays?
