Silkie thread!

[aoxa]

What a picture!

Isn't he a stud!

He fights off crows! He's one handsome fella!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

I'm going to try the ff too. Does it matter what kind of container you use? I have a stainless steel container i would like to use. Would that be ok?

Do not use any metal container with FF. The ACV will leach out heavy metals and poison your flock

 

[peepblessed]

Is it normal if Nori has covered her eggs? she covered them with sand/hay. I have heard hens will cover the eggs while they are away, but she is in a cage =P She isn't broody yet, but i'm hoping she will be soon.

I have heard of this, but none of mine do it.

As you wish!

It just so happened to be a sunny morning here. Beautiful enough to bring out my three month old juvies onto grass. I hatched these four from Sheryl Butler eggs. I've posted quite a few baby chick pic's but these are their first pictures where I can see some quality appearing.

The guy in the middle is Mr. Big Foot. My two year old Grandson named these chicks. I so love them and him.

The typey little one in the foreground is Miss Peggy. She is coming along very well. They look pretty good to me for three months old.

I don't have any good pictures of my breeding trio together yet or my Grey roo. I'll get on it.

All so lovely!!

That Silkie is GORGEOUS!

Thank you! I love her!

how old are they until the males are fertile and do the hanky panky?

Mine have been as young as 5 months and as old as 10 mo.

wow! I could'nt have said it better myself.GORGEOUS!

Thank you, also!

HELP!
I sent two of my girls for a necropsy in hopes of finding out what was wrong with them and to be sure it wasn't some infectious disease that was going to spread through my flock...and worst case...through the whole farm! That would have been a disaster because we are a large non-profit farm..

Good news, they do not have avian influenza or pullorum. Bad news is, I have no idea what most of this report says. lol

This was the final comment and in language that I could understand. lol

Preliminary Comment: There were no gross diagnostic findings in any of the chickens. Histopathology and culture are pending.
Final comment: There were no microscopic findings that could explain the cause of the clinical signs observed in these chickens. No evidence of any inflammatory, infectious or neoplastic disease process was observed. The hyperplasia of the respiratory associated lymphoid tissue is indicative of a persistent antigenic stimulation; however this is non-specific and it can occur with a variety of causes or insults. In one chicken, there were several nematode parasites in the lumen of the intestine. The bacteria isolated from the nasal cavity of both birds are considered either as environmental contamination or normal flora.

If someone wants to take a look at the full report out of curiosity and help me understand what it says, here it is:
http://www.sanna-c.com/Tootie&Bandit.pdf


So, luckily there was nothing contagious and I can take a chill pill now.

I was starting to freak out over the black hen that had a puffy head. She's the one that had the parasites.
I will treat my flock for parasites, for sure. Once we get a warm(ish) day, I'll take and empty the whole coop clean it up and spray it with Oxine just for the heck of it.

Any suggestions for a good product to kill parasites? I treated them a while back with the safe-guard paste for horses which was recommended by someone here on the forum. If there's something that's better, I'm all for it!

I sure hope you can figure it out!

How does everyone keep their silkies so clean?!? Things are starting to melt here so it's muddy but what about the coop? I have shavings and they all look awful!

Mine would love to play in the mud but I don't let them. I'm sure yours are happier.

He/she/it was bought as a "probable roo" from Bobbi Porto at Newnan at 3.5 months. Every day, "he" looks more like a "she" to us.

Very nice! What are you hoping for? I have had some that took 6 months to tell.

I guess I'm going to have to try this product someday to see how it really works....or if it works? I keep reading peoples comments, some say they had good results...and others say DE didn't really do much.
Who knows.

I use DE as a preventative more than a treatment. I sprinkle it in their dusting spots.

I went out to check my broody with chicks later then usual today bc we had quite a bit of snow come down last night. Her little Silkie chick was strangled to death and the little Cochin now has what appears to be a broken wing

I went and trimmed all of the fluff off her belly after I found the last strangled chick. The Silkie was stuck in her leg feathers and the Cochin was stuck to her butt

I don't think I'll ever use her as a broody again. So discouraging. My other broody Silkie was still preening and keeping herself tidy during the whole ordeal of hatching and such. It doesn't look like Ellie has been doing that. Her feathers are such a mess. She started with 8 and is down to 3. I hope she enjoys this experience, bc it'll never happen again

I'm so sorry you are dealing with this awful situation! I no longer use broodies either and I only lost one chick.

 

[peepblessed]

Isn't he a stud!

He fights off crows! He's one handsome fella!

I wish I could help you sex your babies. I am just so bad at it. I should be getting better but it's just not happening. At six weeks I look them in the eye and write my guess down. We'll see how that works.

 

[aoxa]

I wish I could help you sex your babies. I am just so bad at it. I should be getting better but it's just not happening. At six weeks I look them in the eye and write my guess down. We'll see how that works.

Some times it is much easier than others!

 

[JacqueOCS]

We also have 2 Great Pyrs, a male and female. They are great around our chickens, ducks, horses, cows, donkeys and goats. Our cats love to snuggle w/them.

 

[NOLA Chicks]

Nori is back to laying normally

Just looked because she was nesting and found a perfect little egg under her. Hoping she will collect a few and go broody. Should I just leave it in there for her to collect a clutch of them? Ice is also in there with her, I tried taking her out but Nori got upset her friend was leaving so I had to put her back.

Yay!!!! So glad to hear she's back to her old self. She had us worried!

 

[Suzierd]

quote name="Suzierd" url="/t/297632/silkie-thread/32640#post_10766818"]Here's part one of the FF series if you want more info.
http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/2013/03/benefits-of-fermenting-feed-for.html

Thank you so much for this. I had no idea this even existed until this morning I've read what everyone has written here I appreciate the head start![/QUOTE]
Your welcome

 

[moomoodiddy]

[COLOR=FF0000]HELP![/COLOR]
I sent two of my girls for a necropsy in hopes of finding out what was wrong with them and to be sure it wasn't some infectious disease that was going to spread through my flock...and worst case...through the whole farm! That would have been a disaster because we are a large non-profit farm..
Good news, they do not have avian influenza or pullorum. Bad news is, I have no idea what most of this report says. lol

This was the final comment and in language that I could understand. lol

Preliminary Comment: There were no gross diagnostic findings in any of the chickens. Histopathology and culture are pending.

Final comment: There were no microscopic findings that could explain the cause of the clinical signs observed in these chickens. No evidence of any inflammatory, infectious or neoplastic disease process was observed. The hyperplasia of the respiratory associated lymphoid tissue is indicative of a persistent antigenic stimulation; however this is non-specific and it can occur with a variety of causes or insults. In one chicken, there were several nematode parasites in the lumen of the intestine. The bacteria isolated from the nasal cavity of both birds are considered either as environmental contamination or normal flora.

 
If someone wants to take a look at the full report out of curiosity and help me understand what it says, here it is:
[COLOR=FF0000]http://www.sanna-c.com/Tootie&Bandit.pdf[/COLOR]


So, luckily there was nothing contagious and I can take a chill pill now.  I was starting to freak out over the black hen that had a puffy head. She's the one that had the parasites.
I will treat my flock for parasites, for sure. Once we get a warm(ish) day, I'll take and empty the whole coop clean it up and spray it with Oxine just for the heck of it.

Any suggestions for a good product to kill parasites? I treated them a while back with the safe-guard paste for horses which was recommended by someone here on the forum. If there's something that's better, I'm all for it!

hey sanna! sorry for your birds but i thought id get out my nerdiness and try to translate this for you

there were no overall diagnostics in any of your birds. but they are still waiting on the culture (bactearia growth plate) and histopathology (idk) results.
the final comment is: they found nothing that would have cauzed any of the symptoms that u saw. there were no signs of inflammatory, infection, or neoplastic (idk) diseases. but they did find some active antibodies in the lymphoids tissue but that mosy likely has nothing to do with wjy they ded . in one bird there was parasites in the intestines. and the stuff that was in their noses was eithet cauzed bu environmental contamination or natural flora(organisms)

srry if there was any typos and it was hard to undersyand touch screen is not the best to type things out lol but anyways i hope this helps and good luck!

 

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

This is Sandy. The only silkie that survived out of my chicks. She(He) is about 5 months old and was turning out beautifully. But sadly, I discovered my little beauty has a crooked beak. If you look closely you can see. So sadly, no showing. But I still love my little Sandy. She's (He's) named Sandy because someone gave us chicks because due to Hurricane Sandy, they couldn't keep em.