Silkie thread!

[ChickNmamma]

Everyone here is so nice thank you thank you!

Tomorrow I am going to look at a couple, it will be from the same lady I got my last one from she said she had gray,white, black, and partridge. Ranging from 2 days to a week old. I'm hoping the week olds will look healthy. I'm going to get 2 this time

Does anyone have a week old silkie picture I can use as a reference?
Or a partridge silkie chick picture?

Is there anything I should be specifically looking for behavior and size wise? I'm def not going to pick the smallest one this time around.

The one in the back - that's Goggles, A Partridge Silkie chick.. It both has glasses on - and it looks like it has a pair of goggles above its eyes too. I believe that picture is about a week old.

Pick one that is active - but not jumping on the other chicks. It might hang back a bit when you put your hand down. Doesn't scream really loudly when you pick it up - check for the standard (5 toes (back two well separated), black skin, silkied wing feathers, feathers down the foot and on the outside and middle toe). If you aren't planning on showing them - don't worry about the feathers on the toes - but the rest should be there.

Hope you find some great keepers.. Silkies are great birds!

 

[ChickNmamma]

I have some bad news

. All four of my blue silkies chicks are dead. One drownd while I was gone last week and the other three died today. My hen and her chicks got stuck in a box and she started to freak out I guess and trampled them. Only a silkie/silkie mix and my splash and 2 other chicks made it. I'm so sad right now. All of the blues were boys, too. On the bright side my show silkie that I had bought from a breeder laid her 1st egg for me today. I put it in the incubator to see if it was fertilized. The lady also saved me her best show rooster b/c she sold the rest of her white silkies. So I can have a breeding pair.

I am so sorry to hear that.

I am glad you have some good news today, a first egg and the best show rooster so you can have a breeding pair. Hopefully you can set things up for your broodies so that won't ever happen again and you can hatch more babies.

 

[Shyla-C]

I'm now treating TWO with wry neck. One four-month old that I've been treating for 25 days already. A chick came down with it today at 3 wks. I'm soo frustrated. Treating with Vit B and Selenium. No polyvisol to be found anywhere.

I get my Polyvisol from Amazon.com SO much cheaper. I was having a hard time finding the one with out iron in the stores, and when I did, it was over $11. Here is the link : http://www.amazon.com/Enfamil-Poly-...UTF8&qid=1372221474&sr=8-1&keywords=polyvisol. You can sign up for an amazon prime account $80+/- a year you can have it 3 day shipped for free, and 2 day is only $3.99 per item. You might even be able to get the prime account on a free trial period, get the free shipping and cancel before the trial ends and not pay anything. I use amazon a LOT! Hope your babies get better.

 

[DebraM]

Earthborn Holistic pet food, I am a demo rep on weekends and I always bring one of my furry or feathered friends. The customers adore them! Icelynn my blue pullet is a seasoned pro, This was Snow's first visit and he did an awesome job. First time with the diaper too and he barely fell backwards at all LOL Probablybecause he is so chest heavy!

That is just beautiful!!! Diapers???? I have now seen and heard everything!!! Gorgeous!!
Deb.

 

[DebraM]

I am so sorry to hear that.

I am glad you have some good news today, a first egg and the best show rooster so you can have a breeding pair.  Hopefully you can set things up for your broodies so that won't ever happen again and you can hatch more babies.

So sorry to hear about your babies. I had a terrible accident one day too that was my fault because I had two broody girls sharing one egg and the day before it hatched I put the neediest broody in a new box with the egg away from everyone else. Well it hatched and she rejected it because she had been moved and trampled it o death trying to get outta the new box. Broke my heart that I caused it. Before I started the Silkie mania of breeding I read as much as I could, and most of it was postings on here. I read about newborn chickens having an in-built "drowning" instinct that causes them to literally throw he selves into water. Research has shown it is probably due to them being in a fluid filled sac for so long. After reading this story, I always use a very shallow water bowl and fill it up with river stones so there is only little pockets of water exposed and they can't "fall" in and drown. Just an idea that works well. Good luck with your new egg!!!
Deb.

 

[sweetmsmisty98]

I love the pictures. Such beautiful birds. I soon wiil be incubating silkies. Love them

 

[Sanna]

Snowmiser approved

First day "on the job"!




Sleeping the first day on the job... Tisk Tisk!

Did he sell any pet food?

not too young for hatvbery quality

Got it, thanks. I've never had a Silkie start laying younger than 6 months. 5 and a half months at the youngest, I think. lol Most of them wait even longer.

 

[Jharper]

So sorry to hear about your babies. I had a terrible accident one day too that was my fault because I had two broody girls sharing one egg and the day before it hatched I put the neediest broody in a new box with the egg away from everyone else. Well it hatched and she rejected it because she had been moved and trampled it o death trying to get outta the new box. Broke my heart that I caused it. Before I started the Silkie mania of breeding I read as much as I could, and most of it was postings on here. I read about newborn chickens having an in-built "drowning" instinct that causes them to literally throw he selves into water. Research has shown it is probably due to them being in a fluid filled sac for so long. After reading this story, I always use a very shallow water bowl and fill it up with river stones so there is only little pockets of water exposed and they can't "fall" in and drown. Just an idea that works well. Good luck with your new egg!!!
Deb.

Thanks! She hasn't been with any rooster since I got her so maybe her egg is fertilized by that rooster I'm getting today.

 

[Orps]

Snowmiser approved

First day "on the job"!




Sleeping the first day on the job... Tisk Tisk!

So what did the people think of a chicken selling dog food?

 

[Jharper]

So what did the people think of a chicken selling dog food?

X2!LOL!