Silkie thread!

[kimmerjo]

Thanks. So can you help me with my plan of attack against the mites..I'm going to give each silkie a bath ?with ?? Dawn or dog shampoo? Then let them dry off in the house. Clean out the coop even tho they have been in there for less than 24 hours. Then give them a dust bath area with woodash ?

 

[SilkieMom8875]

Partridge ???

 

[kimmerjo]

 

[chickee]

Partridge ???

I don't know since I'm new to Silkies, but I sure LOVE its color!! It will be fun to see what color it ends up!

 

[jajeanpierre]

oh NO!! yes that would definitely backfire. Ok I'll catch a baby hawk and raise it to protect my flock against its family. Ha!

Encourage crows--crows will drive off hawks. They'll also take small chicks, but you can deal with that. I have a friend out in the bush of Washington State. She has every predator there is in North America I think, everything from bears and big cats to owls and Coopers hawks. She uses a couple of Great Pyrenees livestock guard dogs and a flock of crows. I think she even feeds the crows.

 

[Suzierd]

This is my little " ginger "

Fancychooklady I just love your beard less Silkies! Great pics!

 

[Suzierd]

And this is my Lover Paris! I got him at 3 days old and when that top hat came I just new it had to belong to someone special like "Paris Hilton" Well, I was right in that it was special and that, that hat was special too! I live in NH and I'm looking for some breeders of Silkies for my Babies This is Dano, My Silkie Roo Him again! This is Mitzi (Gaynor) my hen Mitzi(L) Dano (R) Dano in front and Mitzi in back

Paris is such a handsome guy love his heart shape.

 

[TiaRC]

I had seen in an earlier post about silkies sometimes like to sleep in a pile. Whom ever that was. Thank you. I currently have 4 adult silkies 3 hens and a roo, and 3 silkie biddies. All of them sleep in a massive mount. For the longest time I thought my silkies had brain damage lol.

 

[Mrsfoote]

so lets say I were to get into silkies again....who would be a good person to go through.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Thanks. So can you help me with my plan of attack against the mites..I'm going to give each silkie a bath ?with ?? Dawn or dog shampoo? Then let them dry off in the house. Clean out the coop even tho they have been in there for less than 24 hours. Then give them a dust bath area with woodash ?

Sounds like a good plan to me.

I used flea shampoo on my newcomers, I am allergic to Dawn (sneezing attacks). If you have a hair drier or a forced air heater it would be better - towel dry them first to get rid of most of the water and blow their feathers dry - they don't want to be wet for too long.

The dust bath area with wood ash is what I always have for my birds, and some will use it and some will not - unless another bird shows them.