Silkie thread!

[CrazyChookLady5]

Paint is white with black spots, splash is blue with darker blue spots/streaks and partridge have a gold breast and neck feathers and the back half is blue or a "dingy" looking black. Some have more gold than others. It's easier to see a pic than describe it.

The above pic is a splash roo

These are paints. Not good quality but I'm working on that

Avobe is a partridge frizzled silkie pullet

thanks for the help!

 

[702marine]

I would love to get my hands on a young Silkie. Anyone in my local area of las vegas or someone that isnt to much further please contact me if you have any availability. Thank you...

 

[chick rookie]

I use a zoom lense. I sit with my coffee and let them go about their business . Their accustomed to me laying on the ground , with the black shinny thingo too.

I guess it would make a differance if I had a good camera... just got a pocket dit. camera but it works... sometimes I do get some good ones.

 

[Brunsy26]

I don't put roos together at all. When they are young they seem to get along till any girls in the juvie pen get old enough for breeding. I have had pullets get broken backs because the boys would take turns with the girls till they broke them. When I see the boys are getting frisky they are removed and separated and I just leave 1 boy in with the girls till they start to lay. Then I put them in the pen they are to go in. I also quarantine birds I get from somebody else. While they are in quarantine I go ahead and treat them for worms. After quarantine they get baths to remove any bugs they may have before they go in the pen I got them for.

where do I get stuff to treat for worms? I know there's an avian animal hospital by me but no "chicken vet"

 

[CrazyChookLady5]

I use a zoom lense. I sit with my coffee and let them go about their business . Their accustomed to me laying on the ground , with the black shinny thingo too.

What camera do you have? I've got a Canon SLR 60D, its really good, though I think I need a different lens to improve the results with my pictures!

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have a canon EOS 1000D with zoom lens.

And some simply beautiful subjects.

 

[Dknichelson]

Does anyone have any good tricks to getting silkies to nest in new nesting boxes? Ours have always nested on the ground, but in Florida we get so much rain and the ground can flood. So, when we renovated the coop, we added these laundry basket nesting boxes. We decided on them because theyre big, and our silkies all like to cuddle, and the opening is low to the ground, but elevated enough to keep water out. The problem is, our silkies want nothing to do with them! We've put them in the boxes, moved them after dark, nothing works.

 

[CarsonOrps]

Does anyone have any good tricks to getting silkies to nest in new nesting boxes? Ours have always nested on the ground, but in Florida we get so much rain and the ground can flood. So, when we renovated the coop, we added these laundry basket nesting boxes. We decided on them because theyre big, and our silkies all like to cuddle, and the opening is low to the ground, but elevated enough to keep water out. The problem is, our silkies want nothing to do with them! We've put them in the boxes, moved them after dark, nothing works.

Put fake eggs on there or golf balls so they think someone is laying in the new nest!

 

[Dknichelson]

Put fake eggs on there or golf balls so they think someone is laying in the new nest!

Oh, duh! LOL! I don't know why I didn't think of that, since we used a fake egg to encourage our first girl to start laying. Thanks for the reminder! Now, to find the fake egg....

 

[CarsonOrps]

Oh, duh! LOL! I don't know why I didn't think of that, since we used a fake egg to encourage our first girl to start laying. Thanks for the reminder! Now, to find the fake egg....

Lol your welcome I'm thinkin about order some may be 6-8