Silkie thread!

[Sylvester017]

have you checked the public bone spacing?

Public bone?

 

[subhanalah]

Public bone?

have you checked the public pelvic bone spacing?

 

[Sylvester017]

But you do have valbazen and safeguard . Both of which cover all chicken worms.

Just saw this post after I posted the questions about wormers to you. I will be checking out the feed store for the brands carried and ultimately ask the vet for input. You are so helpful - thank you!

 

[Fancychooklady]

Fancychooklady - are all these wormers given straight into the bird's mouth or mixed with feed or water?  I know you aren't a fan of Ivermectin which is applied to the under-wing skin.  I happen to like the easy method of Ivermectin but am looking for something to rotate since I understand there can be an immunity developed from using the same brand wormer for too long?

You mentioned the goat wormer - also oral for chickens?  You probably have a wonderful link for all these questions LOL!  Thank you in advance.

Yes they are oral, and with 50 chickens that can be very time consuming. The problem with mixing safeguard in water is that it sinks to the bottom. With water worming you have no way of ensuring that each bird is getting the required dose.
I am using avitrolplus as the rotational next time around. I also give garlic water every 6 months.
I would prefer to use valbazen but so far I've only been able to find it in a 5 litre container. Safeguard is also very ' safe ' . I've read a few articles on here about people overdosing with ivermectin .

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/401475/worming-with-valbazen

 

[luvnmypeeps]

Thanks for sharing! Yes, I have them as pets and for eggs. I just love the silkie breed and wanted to add it to my flock. The person I bought them from told me the colors she thought they were, but as they were getting more feathers, I started to wonder. So, I'm happy with whatever I have; just having a blast watching them and holding my little puff balls! Thanks everyone for helping me figure out the colors. I'll try to post photos when they are all done growing so we can see what they become!

 

[TOOCLOSE]

So many adorable babies being hatched and such huggable, kissable Silkies too! I miss the hatching of babies and the whole baby raising thing too. Of course a Silkies' Hen's goal in life is to set and raise babies! LOL I learned early on to buy ceramic eggs for them to set on. I kept all my mommas separate while they were setting and raising their babies. They started off in a carrier and then progressed to an outside pen. I had several small pens made out of 2x4's with small holed fence around it. And of course one side was made to open up. Inside the pen I had a small carrier filled with hay for the momma to call her babies into at night to settle down for sleeping. By having these small pens I could also move them around the yard.

I kept a fan blowing on them during the hot days/nights and a chill chaser bulb in the pen during the cold days. I wrapped heavy duty plastic around the entire pen during the cold days. Mommas get so stressed out when there are other hens/roosters in the area. The babies can be killed while momma is trying to protect them or herself. I made sure each momma had her own space to enjoy raising her babies w/o any worries.

All you folks with new babies! Give them a kiss for me! My VAH doctor said my relationship with our chickens - just wasn't right! LOL I told her those babies needed sugaring from time to time! I taught my nephew they were "pooping - peeping - darlings"!

I only have two silkie hens and one silkie rooster in the silkie family now. They get lots of kisses and pampering! I used to be overrun in Silkies around here. We have our own chicken graveyard with wooden crosses and their names on them.

TC

 

[TOOCLOSE]

I found this info back in 2011 off the internet! For those that haven't seen it? I'm sharing it with y'all!

The Silkie has a very long history. They where first seen in China by Marco Polo on his expeditions there. The Chinese used them to hatch pheasant eggs and to raise chicks of other types of poultry. Silkies are one of the oldest breeds known; even though they are very different from the ones Marco Polo saw in China. Our Silkies now have bigger crests, leg feathering, and they now come in different colors other than white. The colors recognized by the APA (American Poultry Association) and the ABA (American Bantam Association) are white, partridge, gray, splash, black, blue, and buff. They also come in bearded and non-bearded types. Silkies are shown in the feather legged class in shows.

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Silkies are good setters. They go broody whether there is an egg to sit on or not. That is the reason the Chinese chose them to raise chicks. It is a terrible thing to happen to your show birds because you cannot stop them from being broody. But a good point about it is that if you have them hatch some eggs of a flighty and unfriendly bird the babies tend to be nicer when they grow up.
Silkies are unusual because they have a fifth toe that most other breeds do not have, but some poultry in the continental class also have the extra toe feature. Silkies also have black skin and black bones. The Chinese think that ground up bones have special healing powers and other sorts of powers. But I would never eat some ground up Silkie bones.
Silkies have walnut combs that are black to deep mulberry in color and the comb is almost circular in shape on the males while on the females the combs are very small and well formed. Their beaks are leaden blue, short, and stout while the face is smooth and fine. They should be broad and well rounded in the breast and body. One problem many Silkies seem to have is with their wing, the wing sticks out at the bottom when folded up. Another wing problem that seems common is the not so full wing on Silkies. They should have a nice full wing with as few gaps in it as possible.

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A thing that many people over look is eye color. I never really thought about it until this year. They should have dark dark brown to black in eye color. But, black is what I prefer. Silkies should also be able to see. Some times their crest grows so big that they cannot see. When this happens I pluck some feathers in front of their eye, toward the beak. Some people like to cut the feathers more, but I pluck them because it looks natural. A Silkie's crest should be round and full, but not too full so the crest gets too big.

 

[subhanalah]

I found this info back in 2011 off the internet! For those that haven't seen it? I'm sharing it with y'all!

The Silkie has a very long history. They where first seen in China by Marco Polo on his expeditions there. The Chinese used them to hatch pheasant eggs and to raise chicks of other types of poultry. Silkies are one of the oldest breeds known; even though they are very different from the ones Marco Polo saw in China. Our Silkies now have bigger crests, leg feathering, and they now come in different colors other than white. The colors recognized by the APA (American Poultry Association) and the ABA (American Bantam Association) are white, partridge, gray, splash, black, blue, and buff. They also come in bearded and non-bearded types. Silkies are shown in the feather legged class in shows.
[FLOAT=LEFT][/FLOAT]Silkies are good setters. They go broody whether there is an egg to sit on or not. That is the reason the Chinese chose them to raise chicks. It is a terrible thing to happen to your show birds because you cannot stop them from being broody. But a good point about it is that if you have them hatch some eggs of a flighty and unfriendly bird the babies tend to be nicer when they grow up.

Silkies are unusual because they have a fifth toe that most other breeds do not have, but some poultry in the continental class also have the extra toe feature. Silkies also have black skin and black bones. The Chinese think that ground up bones have special healing powers and other sorts of powers. But I would never eat some ground up Silkie bones.

Silkies have walnut combs that are black to deep mulberry in color and the comb is almost circular in shape on the males while on the females the combs are very small and well formed. Their beaks are leaden blue, short, and stout while the face is smooth and fine. They should be broad and well rounded in the breast and body. One problem many Silkies seem to have is with their wing, the wing sticks out at the bottom when folded up. Another wing problem that seems common is the not so full wing on Silkies. They should have a nice full wing with as few gaps in it as possible.
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A thing that many people over look is eye color. I never really thought about it until this year. They should have dark dark brown to black in eye color. But, black is what I prefer. Silkies should also be able to see. Some times their crest grows so big that they cannot see. When this happens I pluck some feathers in front of their eye, toward the beak. Some people like to cut the feathers more, but I pluck them because it looks natural. A Silkie's crest should be round and full, but not too full so the crest gets too big.


 

Marco Polo was not an actual historical figure. But it does show that silkies were known of during the time period in which Marco Polo was written about.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Just saw this post after I posted the questions about wormers to you.  I will be checking out the feed store for the brands carried and ultimately ask the vet for input.  You are so helpful - thank you!

My pleasure. Worms are silent killers and it never ceases to amaze me how many people don't worm their chickens. When it comes to chemicals I'm always wary. A lot of Aussies use baytril and that is banned in the states. When a hen hatches she already retains all of the ovum or eggs that she will lay in her lifetime, so it stands to reason that residue from ' any ' chemical used by the keeper , may find its way into your food chain.

http://poultrykeeper.com/general-chickens/worming-chickens

 

[rnchick74]

OK, it is a FEMALE. It squatted for me when I went to pick it up. talk about a late bloomer! LOL now I have no roosters, darn it!


actually, I have a younger one that I don't know the gender of either, but I'm pretty sure that one is a female too. apparently I only hatch out females. hmmmmm.

If you only hatch females...can I get my silkie from you??!!