Silkie thread!

[Fancychooklady]

Does anyone know the answer to my question?
[COLOR=333333]Is it true that partridge Silkies are easier to sex sooner then normal?    How?  Why? [/COLOR]

Some people believe that the coloration around the hackle in partridge are a tell tale sign. I can't say that works in my line. I have both sexes with wheat- red on the hackle and shoulder area. I still have to rely on comb size, waddles and ribbons in the crest.

 

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I have a sizzle hen sitting on eggs. She has developed wry neck, She is about 5 years old. I've only seen this in much younger silkies. Usually between a couple weeks and a couple of months old. I've been giving her a multi vitamin I got from the vet. Her eggs are due to hatch today. I was wondering if I should put the eggs in a hatcher to prevent the chicks from getting hurt if she ends up rolling over on them.

Start giving her Vitamin E! Get the capsules or liquid. I prefer the capsules. It's easier for me to pock it in their mouths than deal with the liquid. If you do the liquid? Be sure to put the syringe/eye dropper in the right side of her mouth. I kneel on my knees, place the chicken between them, squeeze just enough to keep them from escaping, lock your feet together to keep them from slipping out backwards and open their mouth. Insert the syringe/eye dropper towards the back of their mouth and disperse!

Cod Liver Oil is also a wonderful thing to give our chickens when they are sick! It helps them with their immune system. I take one capsule twice aday and haven't been sick in years! I learned about CLO by reading a chicken book when one of my hens got sick!

My Vet suggested I feed the chickens "medicated chick starter" at all times. It helps to prevent the sour crop problem.

If you have light colored chickens? Feeding them corn will also turn their feathers yellow!

I'm the one with the RIR ear problem. I've been thru the wringer myself trying to figure out poor Dorothy's problem until her eardrum burst. Then I knew it wasn't crook/wry neck.

Best wishes to ya!

TC

 

[subhanalah]

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My Vet suggested I feed the chickens "medicated chick starter" at all times. It helps to prevent the sour crop problem.

If you have light colored chickens? Feeding them corn will also turn their feathers yellow!

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Your vet is sadly very misinformed. Medicated chick feed won't do anything for or to prevent sour crop. If anything, it makes the chooks more prone to wry neck (commonly a thiamine deficiency). The medication in most medicated chick feed is a thiamine blocker, which is how it controls coccidia, by preventing it from absorbing thiamine that it needs.

Corn does not turn white chickens yellow. The sun does that.

 

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Your vet is sadly very misinformed. Medicated chick feed won't do anything for or to prevent sour crop. If anything, it makes the chooks more prone to wry neck (commonly a thiamine deficiency). The medication in most medicated chick feed is a thiamine blocker, which is how it controls coccidia, by preventing it from absorbing thiamine that it needs.

Corn does not turn white chickens yellow. The sun does that.

WOW I'll have to let her know this! Thanks! That actually came from two different Vets though! May I ask how you know this so I can pass it on to her?

As for the yellow feathers! A good friend of mine used to show her birds! She had to take them off corn before showing them. That's how I know of the feathers turning yellow!

TC

 

[Fancychooklady]

Start giving her Vitamin E! Get the capsules or liquid. I prefer the capsules. It's easier for me to pock it in their mouths than deal with the liquid. If you do the liquid? Be sure to put the syringe/eye dropper in the right side of her mouth. I kneel on my knees, place the chicken between them, squeeze just enough to keep them from escaping, lock your feet together to keep them from slipping out backwards and open their mouth. Insert the syringe/eye dropper towards the back of their mouth and disperse!

Cod Liver Oil is also a wonderful thing to give our chickens when they are sick! It helps them with their immune system. I take one capsule twice aday and haven't been sick in years! I learned about CLO by reading a chicken book when one of my hens got sick!

My Vet suggested I feed the chickens "medicated chick starter" at all times. It helps to prevent the sour crop problem.

If you have light colored chickens? Feeding them corn will also turn their feathers yellow!

I'm the one with the RIR ear problem. I've been thru the wringer myself trying to figure out poor Dorothy's problem until her eardrum burst. Then I knew it wasn't crook/wry neck.

Best wishes to ya!

TC

I think that your vet may have meant ' crumble ' not medicated feed. I give mine sardines in olive oil.
Thiamine is more likely to be the deficiency when muscles are involved.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/216/vitamin-bi-deficiency

 

[subhanalah]

WOW I'll have to let her know this! Thanks! That actually came from two different Vets though! May I ask how you know this so I can pass it on to her?

As for the yellow feathers! A good friend of mine used to show her birds! She had to take them off corn before showing them. That's how I know of the feathers turning yellow!

TC

the only difference between nonmedicated and medicated is the medication included in the medicated starter. If it is amporilum then it has no influence on sour crop.
How do I know this? It's common sense. Medicated feed is to help prevent a coccidiosis outbreak, it has nothing to do with sour crop. Sour crop may happen as a result of the stress of having coccidia, but proper husbandry keeps that in check. I'd rather not starve the growing babies of a vitamin they need to develop just for fear they may or may not become overwhelmed with coccidia. If that were to happen, I would treat with cord in the water for 5 days, not give a low dose of it every day in every speck of their food (which is what medicated feed is here in the US, food with a VERY low dose of corid/amprol in it)

Some medicated feeds have a different medication in them, but I'm not familiar with those medications.

 

[Cynthia12]

hi!! i have had a couple silkie that hatched last night. I have a splash rooster and 2 white hens. these are 2 of the babies, but they all look pretty much the same. i just think they are the sweetest! i have never had bantam chicks before!

I so want to put more silkie eggs in. Will see.

 

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subhan: I wasn't questioning your knowledge in any way! Or your expertise in your knowledge! I was asking you about your knowledge so I could share it!

I'm the last person to know everything there is to know about chicken illnesses and problems. I can only share what's worked for myself and what I've learned/read in other places! My Vet is also open to learning everything she can too. She is a very sweet/nice woman and doesn't take anything for granted. I just love and adore her! She doesn't give up on my chickens either! She just called and said there is another medication for Dorothy and her ear problem! I asked her to mail it to me and it's already on it's way!

Sadly before I knew what sour crop was? I had three hens die from it! Then our sweet Maria got it! We were beside ourselves. I went online and looked at a chickens diagram. I sat Maria down in my lap and started feeding her Parrot baby food since it's gritty! Once I got some in her I started massaging her crawl/crop. I'd gently push upwards and then downwards to push the liquid thru her throat. Once she started doing the motions of crunching things to move the liquid herself down her throat I left her to it. This is how I saved our precious little Maria!

There are so many illnesses and diseases chickens can come down with it just blows me away! Then there's the bug/worm problems too! ARGH! I figured out real quickly that the snails/slugs Maria likes to eat causes worms! I was talking to a lady at the VAH one day. She has sheep. We were discussing the worm problems and I told her about Maria eating the snails/slugs. She got all excited and said her sheep are always getting worms too. She has a wet zone area in her field where the sheep eat at and it's loaded in them. I told her I had read online that coffee grounds were good for keeping them away. She said she was going to load the swamp patch up with it. LOL I put some down around my dogs food bowl and it kept them away from it too.

TC

 

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Cynthia! Congrat's on the new babies!

Has anyone ever tested the theory on the rounder the egg the more chance of it being a HEN? I've done it and it seems to work well! It's probably just one of those wives tales though! LOL

TC

 

[Cynthia12]

Looks like my beautifully spotted baby is going to be a boy.

So bumbed, hope I'm wrong.







What do you guys think?

Wow, this little paint is marked beautifully! It does look like a boy. A couple of things..the way the top is sweeping back, and, do you see those little stringy feathers popping all about?