Okay! The ice pack answer! LOL The silkies get really hot underneath the covers/blanket! So I counteract their desire of wanting to be covered up by placing a well wrapped ice pack underneath them so they stay cool and comfortable all the way around! 
When in their crates in their bedroom? I take an old bottom leg piece of sweatpants and cut them off. I make a sort of sleeve out of it so I can drop the ice pack into it. Then I wrap paper towels around it. I set one in each crate for the girls to stand on when they want to cool off! Simplicity in itself! LOL
I believe the baby throwing itself at the cage was a black sexling! Not really sure of it now. That was a long time ago. It too didn't want any part of other chickens. Only wanted to be with us people. It would sit on my husbands shoulder in the recliner. Anytime I was left holding her she ended up inside my sports bra because I was always working around the place!
I had a few hens myself that wanted to come inside the kitchen door to go sit in the milkcrate I had in the corner filled with hay. They'd knock on the door. I'd let them in. They'd do their business then would stand at the door to be let back outside. I tell people all the time; "Chickens aren't no dumb yard bird like most think they are!"
My Ameraucanas were very flighty and scared to death of us. They were the large breed ones. Then I got a free bantam one with a order from M/M! She laid the prettiest little blue eggs.
Sylvester! Thank you for the Thanks on serving our country! I was truly devastated when I was medically discharged. I had been in the Army for half a lifetime and didn't know what to do with myself after that. When I run into fellow soldiers now and they ask what am I doing with myself? I tell them I'm sitting at home playing chicken momma! They love it!
As for Maria being spoiled rotten! My momma says; "You can spoil anything!" How right she is!
My husband and I are at a crossroads here right now! I don't want to lose Maria's bloodline due to all the hens in her bloodline are super small and just precious sweethearts. I only have one silkie rooster and he's too big for her. I've often thought of getting a small friendly white rooster from someone to put with her, but then we'd be back to possibly having more roosters hatch and that we don't need or want. And then there's the other case of we would like to visit my daughter and her family in MD someday! That trip is impossible to do while we have our kids. Maria was hatched in March 2011. So I'm not sure how much longer we have to get those fertile eggs from her IF that's the plan we go with! ARGH!
TC
When in their crates in their bedroom? I take an old bottom leg piece of sweatpants and cut them off. I make a sort of sleeve out of it so I can drop the ice pack into it. Then I wrap paper towels around it. I set one in each crate for the girls to stand on when they want to cool off! Simplicity in itself! LOLI believe the baby throwing itself at the cage was a black sexling! Not really sure of it now. That was a long time ago. It too didn't want any part of other chickens. Only wanted to be with us people. It would sit on my husbands shoulder in the recliner. Anytime I was left holding her she ended up inside my sports bra because I was always working around the place!
I had a few hens myself that wanted to come inside the kitchen door to go sit in the milkcrate I had in the corner filled with hay. They'd knock on the door. I'd let them in. They'd do their business then would stand at the door to be let back outside. I tell people all the time; "Chickens aren't no dumb yard bird like most think they are!"
My Ameraucanas were very flighty and scared to death of us. They were the large breed ones. Then I got a free bantam one with a order from M/M! She laid the prettiest little blue eggs.
Sylvester! Thank you for the Thanks on serving our country! I was truly devastated when I was medically discharged. I had been in the Army for half a lifetime and didn't know what to do with myself after that. When I run into fellow soldiers now and they ask what am I doing with myself? I tell them I'm sitting at home playing chicken momma! They love it!
As for Maria being spoiled rotten! My momma says; "You can spoil anything!" How right she is!
My husband and I are at a crossroads here right now! I don't want to lose Maria's bloodline due to all the hens in her bloodline are super small and just precious sweethearts. I only have one silkie rooster and he's too big for her. I've often thought of getting a small friendly white rooster from someone to put with her, but then we'd be back to possibly having more roosters hatch and that we don't need or want. And then there's the other case of we would like to visit my daughter and her family in MD someday! That trip is impossible to do while we have our kids. Maria was hatched in March 2011. So I'm not sure how much longer we have to get those fertile eggs from her IF that's the plan we go with! ARGH!
TC
