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aatx said:
Out of my original 7 silkies, 4 have survived - will be 4 weeks old on Wednesday. (Two died soon after getting in my order and one injured its leg and never recovered.) Three of them have been healthy from the start - two whites and a buff, I believe. I noticed that the black one wasn't growing as fast as the others and figured out that it was constipated. So for the past week or two, it's been getting special treatments - warm water run over its bum, assistance with a syringe, scrambled eggs with olive oil, and even one day where she got a few doses of an epsom salt laxative while in isolation. We seem to be mostly passed the constipation stage, but are now in the catch up phase, so I give it boiled egg yolk first, by itself, so it gets plenty, before I share it with the others. It was a bit funny when I had it in isolation. I had it in a tote in my bathroom and was just using a desk lamp for heat. Plenty warm and plenty light. All was okay if I was in the room, but about 30 seconds after I left, it would go to screaming. I'd come back in, fearing something had gone wrong with its heat or water, and it would just go back cheeping and preening itself like nothing. This repeated several times. It didn't want to be petted or anything, but it wanted me in the room! It was a bit hard to let it cry itself to sleep. I would have put it back in with the others, but I wanted a full 24 hours of poop monitoring while I was actually home with no distractions. (Thankfully we got several normal poops.) Here's a short video of it getting some boiled egg. This is a video of all the chicks (17 survived). I gave them grapes for the first time last night and it caused quite the frenzy! It is reassuring to watch it run around though, so right now I feel like we just have a bit of catching up to do, but it is healthy.
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So cute, loved the videos.
 
I have what I believe is a silkie/cochin mix, Sylvia. Sylvia is looking more boyish everyday! She has a nice big, red comb, and wattles coming in. What do you guys think?

If she is a rooster it will give me a great excuse to rehome my not so nice RIR rooster and keep her/him instead. Has anyone had experience with silkie, cochin, or silkie/cochin roosters? Are they well behaved? She is fairly feisty and I don't want to mess with another mean rooster...









 
whitneywpanetta said:
I have what I believe is a silkie/cochin mix, Sylvia. Sylvia is looking more boyish everyday! She has a nice big, red comb, and wattles coming in. What do you guys think? If she is a rooster it will give me a great excuse to rehome my not so nice RIR rooster and keep her/him instead. Has anyone had experience with silkie, cochin, or silkie/cochin roosters? Are they well behaved? She is fairly feisty and I don't want to mess with another mean rooster...
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Yes it's a roo. Those are the fluffiness feet, I had to zoom in on the pic cause I thought it was mounting a hen.
 
whitneywpanetta said:
Yes, he has crazy feet!! Do you have any experience with silkie roos? Are they well behaved? Any times on starting now to not have an aggressive rooster?
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I have several, not an aggressive one amoungst them. I have a park bench outside the coop that I sit on with my coffee and treats. When I'm having ' chook time' they hop up next to me , walk all over my feet and generally don't feel intimidated by me. My one golden rule is, don't hassle hens in front of Roos. It is only natural for him to defend his girls if you are pursuing them. I sit and watch , if I see anything that needs attention I wait till dark and go get my patient.
 
I am new to silkies, but every silkie roo I have interacted with has been wonderful. My head rooster, Prince, stands alongside the ladies and waits for them to show consent before mounting, guards babies, and is very nice when handled.
 
Fancychooklady said:
I have several, not an aggressive one amoungst them. I have a park bench outside the coop that I sit on with my coffee and treats. When I'm having ' chook time' they hop up next to me , walk all over my feet and generally don't feel intimidated by me. My one golden rule is, don't hassle hens in front of Roos. It is only natural for him to defend his girls if you are pursuing them. I sit and watch , if I see anything that needs attention I wait till dark and go get my patient.
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Thanks for the reply! I am hoping that will be the case with Sylvia. My RIR rooster is not nice, I hardly interact with the hens to avoid upsetting him, and he still likes to come after me from time to tim. I just want a good protector and someone who knows I'm not a threat when I am around.
 
Rekon said:
I am new to silkies, but every silkie roo I have interacted with has been wonderful. My head rooster, Prince, stands alongside the ladies and waits for them to show consent before mounting, guards babies, and is very nice when handled.
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Did you raise them from chicks? Did you handle them frequently or do anything in particular to help keep them more tame? I handled my RIR all the time, he still grew up to be an a**.
 
I handle and spend time with all our birds, but some breeds are just more likely to be aggressive. When we got Prince, we suddenly found out that several of our Ameraucana 'pullets' were roos, and jack@$$es at that, and we even had trouble with our Welsummer hens. The other Silkies, Polish, Orloffs, and Orpingtons were all fine, so now we have two coops.
 

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