Silkie thread!

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Check out this little guy. Gorgeous feet, seriously lacking in the crest department. I'm thinking it might be a little cockerel.

All of his hatch mates have huge crests, like this:

 

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Funky: WOW! Those are some fluffy chickens! Hopefully the head feathers will grow in sometime soon!! If not now maybe after his first molting?

TC

 

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Well Folks, Its been a while, but Im getting back into it!

We had a hard winter, but spring has arrived and I am now ready to get some more silkies. I was going to get some chicks from Bobbi Porto but my husband doesn't want to do the chick thing again. So I am hoping to get 2-3 young pullets that are from SQ lines, and have lots of SQ potential. Im not too picky about color as I am starting out fresh. I know I do love the Splash and Paints. (I really wish Judy Lee was selling birds again) I also love the self blue, porcelain, buff, red, BBS, salmon, tye-dye... heck, anything as long as it is sweet, and nice type.

She will be a show bird, but mostly my buddy that will travel with me and be my friend. Any suggestions of who would offer something like this to a girl just starting back up? I was thinking of asking Karen Larsen, maybe Geri G... anyone else?

Thank you all.
Kristen

There's someone offering a splash rooster on the Thread if you are interested! If it's still available that is! He's a gorgeous Roo!

TC

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Funky: WOW! Those are some fluffy chickens! Hopefully the head feathers will grow in sometime soon!! If not now maybe after his first molting?

TC

Thanks, they are quite fluffy. He's got more feathers up there than he had last week, there were literally none! They're about 12 weeks old or so, so he's still got time to grow

 

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Okay! Due to lack of sleep and can't seem to find it! Someone had asked me if I was planning on getting anymore laying hens?

I'm probably going to need to get a couple to keep Marvin company! I don't want him constantly going after my two silkie girls when they are outside in their pens. He tries to reach thru and grab their heads for mounting. That's a NO NO!

I would love to get two Black Star hens. They lay huge eggs. I've had a many of them before! Not sure how friendly they are though! They were some of the large group I had in the field coup at my former home.

I'd really love to get two buff Op's, but I don't want chickens that stick out like a sore thumb to all the flying predators around here either!

So with this said? I'll just start pulling my hair out that's down to my butt a little at a time while I try to decide what to do!

TC

 

[Sylvester017]

I have a beautiful cockerel that when I noticed his beak going in the wrong direction he was about the same age as yours. But my fella's beak wasnot crossed but growing in at a sideways angle. Now it's also crossed. He eats and drinks just fine. He's pretty heavy actually but he can't hang on to breed. I wouldn't use him for breeding anyway. because of the beak.


His comb is even crooked. I suppose there is a deformity to the front part of his skull but he don't act like he has anything wrong with him. Unfortunately I can't use him so I have him up for free to who ever will take him as a pet. He loves cuddling and also unfortunate we don't have a ground pen for him right now. I get him out sometimes to do a little wandering and I feed him fresh Kale cut from the garden. Despite the front view of his face he is beautiful and so fluffy.

So if anybody wants him you supply the box and pay the shipping and he's yours but only as long as he is to be a pet.

He is so beautiful I want to cry at what happened to him! We aren't zoned for roos so I hope he gets a lovely pet home.

 

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Thanks, they are quite fluffy. He's got more feathers up there than he had last week, there were literally none! They're about 12 weeks old or so, so he's still got time to grow

OH! OK! Then he's a young man!! Yeah he's got lots of time to feather out!

Your Avatar looks like my Molly girl!

TC

 

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He is so beautiful I want to cry at what happened to him! We aren't zoned for roos so I hope he gets a lovely pet home.

I want to cry too Sylvester! Poor fellar! Not the life a handsome Roo should have to live!

TC

 

[Sylvester017]

Sylvester! You do know I was teasing you and joking around too? Would never intentionally try to hurt a fellow chickie persons feelings!

I never put small chickens in with larger ones! That's a BIG NO NO on my side of the fence! People that do that just irritate the hello out of me! I want to take that person and toss them into a ring fight and tell them good luck!

A little trick I learned for pecking chicks. Whenever I caught them pecking others or myself? I would grab their beak between my thumb and finger and wiggle their head back and forth. All the while telling them - no pecking! It didn't take them long to learn they weren't supposed to peck others! We did the same thing for those that thought our eyeballs were for pecking too!

If you have a chick born with a toe that's turned under or crooked? Get a piece of duck tape or gorilla tape and cut it down to fit on it's foot. This will hold it's little toe in place so that it straightens out.

As for a crooked beak? You'd have to get a piece of wire or small rubberband to put at the base of it's beak. Make it loose enough though so it could still eat and drink water. A better way would to do it only at night while it's sleeping.

TC

Yes TC, I caught onto you back when LOL!

I know the booties, bandages, tapes work to straighten out chick toes, splayed leg, but didn't know crooked/crossed beak could be fixed. There's a lovely Silkie roo photo with a crossed beak on the Silkie thread that is being given away as a pet because it can't even hold on to mate, poor thing. I wonder if anyone on this thread knows of your method as it seems there are a lot of Silkies born with crossed beak and only gets worse as they mature. Your method makes sense to straighten the jaw since as it grows it seems to get worse. A wire brace or something to keep it straightened as the juvenile grows makes a whole lot of sense and at roost time - it gives a good overnight undisturbed brace setting! There's no correcting of deformities after the chicken matures but a lot of deformities should be corrected to the best of our ability while the bones and body of the chick is still growing.

 

[Iluvmysilkies]

Check out this little guy. Gorgeous feet, seriously lacking in the crest department. I'm thinking it might be a little cockerel.

All of his hatch mates have huge crests, like this:

Haha Oh my gosh thats so funny & cute lolol