Silkie thread!

[lightchick]

What color is this little ones guys?

Buff. I think.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have 2 almost 10 week old chicks that I still haven't integrated with the flock yet. I am curious what other people have to say on this too. Anytime I free range them together, everyone is okay. But in the coop and run, they get picked on too much.

If they are accompanied by a hen , I usually reintroduce them to the coop between 5-6 weeks. It can be a little tricky adding youngsters to the flock and it depends largely on the size of your flock and coop. I have a little A frame that I put inside the coop. I keep the chicks contained within for a week or so then I start opening the cage to allow them to come out and have look. This can be time consuming but it gives the chicks a chance to find their ' big pants '.
If all else fails I wait until the chicks are of a similar size to the adults ( 10-12 weeks ) .

 

[atrueb00]

If they are accompanied by a hen , I usually reintroduce them to the coop between 5-6 weeks. It can be a little tricky adding youngsters to the flock and it depends largely on the size of your flock and coop. I have a little A frame that I put inside the coop. I keep the chicks contained within for a week or so then I start opening the cage to allow them to come out and have look. This can be time consuming but it gives the chicks a chance to find their ' big pants '.
If all else fails I wait until the chicks are of a similar size to the adults ( 10-12 weeks ) .

Thank you! They are really close to the same size as the smallest hen I have, just don't have all their feathers yet so they look a lot smaller. I know part of it is just them finding their place in the pecking order and I will have to let them do that. Just don't trust the hens to not peck at the littles all day long if I am away. Their mom wanted in with the larger group a couple of weeks ago and when I kept her with the littles she acted restless, so I re-introduced her sans chicks. Guess I should have waited or put the littles in there with her.

 

[Suzierd]

I know it has been over a year since my last post about the Silkies I had in my incubator. Out of the six, three hatched and I was very pleased. It was fun watching them get bigger and their feathers coming out. But it is with a heavy heart I am here to say that they did not make it. After a couple of months and them being in there own coup, Noodle, &Rice, Creamof, all went to the big farm in the sky. I like to let my birds out during the day and lock them up at night. Well I don't know if it was the fluffy feathers or their trusting disposition but one day I came home from work and there was only three small piles of feathers for me to remember them by. Along with my two Japanese black tail and one of my two Barred Rock bantam, the great chicken massacre of 2013 left my down and out in my poultry rearing. But after a brief hiatus and the CIA movements and skills of "Lucky", my last hen standing Barred Rock, I am back in the game again. 
A week or so ago I noticed that Lucky had laid a few eggs, and then a little later a few more. Well then she went to setting, (I have no roo, so I knew all the eggs where blanks.)   I gave her a few days to see if this was really what she wanted to do with her life, and after another week she confirmed it. I could not get any Bantam eggs locally, so I opted for the ebay fertilization network. I found 14 Frizzle Silkie eggs from a lady that I had purchased from before. Quick and secure shipping brought these future fluff balls to my door, posthaste. The next obstacle was to find when Lucky took her break from her motherly duties to stretch her legs and have a little "me" time. Most of the time she likes to get off her eggs early in the morning, but for some reason she knew I had plans for her. After stalking her most of the day she had to finally take a pee break. So I swiftly moved in and removed her un-fertile eggs, which by the way she was sitting on twelve. I figured she was not that great at math with only ten toes, I figured the other two eggs would go unnoticed. As I got everything switched and ready to go she came around the corner wanting back in her coop. I nonchalantly stepped back to my nature area and sat for a while watching to see if she knew some slight of hand had happened in her absence.  Well I am happy to say it has been 3 days and she is still just sitting as happy as if she had good sense. So as soon as I have some hopefully happy news to spread with this great community of poultry plebeian, I will make sure you all are the first to know!

Sorry for your loss, I hope all goes well with the new ones. Did you ever figure out what got them? I wouldn't let your new ones out unsupervised it could happen again. Maybe you could build a nice big run for them while your at work.

 

[TeachAtHome]

She's adorable!!! I think it's some kind of a partridge coloring.

She has the partridge stripes.. but I haven't seen the coloring so it had me confused, heh.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Buff. I think.

Looks more like porcelain to me.

 

[judy mclean]

I still can't tell wha

I have

 

[judy mclean]

Does anyone know what they are

 

[I<3MyChickens-Jewel&Flash]

I would not amputate her legs that's no life for a chicken I think it would be better to let her have crooked toes. Does she get around ok? Is she still growing? Get some vitamins in her. I feel bad for her.

No she wasn't getting around 9k. It was getting worse. Had her legs amputated to the knee being at leg. She now has stubs.apparently vet took x-ray and something wasn't right. Said it would get worse.

She doing ok... learning to walk all over again. She's going to be inside rest of life. Or be in coop with rob and hen who are deforemed. Roo doesn't hurt her. He comes up to her and says hi.

 

[I<3MyChickens-Jewel&Flash]

Does anyone know what they are

look like roos. But you never knpw.