Silkie thread!

[Suzierd]

Well I had my first Moma hen attack on a just hatched chick. Thank you God I got there when I did or she would have killed it. I think because it didn't hatch under her. Here it is when first picking it up I seen a wound on the underside up towards the wing. I washed the blood off best I could and put it back under the Moma hen that is taking good care of it. The one that pecked it has been removed. This happened yesterday. Today it looked like the feathers didn't fluff on some of the underside and around the one eye. And it looked like the one eye was closed most of the way but when I took her out to put medicine on her wound she opened it good and the eye looks ok. I put Vetericyn around the eye and on the wound and gave her some drops of water with Rooster booster vitamins and electrolytes in it and she ate a few bites of food softened with the vitamin water. She seems spunky and lively. Sure hope she's going to be ok.

 

[torrelee]

Guesses on gretyl? I think she's 3-4 months. SEEMS hen like, though she and the showgirl are battling for fominance a little.

little bit of beetle green, but she has color leakage all over. No intention of breeding, so majes pretty yard candy

 

[torrelee]

Petrie should be around 14 weeks. I've heard her sing the egg song, and sits on the younger silkie some times. A face only a mother could love... amost guinea like with the beak bump lol. Pullet?

 

[torrelee]

Jonnie-bird. Think shes 8-10 weeks. Still peeps like a chick and climbs under the bigger 2.
Appreciate age or gender guesses

 

[judy mclean]

OK hopefully these are better

 

[dstinett]

Am I the ONLY one that wanted a too and got a hen??

 

[judy mclean]

OK hopefully these are better

roos or hen?

 

[The Hustons]

Jonnie-bird. Think shes 8-10 weeks. Still peeps like a chick and climbs under the bigger 2.
Appreciate age or gender guesses

I'm no expert but I'm going w/ girl ! I have an 8 week old that looks identical to this one ! Such a cutie !

 

[Sylvester017]

i got the silkies with a polish, a cochin, an EE, a mille fleaur D, uccle, and a silver spangled hamburg. when they are older they will be living with an EE, a campine, a dorking, red sexlinks, naked necks, and BRs. when the time comes should i build them a adult chicken proof enclosure for them?

Watch the temperament of your LF around the Polish, EE and bantam breeds. Sometimes there are no incidents but from my research Hamburgs, Campines (Braekel types), BRs, and Sexlinks can get aggressive in their adult stage so just watch them. I am totally unfamiliar with Dorkings or Naked Necks but since they are very LF maybe keep an eye on them too. Even gentle LF can be tempted to pick on smaller gentler breeds just because of the power that they CAN due to their larger size. This is one of the reasons I didn't accept the gentle Coronation Sussex into my yard - the hens get up to 7-lbs and way too large around my 2-lb Silkies - not an equal pecking order fight IMO. I had a 6-month-old Silkie that would've been clawed to death by a 7-lb Marans if I hadn't caught it just as it started - the Marans was gone the next day! I don't keep breeds that don't play nice with my Silkies or my Ameraucana who are my non-combative non-assertive breeds. If you don't want to wait for an incident to happen then separate the Hamburg, Campine, Sexlinks, BRs from the gentler breeds. As for your Dorkings or Naked Necks I am not at all familiar with them and they may be a non-combative breed but they get large so might do better with the LF. In very large acreages the gentler breeds can find areas to hang out away from the aggressive types but in a backyard situation like ours we are just too small to mix assertive LF with gentler breeds. We refuse to add any LF breed weighing more than 5-lb no matter how gentle they are reported to be. So many chickeneers are unaware that a chicken is not just another chicken and temperaments, size, climates, and diets are not always compatible in a mixed flock. You are now armed with info that is up to you to decide what you wish to do.

 

[torrelee]

I'm no expert but I'm going w/ girl ! I have an 8 week old that looks identical to this one ! Such a cutie !

Thanks Shes pretty cute, but kind of a ditz so far!