Silkie thread!

[Half Moon Ranch]

Lol, sometimes also referred to as a ' wind egg ' . Pullet eggs that are misshaped , or overly small.

http://gardenally.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/fart-eggs.html

Very interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing if there is a yoke in this egg, though I'll probably wait until I have enough for a small omelet before I check.
Here is the egg next to a grade A large from the store.
The shape is perfect and the size definitely silkie sized.



This is the silkie I suspected and even if it isn't her's I still suspect it's a pullet.
She's just too sweet and the other ones are buttheads.



I noticed there was not another egg today and I had to collect her up off the perch in the run and put her in the coop tonight.
I thought that since I found her next to the nesting box, in the coop yesterday, she might have been tuckered out from producing her first egg, but who knows.

 

[kculbert]

I lost a baby tonight. I knew she was acting funny but when I would reach in to get her, she would run into the middle of the group and I wouldn't know which one she was. 7 weeks old today. My husband put them out in their cage this morning and we went to do some grocery shopping this afternoon about 5pm. When we got home I walked past their cage and she was sitting in a corner with her head stuck out through the bars. She looked dead and I dropped the groceries and yanked open that pen, picked her up and she was still alive. Her crop was empty but they had food and water. I brought her in and put her in a brooder under a lamp and kept an eye on her. I came in to ask what to do for her (here) but went back to give her some sugar water before asking here. I couldn't get her to open her mouth willingly but I think I got a little bit in her. I was afraid to try to give her very much because she wasn't holding her head up and acting like she was swallowing. I came to ask what to do and my husband called me and told me that she was still alive but panting real hard. I don't remember what I was doing but hadn't gotten on BYC yet and went back to check the chick. She had died. What my husband saw must have been her last gasping breaths.

I don't know why it didn't occur to me before this but I could have taken a drop of food coloring or koolaid and dropped it on her from outside the cage and then I would have been able to tell her from the others. Well, I think I could have, it might just have run off her feathers/fluff.

So sorry for your loss...

 

[Sylviaanne]

So sorry for your loss...

Thank you. I appreciate it. Sylvia

 

[Fancychooklady]

Very interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing if there is a yoke in this egg, though I'll probably wait until I have enough for a small omelet before I check. Here is the egg next to a grade A large from the store. The shape is perfect and the size definitely silkie sized. This is the silkie I suspected and even if it isn't her's I still suspect it's a pullet. She's just too sweet and the other ones are buttheads. I noticed there was not another egg today and I had to collect her up off the perch in the run and put her in the coop tonight. I thought that since I found her next to the nesting box, in the coop yesterday, she might have been tuckered out from producing her first egg, but who knows.

Looks like a pullet to me.

 

[TiaRC]

Looks like a pullet to me.

x2

 

[AZChiknGoddess]

x2

X3

 

[Sylvester017]

I lost a baby tonight. I knew she was acting funny but when I would reach in to get her, she would run into the middle of the group and I wouldn't know which one she was. 7 weeks old today. My husband put them out in their cage this morning and we went to do some grocery shopping this afternoon about 5pm. When we got home I walked past their cage and she was sitting in a corner with her head stuck out through the bars. She looked dead and I dropped the groceries and yanked open that pen, picked her up and she was still alive. Her crop was empty but they had food and water. I brought her in and put her in a brooder under a lamp and kept an eye on her. I came in to ask what to do for her (here) but went back to give her some sugar water before asking here. I couldn't get her to open her mouth willingly but I think I got a little bit in her. I was afraid to try to give her very much because she wasn't holding her head up and acting like she was swallowing. I came to ask what to do and my husband called me and told me that she was still alive but panting real hard. I don't remember what I was doing but hadn't gotten on BYC yet and went back to check the chick. She had died. What my husband saw must have been her last gasping breaths.

I don't know why it didn't occur to me before this but I could have taken a drop of food coloring or koolaid and dropped it on her from outside the cage and then I would have been able to tell her from the others. Well, I think I could have, it might just have run off her feathers/fluff.

We had an APA Ameraucana juvenile that was around 11 weeks when we lost her and your chick's behavior was just like ours. Her sister was fine and we still have her today but that little juvenile chick was gasping. We held her hoping she'd be ok and were going to take her to the vet in the morning but she was gone rather quickly. You just never know why one chick is fine and why its sister dies. Just so traumatic to lose a bird.

 

[Sylvester017]

Got a question. Aren't silkie eggs cream/white color?

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My Partridge Silkie has always layed cream/off-white matte eggs and our Black Silkie has always layed pretty pink glossy eggs that get paler as the season progresses. Seems like tinted or brown egg layers can lay anywhere from a very pale to a medium color depending on how long the egg travels in the oviduct. Rarely one of the Silkies will lay a more oblong shape than usual. My Partridge will usually lay one soft-shell egg right before she goes broody or starts a moult. I only have two Silkies but they are different as night and day in their routine, behavior, cycles, etc.

 

[Sylviaanne]

Very sorry to hear, I wonder if she ate something bad? So had to know sometimes.

If she did, it wasn't recent. Her crop felt empty. I got some sugar water in her and I had some yogurt but hadn't tried that yet. I just caught her too late.

 

[Sylviaanne]

We had an APA Ameraucana juvenile that was around 11 weeks when we lost her and your chick's behavior was just like ours. Her sister was fine and we still have her today but that little juvenile chick was gasping. We held her hoping she'd be ok and were going to take her to the vet in the morning but she was gone rather quickly. You just never know why one chick is fine and why its sister dies. Just so traumatic to lose a bird.

I had 9 hatch out of that clutch of silkie eggs. Lost one almost immediately after it hatched and now this one. If I didn't have both incubators full I could go back and get more eggs but I just don't have the space for more for after these hatch. It's supposed to be a bad winter and these babies will have to go into the basement until they are ready to go outside and that will be hard for me to do. I know they say chickens don't need heat but when I see them all huddled up like they are freezing, I can't stand it so I don't know when I will be able to put these guys outside.