Silkie thread!

[RubyNala97]

vapor barrier 6 mm, or just a tarp and some staples. ya i just talked with my dad and he said we are going use a tarp just because that stuff is very weak, but i think i can convince him. 
( this isn't my coop i was just looking for plans)

look on the "plastic wrapped runs???" thread

Great! Thank you guys for the info. When do you normally do it if you live in a cold climate? October/November?

 

[phoenix-silkie]

Great! Thank you guys for the info. When do you normally do it if you live in a cold climate? October/November?

when ever it has snowed and stayed for a little while. would be the best time. chickens are really winter hardy (depends on the breed). most heavy breeds don't even need it its just feels nice to do for them im not putting my heat lamp in the coop i'm putting it out in the run just because they don't need the heat lamp because my coop is insulated so ill put it out side to lure them out. i cant wait till December because that is the time my pullets should start laying eggs.

my flock: 2 buff Orpington, 2 gold laced Brahmas, 1 buff Brahma, 2 partridge silkies, and one silver phoenix rooster.
in 2016 i want to get two cream Legbar, 2 phoenix hens, and wight silkies.
i eill be breeding my phoenix in 2016 to all breeds of hens, just to see what they will look like.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Well Sparrow is back in the house. I'm pretty sure the roo in the special needs pen wasn't letting her eat. I opened the door to check feed and water and she came running to me but was wobbling a bit. When I picked her up she was very thin so in she came. I gave her a dose of vitamins, a bath and I fed her by tube. She loves attention so it was no problem to feed her plus she was very hungry. I reckon she was so relieved I got her out she relaxed completely after her bath and food and was laying on her side asleep on my couch. She is eating on her own as of last night but she is still weak. She'll get TLC till she gains weight again. She's just gonna have to stay in a cage by herself. BeBe can be a real butt head when it comes to food. He will lay between the feeder and water and peck at anybody that tries to get in his way. Although the 2 hens can eat from the other sides of the water and food.

I have a question about BeBe. He is going on 3 years old and he has never crowed. I don't know how I missed it but he has no spurs. Not even a bump. He has never showed any interest in breeding either. My question is does his inability to crow and the lack of spurs have anything to do with not being interested in females?

When I got him he was shipped to me with 5 other chicks. I lost the others before they turned a year old and I managed to keep him alive by tube feeding for many months. I don't know what was wrong with him but he grew to be a fat roo. His balance has never been very good and I thought that was the reason he never wanted to breed a hen. I don't want him to breed either of the hens he's with now but I"m just curious why he don't. He loves chicks though. He perks up when he gets to have the company of chicks. He was in heaven last summer when he was in a pen with a bunch of chicks. George my special needs hen isn't fond of chicks at all. She will tolerate them if she has to but prefers they don't come within pecking reach of her. She has stopped laying eggs as of last year and she's only been broody once and I let her brood and raise a couple at that time and after about a month she wanted the chicks out of her cage. Not the loving mother Silkies are nown to be. She came down with Ulcerative Enteritis year before last and I got her over that and she started laying eggs again but not regularly. Then last year she came down with it again. She laid a couple eggs then stopped all together. I don't need her to lay eggs anyway. The black young hen I have in the house now was laying eggs then stopped. I had to give her a round of vitamins and she started laying again then stopped and hasn't laid any in about a month now. I thought maybe BeBe would be interested in breeding if I put a laying hen with him but no. She also stopped laying soon after I put her in the special needs pen. Again, I don't need her to lay anyway. I can't sell the eggs from any special needs hen anyway so no loss there.

Oh well, just wondering if the lack of spurs has anything to do with a roo not wanting to breed or crow. Or if any of it is related. 

Dietary deficiencies can be passed down through the egg, the fact that you have had multiple flock members with problems , would warrant regular additions of vitamins to the entire flocks water. One of the most dangerous outcomes of wryneck is anorexia. It's good that you are familiar with tube feeding, it's not for the ' light hearted ' .
As for your roo, fertility can be effected by nutrition, weight ( fat birds don't make good breeders ) certain drugs and diseases. Infectious bronchitis is said to leave birds infertile.
The other possibility , being that he/she has never crowed and lacks Spurs , is that it is actually a hen . Hens actually have one gonad and it's not uncommon for a hen to cease laying and start crowing and start behaving like a roo.

 

[TherryChicken]

 

[emvickrey]

Dietary deficiencies can be passed down through the egg, the fact that you have had multiple flock members with problems , would warrant regular additions of vitamins to the entire flocks water. One of the most dangerous outcomes of wryneck is anorexia. It's good that you are familiar with tube feeding, it's not for the ' light hearted ' .
As for your roo, fertility can be effected by nutrition, weight ( fat birds don't make good breeders ) certain drugs and diseases. Infectious bronchitis is said to leave birds infertile.
The other possibility , being that he/she has never crowed and lacks Spurs , is that it is actually a hen . Hens actually have one gonad and it's not uncommon for a hen to cease laying and start crowing and start behaving like a roo.

Bebe has streamers. Maybe hes a he/she. The only silkies i kept are paints and the 3 special needs silkies and those 3 arent for breeding. So their wont be a chance to breed in any problems. Oh and Bebee is fat too

 

[TherryChicken]

 

[and-roo]

Bebe has streamers. Maybe hes a he/she. The only silkies i kept are paints and the 3 special needs silkies and those 3 arent for breeding. So their wont be a chance to breed in any problems. Oh and Bebee is fat too

could you post a pic of this Bebe? I kinda wanna see him

 

[lukec9915]

Yeah I have 2 silkies 1 blue silkie hen and 1 white silkie rooster the rooster could be a show bird but with the bird flu I'm not too sure about it.

 

[emvickrey]

could you post a pic of this Bebe? I kinda wanna see him

 

[and-roo]

I like him . He kinda looks like mine, but older. No doubt he's a rooster though...