Silkie thread!

[drumstick diva]

Great mama too!!

 

[lovechicks1293]

We have chicks hatching.

oh my gosh i am being overwhelmed by cuteness! i need them at my house. stat. lol

 

[chickachickayea]

e :yiipchick

My little 22 week old Silkie, Tiny, just laid her first egg this morning! And true to her name, it's quite an adorable tiny egg! I literally squealed when I opened the coop to find this little thing! No shame!

Tiny!

 

[AmandaVirginia]

e :yiipchick

My little 22 week old Silkie, Tiny, just laid her first egg this morning! And true to her name, it's quite an adorable tiny egg! I literally squealed when I opened the coop to find this little thing! No shame!

Tiny!

Tiny is so pretty!! And that's so EGGciting!!

 

[lovechicks1293]

My little 22 week old Silkie, Tiny, just laid her first egg this morning! And true to her name, it's quite an adorable tiny egg! I literally squealed when I opened the coop to find this little thing! No shame!

Tiny!

how fun!!!

 

[Fancychooklady]

e :yiipchick

My little 22 week old Silkie, Tiny, just laid her first egg this morning! And true to her name, it's quite an adorable tiny egg! I literally squealed when I opened the coop to find this little thing! No shame!

Tiny!

And a good sized egg it is too !

 

[Sylvester017]

My little 22 week old Silkie, Tiny, just laid her first egg this morning! And true to her name, it's quite an adorable tiny egg! I literally squealed when I opened the coop to find this little thing! No shame!

Tiny!

Silkie eggs are actually quite sizeable for a 2-lb bird! Our girls lay between 1.25 to 1.5-oz eggs but more consistently 1.25. Congrats to Tiny! You call you Silkie "Tiny" and we call our littlest Silkie "Mini" since she's a mini-chicken

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[mccorbin]

Aww how cute, congrats

 

[Crazy For Color]

Need advice, please help! I have a small flock of four chickens, only one of them being a silkie. I am new to raising chickens and brought the first three home together at 1 week old. A Black Sex Link, an Isa Brown, and a Buff Orpington. Approx 7 weeks later, I brought the silkie home and he/she is about one week younger than the rest. (I'm leaning towards a roo but not 100% sure yet) They are 16 and 17 weeks old. At first, when I brought him home, they did very well together (I did introduce them slowly just to make sure) Yesterday I noticed that he was sitting off by himself, instead of toddling around with the rest. I checked the crop and it seems fine. Last night, he slept on the coop floor instead of up on the roost which is something else that not his normal behavior. This morning he ate scrambled eggs and I witnessed a normal poo but he is still not very active. I'm worried that he is either sick or maybe feeling lonely because he doesn't have another silkie friend to hang out with? Should I have gotten 2? I haven't seen any aggression with the other chickens but maybe they're excluding him? I tried to be very descriptive so I apologize for the long post but I'm hoping with as much information as possible, someone might be better able to help.

 

[beethechicken]

Omlet has a lot going for it in some of their coop features except for their flimsy cage runs and chickens prefer wooden perches in my experience.  Another thing ~ unsuspecting customers fall for any manufacturers' recommended number of chickens that fit in a coop.  Whether I have Silkies or large fowl I factor in the same square feet per chicken.  Silkies are bantams but because they don't fly they still need the same space as large fowl so they can flap and run for exercise.  Even though I have a large Chicken Condos Barn Coop that recommends 15 chickens I wouldn't keep more than 4 or 5 in it ~ especially when you factor how much ventilation is needed the more chickens are pooping and roosting in it.  People buying a little coop for the first time are fooled into thinking they can keep more chickens than is actually safe!  I feel so sorry for newbies falling for the manufacturers' misleading recommendations. 

Omlet must make some very secure Eglu Classics - I subscribe to the Omlet Newsletter and they posted a picture of a Classic that floated in a backyard flood and the owners found their 2 hens safe and sound and dry when they opened the Eglu!!!  A couple years ago I ordered 3 Eglu Grubs to use as waterers.  I had a Leghorn that would stand in the drinking water and muddy it up so I figured there was no way she could figure a way to stand in water in a Grub.  Well, sadly the hooks on the Grubs didn't fit our kennel wire and I was out over $70 and not worth the expense of returning or monkeying with fitting them.  So we gave them away to a friend.

Oh, that's really unfortunate about the size problem -and thank you for telling me! I think I'll stick with it for now as my chickens really love it and to be honest they seem to have enough room - the others aren't as big as the silkie! But I'll keep an eye on that problem for the next few months whilst they all mature as I really love them all to bits!