Silkie thread!

[FeatherBee]

Hello, All your silkie pics are so pretty!
Heres one of mine... Eggs are a day off hatching!

 

[jmdarrow]

Misery must love company -- they don't seem spooked at all by the experience when sharing the water.

there isn't any water in the tub. I just wanted to dry them out. Our first snowfall and if I dont keep the ramp shoveled they won't use it. Of course I didn't think about it until I got home and they were soaked. So, we brought them inside. They are drying out nicely and happily crowing in my tub. Or should I say singing? Rather loudly I may add. Oh for the love of my silkies! Lol!!!

 

[jmdarrow]

Nothing says love like 3 wet roosters in your tub!

Misery must love company -- they don't seem spooked at all by the experience when sharing the water.

They were pretty miserable. Didn't know what to expect from them. Thank God they get along pretty well. They all hung out in the corner, then after awhile they started crowing. What a ruckus. They are dry and happy to be back in their Batchelor pad. The hubs and I are too. Talk about singing in the shower....geez. Too funny.

 

[kellyloveschad]

Ok I need help my friend gave me five of her favorite silkies one white with brown eyes a portage and a paint also a porcelain sizzle and a all black! everyone is doing great with my regular chickens and my silkies with them. my issue is the black one is so sad I got her to eat some bread but she is so sad!! my friend said her lover died protecting her I guess what I am wondering is there anything I can do to help her?? my black rooster was calling the hens to scratch and when she didn't come he picked up a piece of scratch and tried to feed it to her!!! idk what I should do!

 

[kellyloveschad]

she is the only one of my silkies with green eyes!

 

[Sylvester017]

Ok I need help. my issue is the black one is so sad I got her to eat some bread but she is so sad!! my friend said her lover died protecting her I guess what I am wondering is there anything I can do to help her?? my black rooster was calling the hens to scratch and when she didn't come he picked up a piece of scratch and tried to feed it to her!!! idk what I should do!

I had a new juvenile that got shipped to me and she wouldn't eat for 3 days! We kept offering her different kinds of feed -- turkey grow, layer pellets, 3-grain scratch, wild bird seed mix, produce, etc. She just wouldn't eat for 3 days. Finally on the 3rd day we saw her hungry enough to go eat. A new environment and change can greatly affect a chicken's integration into a new place with new chickens and it takes some a while to get used to their new pecking order rank. Molting or broody Silkies kinda lose their appetites and act lethargic too. Are those new feather shafts in her crest? That's what my black Silkie looks like when she's growing in new crest fluff.

 

[Sylvester017]

she is the only one of my silkies with green eyes!

Green-eyed Silkies don't meet the ABA SOP for eye color but she certainly is a keeper for her uniqueness!

 

[kellyloveschad]

I had a new juvenile that got shipped to me and she wouldn't eat for 3 days! We kept offering her different kinds of feed -- turkey grow, layer pellets, 3-grain scratch, wild bird seed mix, produce, etc. She just wouldn't eat for 3 days. Finally on the 3rd day we saw her hungry enough to go eat. A new environment and change can greatly affect a chicken's integration into a new place with new chickens and it takes some a while to get used to their new pecking order rank. Molting or broody Silkies kinda lose their appetites and act lethargic too. Are those new feather shafts in her crest? That's what my black Silkie looks like when she's growing in new crest fluff.

She finally ate some bread my rooster feed her she was already upset when I picked her up!! she's 2years old so it could be either! her lover died protecting her so I hope she isn't depressed! my friend had lots of birds and something keeps killing them so I took some!

 

[AmandaVirginia]

I got Sid (blue silkie) & Stella (white silkie) three months ago as day old babies. Unfortunately, at about 6 weeks old Sid went missing and we never found him

Then I got Sye (splash silkie) at 6 weeks old for Stella. I put them together immediately, unaware their size difference due to their age difference (3 weeks) would pose a problem. Needless to say, Sye died the next day. I'm not sure how

With all of that being said, our 'girl' Stella became the fella named Stella when he crowed one morning (he's my very first chicken and I just can't get enough of that adorable sound that comes out of his beak) and we finally picked up his perfect mate, Flo from Florida, on Friday afternoon down at the beach! Stella is 3 months old and Flo is a year this month! I just love her Splash coloring and think she is so beautiful! I absolutely love my two Silkies

 

[Rmills29]

My heart is broken, I never wanted chickens they were my husbands idea/hobby and I thought he was nuts. 2 years ago we got our first 5 girls (red/black sexlink & barred rock) it's fun watching them grow and develop their own personalities. A year later we got 4 silkie chicks 3 of which ended up being roosters we couldn't keep due to living within city limits. We did everything we knew to make her apart of the flock they just never accepted her. So when we got our next to hens (buff & Americana) we put them together hoping they would become their own group. Well they were fine then we started noticing the older they got the more they started picking on our silkie as well. She learned to stay out of their way. She was broody most the time and they would get beside her in the nesting box and lay eggs she slept next to them. We never expected to find her dead today. My heart is in pieces she loved us and we let her down. It makes angry at the other girls. I never imagined I'd be so hurt over losing a chicken but she was such a sweetheart.I was thinking about bringing her inside crazy enough..