Silkie thread!

[Sylvester017]

Congratulations! So exciting! I'm pretty new to them so I don't have much experience to share with you. My first Silkie was a singleton, I had no idea that they don't do well alone. He (didn't know at the time that he was a he) did fine for the first couple of months and then started acting depressed and wouldn't hang out with the other chickens anymore, choosing to stay off by himself. I was really concerned that he was getting sick. It was then that I learned that he needed a buddy or two and I was in a frantic search to find him one. It was towards the end of summer so I had a hard finding any. It took me at least week and almost a 2 hour drive but mission accomplished, I found 2 friends for him and now all is right in his world. So my advice to you with my limited experience with the breed is to get two or three together, at the same time. When I found someone that still had silkies available she said she won't even sell just one, it's a minimum of two.

X2 !!!

 

[Sylvester017]

BLUE???

Blue is kinda a diluted Black -- looks gray and very pretty in Silkie bantams.


In Large Fowl breeds this is the Blue coloring - they usually have darker neck hackles and dark edging on outside of each blue feather:

Blue Ameraucana juvenile


Blue Ameraucana juvenile


Blue Breda pullet


Blue Breda - dark head/hackles, dark outside edging on blue body feathers

 

[Chickensfan]

my pretty lady, Susie. this is her first winter!
i have another silkie that has gone broody. she is adorable!

 

[summerb123]

 

[kellyloveschad]

Can anyone help me with what is the best thing to put in my run area so my silkies stop needing a bath?? right now I have organic mulch but since I have be locking them in because of my hawk
issues this is a every day thing!!! It is dry in the run every morning when I let them out but they dig until they find mud!! Apparently my silkies think they are pigs and want to look like one to!!

 

[cosmosue]

Omg mud face ^ lol it's killing me lol !!! I'm sorry I don't know why your birds would do this, my Sophie (salmon fav) looked like this for past few days but it's been rainy outside lol and she seems to like mud as well. The rest of my large hen flock has kept clean (somehow)

 

[summerb123]

Omg mud face ^ lol it's killing me lol !!! I'm sorry I don't know why your birds would do this, my Sophie (salmon fav) looked like this for past few days but it's been rainy outside lol and she seems to like mud as well. The rest of my large hen flock has kept clean (somehow)

it rain for 3 days straight and my girls and guy are a big ball of mud lol!

I've seen my chickens even worse than they look now lol! Once It rained for like 2 weeks off and on and and my chickens had mud balls stuck on them! I had to cut them off with scissors lol

 

[greenbeetle]

I have a broody silkie hen with 7 babies that are 5 weeks old, she has started sparing with them and kind of chasing them, does this mean she is tired of raising them. Or is she just playing with them. She still calls them for food and things, it has just been the last couple of days I have noticed this.

 

[cosmosue]

Haha! I just went out and checked mine it's stopped now but the run area is like total mud, the pen area is covered so it's nice and dry, but they are still looking muddy especially Sophie her beard is def not white right now!!! Lol[QUOTE="summerb123, post: 17824803, member: 420452"]

it rain  for 3 days straight and my girls and guy are a big ball of mud lol! :hide I've seen my chickens even worse than they look now lol! Once It rained for like 2 weeks off and on and and my chickens had mud balls stuck on them! I had to cut them off with scissors lol
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[cosmosue]

The image didn't work the first time lol her beard should be white with brown flecks! Lol!!