Silkie thread!

[kellyloveschad]

Brahmas are usually docile gentle temperament birds so not surprised they get along with your Silkies. I found Ameraucana and Breda two very docile breeds, and not too big, to have around gentle Silkies. I'm not zoned for roos but understand they are good peace keepers.

I found out after I got the chickens I have to have five acres to have chickens I only have one!! I will be in trouble either way I hatch them from a egg so I am keeping the all!! I am looking into ways
around it and one is 4-h which I think he may be my best beat because he's beautiful!!

 

[kellyloveschad]

Brahmas are usually docile gentle temperament birds so not surprised they get along with your Silkies. I found Ameraucana and Breda two very docile breeds, and not too big, to have around gentle Silkies. I'm not zoned for roos but understand they are good peace keepers.

 

[kellyloveschad]

Brahmas are usually docile gentle temperament birds so not surprised they get along with your Silkies. I found Ameraucana and Breda two very docile breeds, and not too big, to have around gentle Silkies. I'm not zoned for roos but understand they are good peace keepers.

 

[cutipatooti]

Here are a few pics of my chicks I hatched last weekend.

 

[rohan eggs]

 

[rohan eggs]

Any ideas on gender

 

[cutipatooti]

Any ideas on gender

It's really hard to tell for sure on silkies. I think it needs to grow up a bit more before we can have a guess.

 

[Girlywelder]

Nope, the plastic animals do not fool living animals.  A stuffed life-like fox was used to roll by the outside of a chainlink chicken pen and the chickens didn't blink an eye at it!  Once chickens see a plastic owl that doesn't fly away they don't pay attention to it either.  Neither do the sparrows that sit on the plastic owl's head!

My husband had me to watch that last night on YouTube...

 

[Lamaremybabies]

So I think my silkie roo just had a seizure, is that possible?

I let my chickens out of their house this morning and everyone came our fine, he then walked to the run door and was leaning against it then dropped and started flapping his wings on his side and when he stopped was completely limp and unresponsive. He was also breathing really heavily. I put him in the house and closed it thinking that maybe he was sick and dying but I went inside and told my father went back out to check on him and he was standing normally, and talking/crowing like nothing happened.

Any advise? My dad thinks he may have a respiratory infection but the way he acted seemed a little extreme for that plus he's breathing fine now.

 

[Sylvester017]

So I think my silkie roo just had a seizure, is that possible?

I let my chickens out of their house this morning and everyone came our fine, he then walked to the run door and was leaning against it then dropped and started flapping his wings on his side and when he stopped was completely limp and unresponsive. He was also breathing really heavily. I put him in the house and closed it thinking that maybe he was sick and dying but I went inside and told my father went back out to check on him and he was standing normally, and talking/crowing like nothing happened.

Any advise? My dad thinks he may have a respiratory infection but the way he acted seemed a little extreme for that plus he's breathing fine now.

Since he's recovered, use Rooster Booster chicken vitamins in the chicken feed for all the chickens, and 2 or 3x/week put a drop of no-iron children's Poly-Vi-Sol vitamin on the side of the chicken beak to lick up the drop. Add Selenium powder very slightly into organic cooked brown rice or cooked oatmeal or whatever food the chickens like. These should all be helpful nutritionally. I keep a vet already lined up for poultry emergencies if I should need him. Keep your guy nutritionally supplemented with vitamins because there's not enough vits consumed in ordinary feed.