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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.
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Alrighty, thank you very much. He ended up rolling through some poo in the process so he got a bath which he rather enjoyed!
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I got 6 silkies from an auction last spring... only one left. They don't seem to be too smart and i have had a lot of trouble getting them to perch. Now that my one hen is alone she has started perching.

Anyone else have a problem like this?
This is my last silkie named Daisy.
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I have a rooster Silkie. Can I breed him as he is about 2.5? Can he live in the pen safely with a hen? Can he breed with other breeds?
Any help for this newbie.
Thanks.
 
Lamaremybabies said:
Alrighty, thank you very much. He ended up rolling through some poo in the process so he got a bath which he rather enjoyed!
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Chickens love to feel a breeze through their feathers -- especially after a warm bath. My Silkie would tap on the fan when she wanted me to turn it on and then she would stand in front of it to feel it ruffle her "fur."



kellyloveschad said:
good thing my husband works first shift!!! It was -25 when I let the chickens in the run so I brought them and put them in the shower!!! lol




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Good to keep the Silkies safe! Cover the shower drain or else the chicken feed will clog the drain or worse like happened to us, the seeds sprouted under the drain pipe and clogged it up where we never saw it until the water wouldn't drain any more. Gross to clean it up.
 
beakerchicks said:
I got 6 silkies from an auction last spring... only one left. They don't seem to be too smart and i have had a lot of trouble getting them to perch. Now that my one hen is alone she has started perching.

Anyone else have a problem like this?
This is my last silkie named Daisy.
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Your Daisy is so pretty!
Silkies are not usually perch sleepers. They're kinda pile-on-the-floor together type of sleepers or they'll sleep in a nestbox. Some use the perch but many don't. Mine have been nestbox sleepers since their first day with us but I don't mind:
 
Oh man I haven't been on this thread for a while. I just had a blast scrolling down seeing all of those beautiful birds. I just had a really good hatch. Had 16 eggs go into lockdown. 14 are in the brooder! Here is a picture of a couple. One is almost White that is a splash... Pretty sure. And also a picture of a blue that looks ornery front on... But it has the sweetest eyes from looking at it at the side.
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I'm going to try to send a couple of photos on this. Still trying to figure out my new phone!
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and now for the blue I hope. LOL the blues face just cracks me up
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