Silkie thread!

[maralpz2006]

My first slkie

 

[maralpz2006]

I have never seen silkie with single com thats the reason i dont like silkie and bantam but the one is big and single com

 

[Michelle Guynn]

I took my Emma to pet smart and Starbucks today. She was a big hit with everyone.

Pet smart has coupons for free bags of dog and cat food.

 

[Mamadolittle3]

Don't know if this is the right place, but grateful for anyone's opinion. Don't know the parentage, but ideas on what color this chick may be? The wings are grey with white stripes.

 

[moomoodiddy]

I have never seen silkie with single com thats the reason i dont like silkie and bantam but the one is big and single com

Why are you on this thread then?

 

[maralpz2006]

Because some silkie can have single comb

 

[Hinotori]

Because some silkie can have single comb

Only if some other breed was bred in the line to get it. It's a fairly common fault with hatchery birds that haven't been well bred. In good quality birds, the recessive single comb came from using other breeds to introduce new colors into the breed. Serious breeders aim to get rid of it.

The body shape of that bird looks off to me. Looks more like one of my hatchery brown layers.

It has no crest at all, which even silkie crosses have a bit of. Very poor leg feathering.

I'd say it's a mix that had a silkie ancestor only as recently as the grandparent generation. Both parents would have had to carry the recessive silkie feathering. Keeping the black skin is easy in crosses.

 

[Sylvester017]

I've lost 5 birds this past year and have only a Partridge Silkie and Cuckoo Breda left outdoors. Lost my 6-yr-old sweet spunky Black Silkie pullet today. She was our smallest, smartest, spunkiest little chicken and I miss her so much. She had a large rubbery egg stuck to her vent so I soaked her in warm water to soften it but I didn't pull on it since we saw some bleeding. We wrapped her up in a towel immediately and rushed to the vet. The egg was softened enough to come apart in the vet's hand but her ovaries were stuck outside the vent and there was a bleeding ovarian tumor. Two weeks ago she had layed a single large hard rubbery egg and no more eggs so I knew then it wasn't a good sign. We decided to euthanize her at the vet's office. I can't stop my watery eyes!

She was our spunkiest funniest girl but my problem child having to be treated for respiratory issues which she was prone to having at least once a year, she lost a couple toes from scratching too hard in nest boxes, she never really was a peaceful egg layer in all her years but would complain loudly each time before she layed -- bottom photo is of her large hard rubbery egg from two weeks ago. It's so hard losing a long-time pet -- especially one that managed to survive so many prior health issues. We figured she'd be spunky and tough enough to live forever!

 

[Hinotori]

I've lost 5 birds this past year and have only a Partridge Silkie and Cuckoo Breda left outdoors. Lost my 6-yr-old sweet spunky Black Silkie pullet today. She was our smallest, smartest, spunkiest little chicken and I miss her so much. She had a large rubbery egg stuck to her vent so I soaked her in warm water to soften it but I didn't pull on it since we saw some bleeding. We wrapped her up in a towel immediately and rushed to the vet. The egg was softened enough to come apart in the vet's hand but her ovaries were stuck outside the vent and there was a bleeding ovarian tumor. Two weeks ago she had layed a single large hard rubbery egg and no more eggs so I knew then it wasn't a good sign. We decided to euthanize her at the vet's office. I can't stop my watery eyes!

She was our spunkiest funniest girl but my problem child having to be treated for respiratory issues which she was prone to having at least once a year, she lost a couple toes from scratching too hard in nest boxes, she never really was a peaceful egg layer in all her years but would complain loudly each time before she layed -- bottom photo is of her large hard rubbery egg from two weeks ago. It's so hard losing a long-time pet -- especially one that managed to survive so many prior health issues. We figured she'd be spunky and tough enough to live forever!
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I'm so sorry. They really are sweet pets and it hurts to lose them.

 

[Sylvester017]

Yep, Silkies are sweet and so-o-o different from other breeds. No matter what a chicken is for -- meat, eggs, or pets -- the result is the same. It's easy to get attached to them and miss them terribly when they're gone! Silkies can live 8 to 12 yrs on average and I was hoping to have my funny 6-yr-old Black hen around for at least a couple more years. She was such a spunky pistol!

I was worried about having too many chickens when we picked up our 3 new Dominique chicks earlier this month but now I'm glad we did. Otherwise we'd only have two adult chickens left. The 3 new Dom chicks will bring our chickens back up to 5 girls allowed in our zone. Hope I don't lose any more birds. Losing 5 chickens in less than a year is hard to take when all we're zoned for is 5 hens/no roos.

The 3 new Dom chicks will be eventually added to the Partridge Silkie and Cuckoo Breda in the outside flock -- I don't like raising chicks, prefer older juveniles, but this was the only way to get Dominiques locally so I have to keep the itty bitty chicks indoors for a few weeks: