Silkie thread!

[aoxa]

STOP STANDING OUTSIDE! Crazy silkies.. Took a good inch of snow before they finally decided it wasn't so much fun to stand out in the terrible weather.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

STOP STANDING OUTSIDE! Crazy silkies.. Took a good inch of snow before they finally decided it wasn't so much fun to stand out in the terrible weather.

This is why I didn't let my banties out until noonish today. I was afraid they would do similar and get soaked. So what eventually happened you ask? One of my Silkie boys ran down the ramp, stopped dead on the bottom rung, looked around at the snow still around the front of the coop and then turned his behind around and hopped back into the coop! None of the others even tried to come out. They poked their beaks out the door, cocked their heads and went back to doing whatever they were doing before I opened the door.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Lol! Isabelle, my pet-quality silkie hen stands out in pouring rain for about 5 minutes before deciding it's time to go in the nice, warm coop that we've provided for them.

 

[aoxa]

This is why I didn't let my banties out until noonish today. I was afraid they would do similar and get soaked. So what eventually happened you ask? One of my Silkie boys ran down the ramp, stopped dead on the bottom rung, looked around at the snow still around the front of the coop and then turned his behind around and hopped back into the coop! None of the others even tried to come out. They poked their beaks out the door, cocked their heads and went back to doing whatever they were doing before I opened the door.

I didn't realize there was a storm coming today before I opened the coop. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. They all pretty much stayed in from 10am - closing

 

[Sanna]

My rooster (bantam cochin) loves chicks. He feeds them and takes care of them almost better than the mommas do

Our two silkie roosters take good care of the babies also! Especially the splash one that's a bit of a crabby patty but he looooves those babies! I loved watching all of them when the chicks were really little. As soon as you dropped food on the ground the rooster would go running over, pick up some food and call the babies. It's hysterical.

Now the chicks are almost 5 months old. No more "Daddy Daycare"...

STOP STANDING OUTSIDE!

Crazy silkies.. Took a good inch of snow before they finally decided it wasn't so much fun to stand out in the terrible weather.

They're all nuts!

Mine do it all the time... I don't understand why. lo

 

[RockerHen]

STOP STANDING OUTSIDE! Crazy silkies.. Took a good inch of snow before they finally decided it wasn't so much fun to stand out in the terrible weather.

My chickens aren't as bad about this as my turkeys are! They simply refuse to go into their perfectly warm house. Instead, they try to perch on top of the the gate to their pen, outside, in the pouring rain. When I go to move them into their coop, they jump down and run into it themselves! I don't understand those crazy birds. It's like they forget they have a coop until they see me walking towards them.

 

[aoxa]

STOP STANDING OUTSIDE! Crazy silkies.. Took a good inch of snow before they finally decided it wasn't so much fun to stand out in the terrible weather.

My chickens aren't as bad about this as my turkeys are! They simply refuse to go into their perfectly warm house. Instead, they try to perch on top of the the gate to their pen, outside, in the pouring rain. When I go to move them into their coop, they jump down and run into it themselves! I don't understand those crazy birds. It's like they forget they have a coop until they see me walking towards them.

There is something serene about the turkeys in the snow though. My tom just gleamed!

but my ducks.. they whined like little children who are being rounded up at the McDonalds playplace.

 

[debs_flock]

I thought I'd share my two paint babies. They're about seven weeks old and just got moved to a growout pen in the shed.



I just hatched out six more paints, four of them SG's. I just love the spots!

Deb

 

[RockerHen]

I wish it would snow here. Highly unlikely considering the outside temp right now is 64. It's pretty muggy actually. So humid and rainy.

 

[Mumsy]

Glad to hear your silkies are doing well

At least I can find you around here

How many more eggs in the incubator, and are they all silkies? You went from one rooster, to many birds in what seems like a day!

I attended the Washington Feather Fanciers show a month ago and bought Johnny's pullets and Silkie hatching eggs at that time. I did go from one chicken to ten birds counting the five little new Silkie babies. Most of the eggs were infertile or some other problem. The five babies are healthy and at 30 hours old doing awesome. There are five Bantam RIR eggs in lock down right now. My old incubator is fussy and I never count my chicks before they are hatched. Hah!

So ten birds with a possible five more. Compared to one bird that is "many" I guess. My barn and coop can handle 200. Though I don't plan on having that many again any time soon.