Silkie thread!

[laseterlass]

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Bruce Lee hatched yesterday. A surprise egg in with bantam chocolate orps. We are enamored.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

I want to have some on hand- but I can't find any! Have looked at Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, grocery stores.

We just don't have it in the Chattanooga area that I can find. Maybe, I'll try Babies-Are-Us

Pam

Day 2 was not so good. She is more easily distressed when she wants to move around and can't. I got the selenium. She will periodically hold her head up, but now she's more or less laying with her head upside down all the time.

Has anyone used prednisone? I am loathe to kill her immune system, but outside of seeing an improvement soon, I feel like I'm running out of options.

Anyone have a suggested dosage for asprin? I have the low dose and wonder if some pain relief might help.

It just makes me soooo sad to see her like this.

Did you also buy vitamin e? Selenium and vitamin E need to go hand in hand. Not sure about the aspirin, I wouldn't do it. You could always gently massage her neck up and down.

 

[Lisa and girls]

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Bruce Lee hatched yesterday. A surprise egg in with bantam chocolate orps. We are enamored.

Just adorable!!!! What a good surprise!!!

 

[marney410]

Adorable!

 

[Tikkijane]

Did you also buy vitamin e? Selenium and vitamin E need to go hand in hand. Not sure about the aspirin, I wouldn't do it. You could always gently massage her neck up and down.

Yes, of course.

I know the vit E won't absorb well without the selenium, so that was what I went with. I also got some electrolytes for the water based on someone else's experience. I don't think it will hurt. At this point, she is really fighting the neck placement when I try to help her get it upright. *sigh*

 

[Tikkijane]

I just noticed yesterday that three out of my four 3 week old Silkie chicks are growing single combs, while only the fourth is growing a walnut comb. One of the single-combed chicks has drawn my attention further in the fact that it is growing a considerably larger comb and is as large as the fourth Silkie chick that is three or four days older (not sure if three or four days makes much of a difference; it is larger and has more feathering).
Would you say it's a cockerel? I know it is rather young for sexing Silkies, but this prominent comb is making me wonder.

(In the picture below, the large-combed chick is on the left)

Fwiw, they are not supposed to have a single comb; only the walnut. The guy who I got this batch from had one roo with a single comb, which he didn't realize until I pointed it out. Just tells me something else got mixed in somewhere down the line..... the walnut on the one would tell me roo possibly, but if something else is mixed in, who knows.

 

[JacqueOCS]

Just adorable!!!! What a good surprise!!!

What a cutie!!

 

[beckyb1971]

This is my daughter with her silkie bama

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Fwiw, they are not supposed to have a single comb; only the walnut. The guy who I got this batch from had one roo with a single comb, which he didn't realize until I pointed it out. Just tells me something else got mixed in somewhere down the line..... the walnut on the one would tell me roo possibly, but if something else is mixed in, who knows.

The one on the left will probably be a cockerel. But you don't want to breed the single comb chick at all or it will pass on and it's a defect.

 

[Momma 2 silkies]

Just wanted to share a few pictures of my babies. These are from my own flock and couldn't be happier.