Silkie thread!

[PaintedFeathers]

Okay... I really don't know how I am related to my family! Just found out, via facebook, my aunt brought her 6 year old son to the ER and is waiting there now... to remove a tick from his head!

 

[Suzierd]

My new baby has booties now too =P She has bumblefoot.

Aww blue boots, they look comfy. I hope she heels up fast for you.

 

[Suzierd]

Okay... I really don't know how I am related to my family! Just found out, via facebook, my aunt brought her 6 year old son to the ER and is waiting there now... to remove a tick from his head!

That's going to be one expensive tick!

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Aww blue boots, they look comfy. I hope she heels up fast for you.

They are purple

I told the woman to give me a girly color like pink but this is all she had lol.

That's going to be one expensive tick!

yeah and when I told her it wasn't necessary she said "Kayla, lyme disease!"

... So I told her they have to be attached for over 4 hours to transfer lyme disease, so she said "well it must have been there for more than 4 hours because it was burried!

So I told her ticks don't burrow. When they bite, their saliva acts like concrete to hold them in and the body reacts by swelling. You would know if he was going to get lyme disease because there would be a red ring around the area. ugg...

 

[seclusionfarms]

My fuffy butts lol

 

[sheeshshe]

actually the red ring only shows in about 50% of the cases

 

[hunter319]

I got a white silkie yesterday and she is in her own pen with fertile eggs of my golden sebrights in hopes she will go broody.all she did was jump up in down in the pen but I didn't get to sit with her much yesterday or today for very long like I would normally do.today when I got off work I noticed that the other chickens were being mean to her.should I just leave her in her own pen in the coop with the eggs and wait will she stop trying to jump and fly but there's no where for to go it's a nice cage and everything.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

actually the red ring only shows in about 50% of the cases

Still, the emergency room wasn't necessary =P

 

[RockerHen]

I got a white silkie yesterday and she is in her own pen with fertile eggs of my golden sebrights in hopes she will go broody.all she did was jump up in down in the pen but I didn't get to sit with her much yesterday or today for very long like I would normally do.today when I got off work I noticed that the other chickens were being mean to her.should I just leave her in her own pen in the coop with the eggs and wait will she stop trying to jump and fly but there's no where for to go it's a nice cage and everything.

If you just got her yesterday she probably isn't going to be broody right away, maybe in a month or more. Yes, silkies are known for their broodiness, but a move is stressful and chickens don't go broody when they're stressed or in a new environment. Also, you can't make a bird go broody (some silkies even never go broody), it's just a decision they have to make. I wouldn't waste fertile eggs waiting for her to be broody. Put some dummy eggs with her. If she decides to do broody on them, then put the eggs you want hatched in there. I would recommend keeping her in her own pen, for her safety if the others are bullying her.

 

[Jharper]

I've had my silkie for 8 months now and I she has not gone broody yet. I have been letting he and my cochin build up a clutch and right now there are 13 eggs and my cochin is about to go broody b/c she has been layering the nest with her feathers. Today she and cotton, the silkie, were sounding a lot like broodies, but weren't sitting. Any ideas on what's happening?