Silkie thread!

[KBHatchery]

 

[RustyHen]

This is my sweet Paint named Spot. Due to his posture and his rapid comb growth I am pretty sure he is a he. Very sweet boy. I am looking for a nice black hen to add to my coop now.

What a sweet looking wee one.

 

[KBHatchery]

 

[peepblessed]

My dad found me a couple on his route that have buff silkies that look just like this and he's getting me hatching eggs from them! So excited they should be old enough for show by the time it comes around!

Gorgeous!

I used to have a brown silkie named Chewbacca, now I have a little buff hen named Elko! This is my baby Elko pictured below!
She is a little over a month old now! She is adorable! By the way this is my copyright for my photography!

Beautiful photo!

Ok silkie fans, I finally took the plunge and got myself some silkies!!

They are about 10 weeks old and absolutely adorable!

Why didn't I do this sooner??

Here are some pictures of two of them, Princess Poof & Princess Peach, I am hoping for girls....

What do you guys think? Pullets? And how about color, what would you call them?

Princess Poof




Princess Peach




Group shot


Thanks in advance!!

The mystery of poly-vi-sol.

Yes, why didn't you do this sooner??

Looks like Poof is a splash and Peach a porcelain, I think. Cute babies.

Poof actually reminds me of my little splash, One Eyed Bandit, I had last year. He somehow managed to get himself in with the turkeys when he was a couple weeks old and got pecked. Lost vision in his right eye, the poor thing. But he was the sweetest little chick.

I'm wondering if Poof is a boy...? Very hard to tell, they're still young. Hopefully I'm wrong!

I agree!

I guess I had the exception to that rule... One hen I had never went broody, but if I put her next to some guinea keets, turkeys, duck and even chickens she would raise them. The first few hours of introducing them were supervised, but we never had an issue when it came to her raising them. She would always cluck that motherly cluck and every baby came running. Sadly I lost her to a hawk earlier this year, she wasn't the prettest bird I owned, but she was my favorite!

This was Ms. Rumpy.

What a treasure. So sorry you lost her...

This is my sweet Paint named Spot. Due to his posture and his rapid comb growth I am pretty sure he is a he. Very sweet boy. I am looking for a nice black hen to add to my coop now.

Beautiful!

 

[silkiechick93]

I've posted pictures of my Silkie chick here a couple of days ago, found out she was pet quality..I've owned her for a month now and I was wondering if anyone could give me tips on sexing her..I've probably jinxed myself by calling it a her and it's probably a roo, but oh well..I'm not really getting any answers anywhere else I've posted so this is kind of my last resort, any tips?

 

[sheeshshe]

Well, my non dominant roo looks much happier today without Boy George in the pen with them. Although George hangs out by the fence that divides both runs. Snowcone has been going around the run doing chickeny things instead of laying there in a corner all day long. I am hoping that he continues to improve and gets well again. Hoping he'll feel confident in himself enough to take on the girls LOL

 

[sheeshshe]

Does anyone know if I can unite him with my pullet every so often to keep her fertile until the other roo gets with it? I mean, would they tolerate each other?

 

[NOLA Chicks]

My pullet (she's the one that has a brain issue) hatched her 4 turkey babies perfectly and is now being such a good new mother, feeding her chicks and being protective of them, even though they're not even her species

that's what I love about these birds, they're so accepting of any babies, even if they're not their own. The babies are soooo cute. The two brownish ones were quite a surprise, so far I've only hatched white chicks from my pair (hen is a royal palm, tom is a red bronze, created by a royal palm/bourbon red cross). I love their tiny fuzzy snoods

I love, love, love this picture!!! Precious.

I love silkies! I put my 6 week olds out last night and wondered if my 5mo would treat them well if I put them in the new coop together. I thought it was a good time to see since its a new place for them both. Gee, I never thought they would get along so well! She looks like a little mama with her chicks. Sooo freaking adorable! She didn't even mind them jumping up an getting a taste of her FF beard! I just love silkie personalities! THey will be stuck in their coop for a few days until our pen project gets finnished up this weekend. I'll post pics of the progression. It's under our 8 x 16' deck.

This is great news. I have 6 chicks that are about 2 weeks old now and 3 pullets that are 4 months old. I think I'll try the same thing in a month and see if it works as well for my flock as it did for yours.

This is by far the silliest chick I have ever met! She's been burrowing in my hair, trying to type on my keyboard with me, running around me like a maniac, and eating my shirt... all with her little purple booties on! =D

AAAAAANNNNDDDD... now we're pooped

She's so darn cute with her little purple booties.

I used to have a brown silkie named Chewbacca, now I have a little buff hen named Elko! This is my baby Elko pictured below!
She is a little over a month old now! She is adorable! By the way this is my copyright for my photography!

Great photo. Elko is adorable.

Quote: Sorry for your loss. Ms. Rumpy sounds like she was a terrific hen.

 

[NOLA Chicks]

I could use some advice. I have a paint chick that doesn't seem to be growing. I bought her along with 5 other chicks and they are all about 2 weeks old now. They were near the same size when I got them but now there's a big difference between her and the others. Here's picture of her with the other paint of the same age.


Pipsqueak is the chick I posted about last week with pasty butt. She's still getting pb regularly. I check her at least x2 each day and gently clean her up as needed.
She's eating and drinking and her droppings appear normal. I caught her 'in the act' yesterday and saw that the dropping was normal but never dropped off. It just hung there so I know now that things are just hanging there and drying in place. Any ideas?

 

[Lisa and girls]

I could use some advice. I have a paint chick that doesn't seem to be growing. I bought her along with 5 other chicks and they are all about 2 weeks old now. They were near the same size when I got them but now there's a big difference between her and the others. Here's picture of her with the other paint of the same age. Pipsqueak is the chick I posted about last week with pasty butt. She's still getting pb regularly. I check her at least x2 each day and gently clean her up as needed. She's eating and drinking and her droppings appear normal. I caught her 'in the act' yesterday and saw that the dropping was normal but never dropped off. It just hung there so I know now that things are just hanging there and drying in place. Any ideas?

Try rubbing olive oil on her butt. Worked for my little one.