Silkie thread!

[PaintedFeathers]

I don't like the look of that rooster, but the hen is cute Hard to tell type of the hen by the picture. Her wings look nice, and her colour too.

The rooster looks like it has big red wattles. It could be something else, it's so small it's hard to tell.

Those don't look like wattles, but a part of the fencing behind him.

 

[aoxa]

Picture's a little blurry, this is way zoomed in because I didn't want to startle them, but this is my rooster mothering some turkey poults who were a little chilled in the evening air.

They snuggled right up to him and he laid down and allowed them to get under his wings. Gotta love sweet silkies!

 

[City farm]

Oh yeah? " Well meet me for tea" as your dog would say.. Exquisite..

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Oh yeah? " Well meet me for tea" as your dog would say..
Exquisite..

Haha she IS quite the drama queen.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

might be going to get a cochin and an araucana chick tomorrow! Gonna see what her breeding stock looks like first, but she said that her breeders won a lot of first and second place ribbons, and her cochin roo took best cock at one show. I just LOVE the look of quality cochins, and araucanas are just so cool and rumpless haha

 

[blipit007]

I'm having a nervous breakdown!!! Help! I'm going away tomorrow to Cape Cod until Tuesday. My 7-8 week old chicks moved to the outside coop last week. For the first few days they had the heat lamp. And for the last 3 nights they did not. I found them huddled up together in one big pig pile in the nesting box in the middle of the night.

Here is the delema. The last few nights it has gotten down to 57-60 degrees and inside the coop was about 68. The next few nights it will drop down into the 40's. I have the ADOR1 automatic door that closes around 8PM so the coop cools down before nightfall, and it is completely in the shade. I really have no place to get the cord to an outlet now that the ADOR1 door is installed...

THE QUESTION IS, will they be ok huddling together throughout the next 4 nights of 40 degrees possibly staying in the 50's in the coop.

Right now it is rainy, breezy, and 56 degrees outside at 11pm and it is not much warmer in the coop. This is how I found them just now... yes there are 6 of them. The silkie is 7 weeks and the rest of the LF are 8 weeks.

 

[blipit007]

You can see the little silkie but bottom left!

 

[heirloomorps]

Snowball started laying this week!

She is a little more than seven months old. I think it helped that we are finally getting some consistent weather unlike the rain-sun-sun-rain pattern we have been having.

Now I just have to figure out which breeding pen to add her to in a month...

 

[SigningChickens]

It's called "The Natural History of the chicken"  You can watch it all on Youtube

Netflix has it too.

 

[chickenL]

Hi I am new here. I just got 4 silkies and one Cochin and one of my silkies died I am so sad!! Anyways my Cochin chick is a little aggressive do you think she is a rooster??