Silkie thread!

[workinnanie]

This little silkie was hatched May 20th. I am wondering what color it is & any guesses on male/ female? Thanks
!

 

[jnjmanning]

Does anyone know of a breeder on the East Coast of Cuckoo Silkies?

I have a friend in PA, he has beautiful cuckoos also.

 

[moomoodiddy]

I have a theory on "Chickens and baths".  I have noticed a lot of people say their chickens want to sleep after a bath - or they are "grumpy" or they "sulk" for a day. They also warn about chickens drowning because they won't keep their head up and will put it down in a sink full of warm water and die.

I think if you look at chickens in the wilds - you will find there is only one time when they are held and rubbed and warm and wet - that is when they are being attacked by a predator.  Chickens are prey animals - so they have developed a mechanism to deal with being eaten alive - they go into shock so they don't feel anything.   It may also help for survival because some predators won't eat unmoving "bodies" so it may have helped some to survive the initial mauling.  So when you first bathe a chicken - it will fight -- and when it looses it will go into shock.

After being bathed a few times the chicken will stop doing this (they have learned they survive it), but the first few times are very traumatic on them - so I would treat them for shock and they will recover more quickly.  Electrolytes in the water, sugar water, etc... and give them a chance to recover. 

Brillant! way to go for conecting those dots

 

[moomoodiddy]

Here is a wooden plaque I painted or a lady in Michigan I love painting animals! Especially silkies

 

[Jharper]

Here is a wooden plaque I painted or a lady in Michigan I love painting animals! Especially silkies

Beautiful! Buff, black, and a paint is what I see. LOL! I want one!

 

[RockerHen]

Two more chicks hatched, a vaulted and non vaulted. One more egg to go. I'm willing to bet the nonvaulted is a roo. That's the general pattern it seems in my birds.

On a less wonderful note, I noticed one incubating egg died (air cell looked way off) so I decided to do an eggtopsy and I found this poor thing. I'll put the picture in the spoiler thing so those who don't want to see it don't have to. As you can see, it had a pretty huge vault, and a large lump on the back of the neck. Further examination revealed that the vault was just the brain, but the bulge on the neck was mostly bloody thick fluid coming from the base of the skull. It was very close to hatching, already absorbed the yolk. Could it be possible that it pressed it's head against the shell too hard while shifting to hatch, causing the swelling and resultant herniation? Poor baby.

 

[Jharper]

Going to get my new roo!!

 

[workinnanie]

Very nice painting of the three silkies harper!

 

[workinnanie]

Beautiful little babies Rocker Hen!

 

[Jharper]

Very nice painting of the three silkies harper!

Ohhh I didn't do that. I was just saying that I wanted one.
Any whooooo I got my new roo!! We are about to go through chick fila with a silkie in my hands! LOL!