Silkie thread!

[moomoodiddy]

silkies aren't the smartest birds in the world lol

 

[Fancychooklady]

silkies aren't the smartest birds in the world lol

No, but they are the cutest!

 

[blipit007]

Brought Cindy Lou Who and Clarice out for a photoshoot

Cindy had a blast, but Clarice was a bit camera shy

lol

This photo rocks!

I got the idea for these feeders from one of these threads. They work well.

Are they just a straight pipe?

 

[ESofVA]

Do you raise silkies? And where are you in VA? Just curious cuz I am in VA too.

And where r you located? I also live in VA on the Eastern Shore.

 

[blipit007]

So my sweet innocent Marbles is acting like a teenage brat! She is the sweetest thing around, runs to me, snuggles, coos at me... Yeah, so yesterday she pecked at me kinda hard twice in a row. OK... then today, I had the chance to pet Andy, my EE because she squatted for me (also happens to be Marbles best friend) and Marbles took a leap feet first at my hand! WTH! I picked Marbles us and she settled down as usual closing her eyes and snuggling. Then I put her down and tried to pet the RIR, which Marbles could care less about, (actually has been picking on Marbles lately) and Marbles got upset and pecked at my hand as I was petting her.

Then I cleaned the coop, all the while, all the girls, (both top and bottom of the pecking order) were pecking each other. Then I realized that their hanging feeder hadn't dropped any fresh food.

What gives? Is Marbles hitting puberty at almost 5 months and is gonna be a brat? Or is she just jealous of me giving attention to someone else?






This is Lucielle. Used to be cool, now she doesn't like being touched. Now picking on Marbles every now and then.


This is Andy, Marbles best friend.

 

[blipit007]

Oh, and not silkie related, but we rescued a kitten 2 weeks ago off the side of the road being ambushed by crows. Only 6 weeks old, weren't gonna keep him, but fell in love. Meet Trouble! Looks just like Noodle our other kitty.

 

[destiny_56085]

So my sweet innocent Marbles is acting like a teenage brat! She is the sweetest thing around, runs to me, snuggles, coos at me... Yeah, so yesterday she pecked at me kinda hard twice in a row. OK... then today, I had the chance to pet Andy, my EE because she squatted for me (also happens to be Marbles best friend) and Marbles took a leap feet first at my hand! WTH! I picked Marbles us and she settled down as usual closing her eyes and snuggling. Then I put her down and tried to pet the RIR, which Marbles could care less about, (actually has been picking on Marbles lately) and Marbles got upset and pecked at my hand as I was petting her.

Then I cleaned the coop, all the while, all the girls, (both top and bottom of the pecking order) were pecking each other. Then I realized that their hanging feeder hadn't dropped any fresh food.

What gives? Is Marbles hitting puberty at almost 5 months and is gonna be a brat? Or is she just jealous of me giving attention to someone else?






This is Lucielle. Used to be cool, now she doesn't like being touched. Now picking on Marbles every now and then.


This is Andy, Marbles best friend.

These are chickens... They are livestock and not humans. Expecting them to act like humans is unrealistic. As you said the feeder hadn't dropped any feed. They were probably just hungry and trying to find something to eat. If that means fighting a flock member for it, it happens. I've personally never had luck combining silkies with largefowl, some do...

 

[chickeneer45]

Mechanicsville; near Richmond

 

[Kimmi500]

Mechanicsville; near Richmond

We are pretty close, I am in Fredericksburg

 

[Urchin]

So my sweet innocent Marbles is acting like a teenage brat! She is the sweetest thing around, runs to me, snuggles, coos at me... Yeah, so yesterday she pecked at me kinda hard twice in a row. OK... then today, I had the chance to pet Andy, my EE because she squatted for me (also happens to be Marbles best friend) and Marbles took a leap feet first at my hand! WTH! I picked Marbles us and she settled down as usual closing her eyes and snuggling. Then I put her down and tried to pet the RIR, which Marbles could care less about, (actually has been picking on Marbles lately) and Marbles got upset and pecked at my hand as I was petting her.

Then I cleaned the coop, all the while, all the girls, (both top and bottom of the pecking order) were pecking each other. Then I realized that their hanging feeder hadn't dropped any fresh food.

What gives? Is Marbles hitting puberty at almost 5 months and is gonna be a brat? Or is she just jealous of me giving attention to someone else?






This is Lucielle. Used to be cool, now she doesn't like being touched. Now picking on Marbles every now and then.


This is Andy, Marbles best friend.

Mine will peck at me when a food or water container is empty. Maybe it's to tell me it needs to be filled; maybe it's because they're cranky that they can't get feed/water at that particular container. They do get very upset when their routine is changed, like if I let them out of the coop later in the morning than usual, or lock them out of the coop to clean it when they know it's normally open for their use, etc., so maybe they consider a lack of food or water at a certain container a change in routine.