Silkie thread!

[Sylvester017]

To Rockerhen - ADOREABLE!!! Is the baby a Show Girl? SO CUTE!!!

 

[RockerHen]

To Rockerhen - ADOREABLE!!! Is the baby a Show Girl? SO CUTE!!!

Nope, just a regular silkie

I agree, it is certainly a particularly cute baby.

 

[flocknfoal]

Are these chicks going to be buff? Or maybe partridge? The started out looking more buff, but now they seem to be getting more grayish on their backs and multi-colors in the wings.

at 2 days old


And now, at about 12 days old




Thanks!

 

[ESofVA]

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I hope your BROODER is set up safely. Mine caught fire last week and burned my chicks, brooder pen, and an antique dry sink underneath. The smoke and heat damage is so great that the windows, doors, wiring, 2 freezers, and so many other items they have sent 2 men to help my DH inventory. The wall all have to come out, a pod is to come to store the items that can be salvaged and cleaned. A big green dumpster is coming to put in everything else. Fortunately we have good insurance.
My new chicks came in Wed and I have my incubator full of hatching eggs. It is cold here too.  Everything is now in my guest bathroom in a storage tub in our bath tub. The chicks that died in the fire were in there earlier when they were tiny. When they get too big to be inside the house but not big enough to go into the pens, they go in the garage.
I chatted with the owner OF our local SS today and he told me he knew another person that burned their garage COMPLETELY down that way. I ordered a Brinsea Ecoglow 50 last week. I am not taking anymore chances.

WHEN MY CHICKS are small I like having them where I can monitor them more closely.
There are a lot of good reasons for chickens in the household. They aren't any dirtier, smell any worse than many other kinds of pets people have. Wonder how many dogs and cats have "accidents" in the floor?  CHICKENS don't chew or claw furniture. They can live in a cage...so what is the difference? We have cats and dogs. Cleaning up hair and dander is a constant. Yes, I do agree that chicken "dust" can be a real mess to clean up. PERSONALLY, we don't keep pet chickens in the house, but I have brought a favorite bantam a few times to sit in my lap. Actually the other day, I was just wondering why more people don't have one for a pet. Set up a cage for a couple of bantams or even one? They make diapers for them after all. Oh, and I bet they don't smell as bad as ferrets or house mice like the white ones people buy at the pet store for pets. Did you happen to know that they are the same animal??
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So sorry for your loss. I have my lights zip tied in several places to unsure they don't fall. The DH is a fireman and hates the idea of best lamps and lights. He still doesn't like me using them, but has agreed it would take a act of sabotage for one to fall.

I have a Brinsea and love it.


I would not trust the clamps on the lights use something in addition to them.[/quote

I read this and saw a few errors that I needed to correct, so I have. The hanging light is very stable but now that my Brinsea has arrived, I plan to change everything tomorrow. The only reason for the drop light right now is since the chick order was placed a few months ago (and I was afraid if I changed the delivery date that I would not be able to get everything again) and that was before the fire, I didn't think the Brinsea would get here that soon. I received the chick shipment before the Brinsea. Delivery date for it was set for two more weeks...so I was really surprised when it got here in about 4 days!!

 

[RussianChickens]

I have a live in chicken. He's a tad messy but he is a HUGE rooster. He got messed up in early winter and we had to bring him in, then it got too cold for his comb. So he stays in with us. He does not smell and lives in a cage on the back steps leading outside. He comes up to the kitchen every now and then but mostly stays on top of his cage. I just have to vaccine the steps weakly. And it is MUCH easier than hair!

I also have a black SQ silkie and bantam Cochin hen that live indoors at times because I love their company. I have diapers for them. They are so sweet! They are outside in the barn with their matching roosters right now.

I was heart broken that my phoenix and other roos have all sustained terrible frost bite this winter. Temps have been -20 at night for many weeks. Despite the insulated coop they have nip on the wattles and comb. I'm afraid most will have to be butchered. I will give them a chance to be given away for breeding stock first. In the spring when I know how bad the frostbite will be.

 

[emvickrey]

I have had some roos that got frostbite on their combs and wattles and I put neosporin on them and they did fine. I have 1 roo now with frostbite on the tips of his comb. I can't bring him in. He is just so huge and if it wasn't for him his hens wouldn't stay as warm. It's suppose to get warmer, above freezing anyway next week. He will get a break from the frigid cold.

I always wondered how people in Alaska kept their chickens from freezing. I saw a post in a previous page where they don't keep them in the coop when it's so cold. Makes me wonder why I worry so much about mine in winter. Our bad winters we have ice storms. We don't get alot of snow, it's ice we get. So I have to chip my way into all my pens so I carry a long screw driver in my coat pocket. I use the handle to beat the ice off the locks and the screw driver part to pry the doors open. I take the water containers inside and thaw out any water in them then refill with enough water to make them thru the day. I go out a couple times a day to collect eggs and break any ice starting to form back on the water. Normally our winters it will get cold for a few days enough to put on a good freeze then warm up and everything thaws out and the ground gets super muddy. It's like that all winter. So far it's been below freezing for a week straight and next week we're getting a break so I can let my chickens out into their runs to enjoy the warm sun. I can't let anybody free range because the hawks are all over and hungry.

 

[HugginsFarm]

I'm looking to buy silkie chicks or hatching eggs in Arkansas..PM me if you have some for sale! Thanks

 

[Sylvester017]

I have a live in chicken. He's a tad messy but he is a HUGE rooster. He got messed up in early winter and we had to bring him in, then it got too cold for his comb. So he stays in with us. He does not smell and lives in a cage on the back steps leading outside. He comes up to the kitchen every now and then but mostly stays on top of his cage. I just have to vaccine the steps weakly. And it is MUCH easier than hair!

I also have a black SQ silkie and bantam Cochin hen that live indoors at times because I love their company. I have diapers for them. They are so sweet! They are outside in the barn with their matching roosters right now.

I was heart broken that my phoenix and other roos have all sustained terrible frost bite this winter. Temps have been -20 at night for many weeks. Despite the insulated coop they have nip on the wattles and comb. I'm afraid most will have to be butchered. I will give them a chance to be given away for breeding stock first. In the spring when I know how bad the frostbite will be.

So you're the ONE person in the world w/ Pavlovskaja & Russian Cresteds? I think I added a Comment on the Russian Crested page where it says the page will be added to once the breeding starts. Have u started breeding the Russian Crested Hens yet? They look a lot like the Posavina Crested Hens - are they related? I followed the Pavlovskaja arrival page on Greenfire but then it dropped off their website so don't even know what they cost. How did U get Pavlovskaja? Beautiful hens but the breed was kind of reconstituted from 1 fertile cock & some other breed of hen so can they really be called 100% Pavlovskaja or a mix to LOOK like a Pavlovskaja? When u read stories of one lone rooster reconstituting an extinct breed it seens funny to call it a full 100% breed but that's just me. How big are the Russian Cresteds or are you still in the process of experimenting w/ them? I know this is a Silkie page but got so excited to see u w/ Pavlovskaja & Russian Crested Hens listed at the bottom of your post!

 

[RussianChickens]

So you're the ONE person in the world w/ Pavlovskaja & Russian Cresteds? I think I added a Comment on the Russian Crested page where it says the page will be added to once the breeding starts. Have u started breeding the Russian Crested Hens yet? They look a lot like the Posavina Crested Hens - are they related? I followed the Pavlovskaja arrival page on Greenfire but then it dropped off their website so don't even know what they cost. How did U get Pavlovskaja? Beautiful hens but the breed was kind of reconstituted from 1 fertile cock & some other breed of hen so can they really be called 100% Pavlovskaja or a mix to LOOK like a Pavlovskaja? When u read stories of one lone rooster reconstituting an extinct breed it seens funny to call it a full 100% breed but that's just me. How big are the Russian Cresteds or are you still in the process of experimenting w/ them? I know this is a Silkie page but got so excited to see u w/ Pavlovskaja & Russian Crested Hens listed at the bottom of your post!

I'm suppose to be getting egs for pavs in the spring. Will see. My cresteds fell through so once spring nears I'll be trying again.

I will be going to Russia eventually and if all else fails I can buy them whilst there and send them home. However that's going to be a while. I was suppose to go next year but with everything else that came up its likely going to be pushed back yet another year. :/

Everything's been on hold for me after I was in a really bad car wreck in early fall. Still recovering and everything has been pushed back for months.

I have to remember to write to my pav supplier soon to make sure they still have them and haven't gone AWOL like the cresteds lol.

Feel free to PM me! I don't always respond fast but I always do!

 

[Sylvester017]

Are these chicks going to be buff? Or maybe partridge? The started out looking more buff, but now they seem to be getting more grayish on their backs and multi-colors in the wings.

at 2 days old


And now, at about 12 days old




Thanks!

I saw my 2 Partridge at day old at the breeder who hatched them in a 'bator. Both my babies looked chipmunky at day-old but maybe someone who actually breeds Silkies can answer u better than me.