Silkie thread!

[Sylvester017]

Thanks sub & sly, probably should have had that flu shot.

You've probably got better natural immunity for fighting the same flu next time around. Don't know about Tasmania but in the States there are so many flu types and they keep mutating that no one flu shot covers them all anyway. Fluids, bed rest or taking it easy with minimal chores and let the family make their own dinner and holler at them to clean up their own mess! Works for me when I'm sick

 

[Sylvester017]

i have four silkies 2 buff hens, 1 buff rooster, and 1 black rooster. i think all the buff ones are bantams. im getting reasy to separate the buff ones from th rest and hatch som of their eggs[i also have 1 white laced red cornish bantam hen, 1 blue orpington hen, and one unknown

. . . AND A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE ! Sorry, couldn't resist LOL

 

[Fancychooklady]

Its not its just annoyinb to pet them with it. they haveFF all over them

Ah, FF ?

 

[Fancychooklady]

You've probably got better natural immunity for fighting the same flu next time around. Don't know about Tasmania but in the States there are so many flu types and they keep mutating that no one  flu shot covers them all anyway. Fluids, bed rest or taking it easy with minimal chores and let the family make their own dinner and holler at them to clean up their own mess! Works for me when I'm sick

I've never had a flu shot as I have a serious aversion to needles. Their telling us in the news that swine flu is going to hit aus this winter. Just went and fed the chooks their scrambled egg and rice, they were very happy to see me. Needless to say it never seems like enough. Back to the lounge, watching Curley Sue, an oldie but a goodie.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Ah, flu head, fermented feed ? Try combing it out. If you feel you must wash them at such a young age, it needs to be nice warm water and you will need to blow dry them. This can be very stressful though .

 

[subhanalah]

Some like it though. So go in thinking happy thoughts lol.

 

[Going Quackers]

At what age can you expect a silkie to set? typically speaking.

 

[cgmaster]

. . . AND A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE !  Sorry, couldn't resist LOL

thats not all i have,i have 2 goslings, 1 male button quail, 1 female button quial, 5-6 geckos, a goldfish, a puppy, and a tarantula, ii used to have 2 cornsnakes but they died in january

 

[Spoiled Birds]

It is imperative you the brooder lights be secured more than just the clip. On different threads there is always tragic fires caused my the heat lamps falling. I use several zip ties to make sure mine isn't going to fall.

that looks great! Have you gifted out a secondary securing fastener for the lamp? Those clips are amazingly useless and dangerous! I don't know why they even put them on there! Lol.

Thanks! I havent figured out another way to attach it yet. The lamp is brand new and the clamp part seems pretty tough right now. It takes both hands for me to squeeze it open lol. And it has a lil turn piece up at the top that I can tighten if it get loose from me positioning it too much.
What I wound up doing actually right after this is attaching the clamp to the desk thats right next to it so that it faced the lamp perfectly where I wanted it. Oh and thanks for the tip on the bulb. I found the mood lighting passion bulb at lowes

I took am old curtain rod (you could use a dowel or something sturdy and small enough to fit through) and placed it through the circular part of the clamp, that way if the clamp slips off (I've had these things for years, bought new ones, etc, and they always find a way to slide off, I think it has to do with the triangular shape of the clamp) the pole will be there to prevent it from falling in, smoothing chick's or starting a fire.

I aways have mine secured with screws, using clamp or not. If I use the clamp I have screws through the triangle for security. I have even hung 1 from the raffter in my building using the hanning hoop on the lamp.

 

[Spoiled Birds]

Has anyone else noticed that baby silkies don't realize that they can't fly?

Mine will flap and hop around in the crate. They wont get on the roost that is 4 or 5 inches up,
but will sit on the 'baby roost' that is only an inch or so off the ground.
Sometimes when i get them out to run in the living room they will hop back in the crate.
They ack scared to fly off of my leg when I sit in the floor with them.
Silly kids.