Silkie thread!

[Fancychooklady]

Do you guys feed your silkies crumble their whole life or layer pellets? Mine are 9 months and I still have them on crumble because I felt like layer is too bigs. Out of my 5 I have 3 roosters and 2 hens both of which are laying

I feed mine a ' micro pellet ' , it's about a 1/4 of the size of your average pellet. It's a little more expensive but in the long run there is no waste.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I did manage to get a couple of smaller items done.

Today I managed to fix the automatic watering system for the rabbits. A value broke and I managed to replace it with a properly working one. Never did it before always done by my husband. Since he is not here atm I managed to replace the broken valve. 

I think I shall spend the rest of the day in my room watching Farscape on Netflix and knitting the shawls. 

There's a great Aussie series called ' McLeod 's daughters ' , that would keep you busy while you knit.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Silkie help ...Im pretty new to silkies. Have 6   every day  lightly   splashed  Silkies  and  then  bought eggs from across the country.Now have  4 really nice babies  from the eggs.I want to take good care of them..

They are in a little run   now plenty of  room but it has no grass at all. I just dug out   a few clumps of grass  and dropped in  which  they are crazily pecking at .Now i wonder did i do the right thing.?. Can some grass or weeds  hut them ?I  dont use any chemicals on my grass  ever. It just comes up with whatever weeds are in it.I live in the country so no neighbors to add chemicals. nearby..Ive also dropped in picked grass weeds  and bush leaves for them before
. They are i think 6 to 8 weeks old now

Another question
 One  egg hatch that said partridge on it. It hatched out   with brown  and black strips and sort of silver background  pretty....but  suprisingly to me chick  has turned black with a little white around its eyes
Will it  have   some other color come out later or stay  all black.? 

Giving them access to the soil is a good thing. It helps with their immunity to cocci, but be careful with grass clippings. 9 times out of 10 they are the cause of impacted crop. When the chicken forages the length of grass it swallows is much shorter than when we break it for them. If you have any milk thistle they love that.

 

[dstinett]

I've read silkies should not have pellets because they can choke. My Silkie rooster has gotten into pellets with no I'll affect. I want feedback too because crumble is so wasteful

 

[Fancychooklady]

I've read silkies should not have pellets because they can choke. My Silkie rooster has gotten into pellets with no I'll affect. I want feedback too because crumble is so wasteful

When they are young they can choke on most anything. I had one choke on a feather.
I feed mine a mix of free range ( scratch ) and a 22% protein micro- pellet. This is their staple diet, they do of course get table scraps and a weekly treat.

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

Do you guys feed your silkies crumble their whole life or layer pellets? Mine are 9 months and I still have them on crumble because I felt like layer is too bigs. Out of my 5 I have 3 roosters and 2 hens both of which are laying

I feed mine Nutrena Feather Fixer and mix some 5-grain scratch. I tried 11 grain scratch, put they pick and choose, waste a lot..The Feather Fixer has small pellets. I haven't noticed any feather difference in the Feather Fixer. I use it to put weight on them, and the "mite technology" seems to work. I've seen less mites with it. I haven't tried other Nutrena variations, but they might have the smaller pellets like Feather Fixer does.

 

[lightchick]

I've read silkies should not have pellets because they can choke. My Silkie rooster has gotten into pellets with no I'll affect. I want feedback too because crumble is so wasteful

I need to feed my Silkie layer pellets because she's living with a Black sex link, Brown sex link and a Australorp. Do I have to get micro pellets?

 

[Fancychooklady]

I need to feed my Silkie layer pellets because she's living with a Black sex link, Brown sex link and a Australorp.  Do I have to get micro pellets?

I feed my entire flock micro pellets. Just be mindful that if you keep Roos , you want to keep the calcium levels below 2%.

 

[lightchick]

I don't have any roos.

 

[Cynthia12]

I feed all of my flock the lay mash when they are old enough. Crumbles for the babies, no problems yet. A good chick starter. They have done just fine for years now on this.
And like said..they can choke on anything, you just never know..just this morning I'm out watching them in the grow out pen, and one is just trying it's hardest to smash something into the ground to make it .. swallable..if that's a word .. lol.. well, it was something, but that something had a feather on it. I got it's attention by talking to it...don't eat that feather!! My raised voice did the trick to distract it.