Silkie thread!

[Sylvester017]

I would personally get the athletes foot prep with miconazole . Several people on other threads used alternative things only to switch to the miconazole later. The chicks will be fine so long as you start treatment ASAP.

Hi - once again you are to the rescue to help save someone's sweet Silkies. I had never heard of chickens getting a ringworm-type fungus as I thought only fur-bearing animals and not feathered got this type of fungus. Thank you for being there! It is so late here - after midnight - or I'd be on the internet researching again. I am bookmarking things this year as I just have no great recollection to remember things anymore!

Have been fretting over having to re-home my beautiful Buff Leghorn who started getting aggressive with her flockmates after being broody for several weeks. She was submissive as a pullet to the Silkies but after growing up she suddenly realized she could bully them AND the Ameraucana who is non-combative. The Buff is so beautiful but she will have a home now with her original sister which I had gifted to a friend last year - these Buff Legs weren't cheap as I ordered them from a breeder as juveniles plus shipping costs. It is so hard finding compatable breeds to put with Silkies. So far only the Blue Wheaten Ameraucana has been the lone survivor to get along with the Silkies. Even the matriarch Partridge Silkie hangs out with her comfortably in the nestbox. Those Ameraucanas are so accommodating.

Next year I was planning to get 2 Breda as I understand they are a docile egg-laying non-broody breed that should go well with the Silkies and Ameraucana. Anyone have any experience with this flock mix? I know Polish are fairly docile but I didn't want any more crested or muffed/bearded breeds. The Silkies and Ameraucana have enough crests and beards between them and the Bredas have none - in fact they don't even have COMBS !

 

[Fancychooklady]

Hi - once again you are to the rescue to help save someone's sweet Silkies.  I had never heard of chickens getting a ringworm-type fungus as I thought only fur-bearing animals and not feathered got this type of fungus.  Thank you for being there!  It is so late here - after midnight - or I'd be on the internet researching again.  I am bookmarking things this year as I just have no great recollection to remember things anymore! 

Have been fretting over having to re-home my beautiful Buff Leghorn who started getting aggressive with her flockmates after being broody for several weeks.  She was submissive as a pullet to the Silkies but after growing up she suddenly realized she could bully them AND the Ameraucana who is non-combative.  The Buff is so beautiful but she will have a home now with her original sister which I had gifted to a friend last year - these Buff Legs weren't cheap as I ordered them from a breeder as juveniles plus shipping costs.  It is so hard finding compatable breeds to put with Silkies.  So far only the Blue Wheaten Ameraucana has been the lone survivor to get along with the Silkies.  Even the matriarch Partridge Silkie hangs out with her comfortably in the nestbox.  Those Ameraucanas are so accommodating.

Next year I was planning to get 2 Breda as I understand they are a docile egg-laying non-broody breed that should go well with the Silkies and Ameraucana.  Anyone have any experience with this flock mix?  I know Polish are fairly docile but I didn't want any more crested or muffed/bearded breeds.  The Silkies and Ameraucana have enough crests and beards between them and the Bredas have none - in fact they don't even have COMBS !

Well you have one very lucky friend! If it makes you sleep well at night then rehoming is probably best for all concerned. It's only 5-30 pm here but today is winter solstice so it's already pitch black outside. While your bookmarking, this is a good one from the ' master ' himself.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-recognize-fungal-infections-in-chickens-mol.html

 

[K Epp]

I have a coop of mixed bantam and all get along. Seabright are pretty with no beard, crest, or leg feathers. D'anver have beards, but no crest or leg feathers.

I think you are asking about LF. I can't help you there. The only one that lives in that coop is a EE and she thinks she is a bantam.

 

[aggie343]

hahaha!
Where could she have possibly gone!

That is do cute have to had her from chick? I have 2 silkies I hope ours will be like that 1 day or are still nervous and shy we only had them a few weeks

 

[emmyeagle]

Our 2 1/2 month old silkie chick is officially a roo! Heard & saw him crowing. Sounds like a broken squeaky toy, but definitely a crow. So excited. He is one of the sweetest birds in my flock. Can't wait until he fully blooms.

 

[daniellecm]

Yes the wings are normal but the body isnt

How do mean? Please explain

 

[TinyBirds]

Picture of some young silkies out in our back yard (supervised of course - luckily less hawks here in summer!)

 

[mystonedgarden]

Our 2 1/2 month old silkie chick is officially a roo! Heard & saw him crowing. Sounds like a broken squeaky toy, but definitely a crow. So excited. He is one of the sweetest birds in my flock. Can't wait until he fully blooms.

thats a cochin

 

[Sylvester017]

Well you have one very lucky friend! If it makes you sleep well at night then rehoming is probably best for all concerned. It's only 5-30 pm here but today is winter solstice so it's already pitch black outside. While your bookmarking, this is a good one from the ' master ' himself.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-recognize-fungal-infections-in-chickens-mol.html

Thank you - bookmarked!

Yes my friend is an egg seller and like me doesn't have precious time to invest raising from chicks so getting a year-old good layer Buff Leghorn is a boon. She also has my re-homed Marans and White Leg who are good layers but had both become aggressive toward the Silkies. Only our lone Ameraucana (my avatar) has survived getting along with the Silkies. The Partridge Silkie matriarch has taken the Amer "under her wing" sort of speak. They roost together and the Amer who is over a year old still submits to the Partridge. Now I'm back down to 3 hens and only the Amer is the good layer I have left. The Silkies are too sporadic to depend on eggs though they are terrific layers when they do. So sad that every time I get a good layer LF they start hurtfully bullying the Silkies and gentle Amer.

The Buff asserted her dominance by completely pulling out ALL the Amer's muff in just a couple days and then started pulling the Silkie crests to where all were running from her. Our bully Marans a couple years ago had completely pecked the Partridge Silkie bald/smooth to the skin and started chewing off her comb. Still kicking myself for thinking the Partridge was just moulting. I never had Silkies before and didn't know this was not normal Silkie moulting - poor thing! It wasn't till the Marans jumped the 6-month Black Silkie digging her claws into her back till she screamed that we realized what the whole problem was - she was a sneaky nipper and pecker and loved lording it over the weak. I didn't feel bad about rehoming the Marans as she was 7-lb, vicious, only layed 2-3 eggs a week but ate like a pig. However, my Leghorn rehomings tugged at me and sort of depressing for my DH and me. It's normal pecking order chicken squabbles but we can't risk keeping heavier bully fowl that can injure 2-lb Silkies.

The Buff suddenly enjoyed the power of being the bully - goes to re-enforce my feeling that assertive or heavy LF cannot be mixed with gentle, smaller, or bantam breeds because once the LF reach maturity they start dominating just because they physically can and in a hurtful way in our experience. In my friend's LF flock she will be put in her place and get back to the business of being respectful and laying eggs again - the same way it worked to tame down our rehomed Marans and White Leg. It will be more difficult in the large hen flock for her to bully or go broody again - too much activity, equal competition, and interraction going on in the flock for her to think about it. Her sister of the same age will be in the flock too so she won't be the only Buff Leg.

Thank you for your kind input. On my way to pack the Buff in a kennel crate to take her to my friend's

 

[subhanalah]

Thank you - bookmarked!

Yes my friend is an egg seller and like me doesn't have precious time to invest raising from chicks so getting a year-old good layer Buff Leghorn is a boon.  She also has my re-homed Marans and White Leg who are good layers but had both become aggressive toward the Silkies.  Only our lone Ameraucana (my avatar) has survived getting along with the Silkies.  The Partridge Silkie matriarch has taken the Amer "under her wing" sort of speak. They roost together and the Amer who is over a year old still submits to the Partridge. Now I'm back down to 3 hens and only the Amer is the good layer I have left.  The Silkies are too sporadic to depend on eggs though they are terrific layers when they do.  So sad that every time I get a good layer LF they start hurtfully bullying the Silkies and gentle Amer. 

The Buff asserted her dominance by completely pulling out ALL the Amer's muff in just a couple days and then started pulling the Silkie crests to where all were running from her.  Our bully Marans a couple years ago had completely pecked the Partridge Silkie bald/smooth to the skin and started chewing off her comb.  Still kicking myself for thinking the Partridge was just moulting.  I never had Silkies before and didn't know this was not normal Silkie moulting - poor thing!  It wasn't till the Marans jumped the 6-month Black Silkie digging her claws into her back till she screamed that we realized what the whole problem was - she was a sneaky nipper and pecker and loved lording it over the weak.  I didn't feel bad about rehoming the Marans as she was 7-lb, vicious, only layed 2-3 eggs a week but ate like a pig.  However, my Leghorn rehomings tugged at me and sort of depressing for my DH and me.  It's normal pecking order chicken squabbles but we can't risk keeping heavier bully fowl that can injure 2-lb Silkies. 

The Buff suddenly enjoyed the power of being the bully - goes to re-enforce my feeling that assertive or heavy LF cannot be mixed with gentle, smaller, or bantam breeds because once the LF reach maturity they start dominating just because they physically can and in a hurtful way in our experience.  In my friend's LF flock she will be put in her place and get back to the business of being respectful and laying eggs again - the same way it worked to tame down our rehomed Marans and White Leg.  It will be more difficult in the large hen flock for her to bully or go broody again - too much activity, equal competition, and interraction going on in the flock for her to think about it.  Her sister of the same age will be in the flock too so she won't be the only Buff Leg.

Thank you for your kind input.  On my way to pack the Buff in a kennel crate to take her to my friend's  

do you keep a cock bird with these flocks you have so much trouble in? You would think a good cock bird wouldn't allow such behavior?