Silkie thread!

[Suzierd]

Petrie should be around 14 weeks. I've heard her sing the egg song, and sits on the younger silkie some times. A face only a mother could love... amost guinea like with the beak bump lol. Pullet?

I love her! Wish I had a naked neck.

 

[chickiebaby1]

I love her! Wish I had a naked neck.

Love her name. Did you get that from Land Before Time? She even kinda looks like Petrie from the movie. Makes me want to go watch it now...

 

[Sylviaanne]

Well I had my first Moma hen attack on a just hatched chick. Thank you God I got there when I did or she would have killed it. I think because it didn't hatch under her. Here it is when first picking it up I seen a wound on the underside up towards the wing. I washed the blood off best I could and put it back under the Moma hen that is taking good care of it. The one that pecked it has been removed. This happened yesterday. Today it looked like the feathers didn't fluff on some of the underside and around the one eye. And it looked like the one eye was closed most of the way but when I took her out to put medicine on her wound she opened it good and the eye looks ok. I put Vetericyn around the eye and on the wound and gave her some drops of water with Rooster booster vitamins and electrolytes in it and she ate a few bites of food softened with the vitamin water. She seems spunky and lively. Sure hope she's going to be ok.

It's been 14 hours since you posted this, how is the baby doing?

 

[bbales135]

Here are some of my silkie sweeties! Two of the white paint silkies are roos and I love them too much to get rid of them!

 

[RoseZella]

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Is this 4 week old looking frizzled? I have another 4 week old who doesn't lay this way

 

[RoseZella]

Here are some of my silkie sweeties! Two of the white splash silkies are roos and I love them too much to get rid of them!

They're beautiful

 

[Suzierd]

It's been 14 hours since you posted this, how is the baby doing?

Baby is doing good this morning!

I didn't pull it and put medicine on it again yet just set it in the food dish it wasn't interested and went back under Moma hen. I think it's going to be awhile before the feathers all fluff out. One of the other eggs under her keeps sticking to her I think it got some goo on it from the first one hatching. I have to keep a eye on it. Ugh

 

[Suzierd]

Here are some of my silkie sweeties! Two of the white splash silkies are roos and I love them too much to get rid of them!

Beautiful! Those are paints not splash.

 

[Rainier]

We are going to go get my daughter some silkies to replace the one she lost. After going through and reading a bunch of threads I'm worried about integrating the new babies into the flock once they are old enough (We keep them inside until they are at least 8 weeks). I'm worried due to reading about the silkies being picked on by the other hens/roos. Our current flock (even the aggressive roos before culled) never picked on our silkie at all.

We culled the flock down considerable and are down to three roos (had 11) and seven hens. One BR roo who is very sweet and calls the hens to treats and two banty roos who surprisingly are the most protective of the hens. This morning I heard a commotion in the run and went to check on them and the BR roo had the hens under a large bush/tree while the two banty roos where just outside of it and watching the sky intensely and making their "danger" call.

Now I'm wondering how many silkies to get? Having one silkie is not good if it has to be in it's own flock so that led to me thinking 4 is a nice round number and easy to build a new coop should I have to create two flocks instead of integrating the new ones into the current flock.

 

[chickiebaby1]

My silky babies had their pictures done today (by Me

). These are the first 4 babies I ever hatched. Love them to pieces. Oh yea, we love the movie Frozen, hence the names.....