Silkie thread!

[Sylviaanne]

Is this guarding/protecting behavior? The big Silkie is 13-14 weeks old, the smaller ones are 3 weeks younger.

At the south end of the pen 6 = Silkies and ? = babies.


At the north end of the pen 2 Blue Splash Cochins same age as larger Silkie and one Silkie/Cochin mix, I don't remember how old it is but probably about the same age as the younger Silkies.

 

[Sylvester017]

That guy needs to do a bit more research. The only effective way to dispose of disease carrying animals is burial or better still incineration. By placing them in the garbage you are simply relocating the disease. Rodents , Mosquitos and wild birds are definately a threat to bio security but so too are red mites. They can transmit MG , mareks and coryza, just to name a few. All you can do is take steps to protect your flock against the obvious dangers. Otherwise you will go grey worrying about it.

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Along the same note I wonder if the Ebola scare transfers to chickens/animals? In the USA a dog was destroyed that belonged to a Texas nurse when she contracted Ebola from her Liberian patient who died.

To add to the list of living organisms that pass on parasites to chickens, I found out that the lowly garden earthworm can sometimes carry the eggs of parasites, worms, and viruses also. Talk about going grey with worrying!!!! Of all dangers I never considered the lowly earthworm a danger to birds!!!! The article I read said that farm-raising your own worms for chickens is the best way to avoid any hazards. I've got too much to do with regular health maintenance to have to worry about my garden earthworms. I'll just not feed them to my chickens when I till the soil and earthworms live too far below the surface for my chickens to scratch THAT deep to eat them!

I'm going crazy enough fishing through toxic vs non-toxic plants to plant in the backyard around the chickens! I've already had to fence off the tomato plants because I have a Silkie and an Ameraucana that love eating the toxic tomato plant leaves!

Be well everybody!

 

[Half Moon Ranch]

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Along the same note I wonder if the Ebola scare transfers to chickens/animals? In the USA a dog was destroyed that belonged to a Texas nurse when she contracted Ebola from her Liberian patient who died.

To add to the list of living organisms that pass on parasites to chickens, I found out that the lowly garden earthworm can sometimes carry the eggs of parasites, worms, and viruses also. Talk about going grey with worrying!!!! Of all dangers I never considered the lowly earthworm a danger to birds!!!! The article I read said that farm-raising your own worms for chickens is the best way to avoid any hazards. I've got too much to do with regular health maintenance to have to worry about my garden earthworms. I'll just not feed them to my chickens when I till the soil and earthworms live too far below the surface for my chickens to scratch THAT deep to eat them!

I'm going crazy enough fishing through toxic vs non-toxic plants to plant in the backyard around the chickens! I've already had to fence off the tomato plants because I have a Silkie and an Ameraucana that love eating the toxic tomato plant leaves!

Be well everybody!

I believe the dog that was destroyed belonged to a nurse in Spain.
The one that belongs to Nina Pham is under quarantine unless something changed.
I think the studies regarding dogs passing the disease are inconclusive, so for obvious reasons, they're erring on the side of caution.
I have not heard of any studies relating to transmission or carrying of Ebola to fowl, though I wouldn't doubt the possibility.

I'm sure our chickens eat all sorts of things that could be potentially dangerous, but I don't worry about it too much and so far (knock on wood) we have been lucky in that all our birds have remained in good health.
I'm not sure if that is because we've done things correctly or by dumb luck and it probably is the latter, but I won't sweat it unless something arises.

Folks like you, Fancychooklady and others have been a veritable cornucopia of knowledge which I'm sure has helped us steer clear of all sorts of mishaps and Susie and I thank you!

 

[kada6305]

What color are my babies? they are 2 days now.

 

[only1bgirl]

@kada6305The chick with the chipmunk like stripes on its back is most likely a partridge. I have no idea of what the other one is. They'll start to show colors in about a week when their wing feathers start to come in. They're cute! What's the pink color on the one?

 

[kada6305]

@kada6305 The chick with the chipmunk like stripes on its back is most likely a partridge. I have no idea of what the other one is. They'll start to show colors in about a week when their wing feathers start to come in. They're cute! What's the pink color on the one?

She said her silkie produce: white, black, splash and porcelain, so maybe Porcelain? and the pink on the one is just washable marker. it was to tell them apart before the one wiwth striped dried off. I am thinking the one with marker may be a white. only time will tell

 

[darkbluespace]

I had to come check out the Silkie thread... I am finally going to hatch a few Silkies!! I have 3 eggs going strong on day 15. They could be show girl, lavender, silver, buff or paint, I think. I can't believe how excited I am about these three eggs and I wish I could get more but I think I'll see how these three do. I am really excited to have more broody hens and I hear Silkies are the way to go! I should start with just a few because they will probably need a roofed run here in Oregon where it rains continually for 8 or 9 months, right??

 

[only1bgirl]

Maybe the splash too, so hard to tell! My white Silkie was kind of a grayish white color as a chick, not yellow. And my gray Silkie was yellow with silver and black chipmunk stripes, she now looks like a silver partridge to me. It will be neat to see what they are please post more photos when they're a bit older and @ me please. @kada6305

 

[kada6305]

Maybe the splash too, so hard to tell! My white Silkie was kind of a grayish white color as a chick, not yellow. And my gray Silkie was yellow with silver and black chipmunk stripes, she now looks like a silver partridge to me. It will be neat to see what they are please post more photos when they're a bit older and @ me please. @kada6305

Oh I will! I'll post weekly photos of them
It seems like the one without striped feqthers are soming in white. but hard to tell as they are only a few days old.

 

[Sylvester017]

I believe the dog that was destroyed belonged to a nurse in Spain.
The one that belongs to Nina Pham is under quarantine unless something changed.
I think the studies regarding dogs passing the disease are inconclusive, so for obvious reasons, they're erring on the side of caution.
I have not heard of any studies relating to transmission or carrying of Ebola to fowl, though I wouldn't doubt the possibility.

I'm sure our chickens eat all sorts of things that could be potentially dangerous, but I don't worry about it too much and so far (knock on wood) we have been lucky in that all our birds have remained in good health.
I'm not sure if that is because we've done things correctly or by dumb luck and it probably is the latter, but I won't sweat it unless something arises.

Folks like you, Fancychooklady and others have been a veritable cornucopia of knowledge which I'm sure has helped us steer clear of all sorts of mishaps and Susie and I thank you!

Yeah, we were wondering about the over-reaction to start destroying animals without anything being for certain researched. Until Ebola hit the USA the pharmaceuticals weren't even interested in coming up with vaccines for people even though it's a disease that's been around for decades!

On the same note about chicken diseases we thought it interesting how Leghorns are being used to detect Lyme disease from mosquitos that have bitten them - Legs are used like guinea pigs in a CA community to detect the virus antibodies in their blood yet they're immune to developing symptoms of the disease. For once there's a disease that a chicken can't contract or pass on! Thanks to the lowly Leghorn some areas can detect the presence of Lyme in their area without losing the chicken in the process!