Silkie thread!

[kellyloveschad]

Cute pictures and glad the roo is better behaved now and perhaps try wearing closed toed shoes in their pen or around them?


Also, I really dont mean to offend here but its been bugging ne so i have to ask, are you sure it's a yorkie? Again I really don't mean to offend but it's just it looks more like a schnauzer or schnauzer mix to me. But either way, it is a very very cute dog and sorry.

Oh and your roo is gorgeous so i hope you don't have to get rid of him

you dont affend me her looks just like my best friend white schnauzer! Idk if its the fact I shave all his hair off or what he's supposedly a yorkie Bichon mix!

 

[Rihanna diva]

There are only certain colours that can be entered and shown under the APA. In the states I think the colours are white , black , buff and partridge. ( someone else might help out here ). Other colours are generally entered under ' all other breeds ' .
This article on what to look for and abbreviations used within the showing world might help.

http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Standard.html

Thank you for responding but I didn't see either abrievations on the website if anyone else knows help would be appreciated

 

[AmandaVirginia]

I got my first pair of Silkies as day old babies yesterday! Here they are with my baby, Palmer! They are her babies! There's something about a Yorkie and her Silkies! Welcome home Sid and Stella

 

[MuscovyMadness]

Cute pictures and glad the roo is better behaved now and perhaps try wearing closed toed shoes in their pen or around them?


Also, I really dont mean to offend here but its been bugging ne so i have to ask, are you sure it's a yorkie? Again I really don't mean to offend but it's just it looks more like a schnauzer or schnauzer mix to me. But either way, it is a very very cute dog and sorry.

Oh and your roo is gorgeous so i hope you don't have to get rid of him

I agree...ADORABLE pooch but its not a yorkie. I have raised and shown dogs all my life and have been a professional groomer for 27 years. Schnauzer mix. Btw...I LOVE the markings on your Roo.. very beautiful... what is he mixed with to have a comb like that?

 

[MuscovyMadness]

I got my first pair of Silkies as day old babies yesterday! Here they are with my baby, Palmer! They are her babies! There's something about a Yorkie and her Silkies! Welcome home Sid and Stella

TOO CUTE for words!!!!!

 

[jenniferlamar70]

I got my first pair of Silkies as day old babies yesterday! Here they are with my baby, Palmer! They are her babies! There's something about a Yorkie and her Silkies! Welcome home Sid and Stella

What a good pooch. So cute and motherly..

 

[ShrekDawg]

you dont affend me her looks just like my best friend white schnauzer! Idk if its the fact I shave all his hair off or what he's supposedly a yorkie Bichon mix!

I'm glad yeah, sorry but i think whoever gave you him was wrong/didnt know any better either. Definitely a schnauzer mix though hard to say with mixes. The dog just posted is a yorkie though lots are darker and here's a bichon.

Not a show one but white curly coated dogs.

Also you'll note they're all teeny and a google would reveal more pics so yeah, sorry but i hate to say but i dont think its that mix but ot os very cute!!

I got my first pair of Silkies as day old babies yesterday! Here they are with my baby, Palmer! They are her babies! There's something about a Yorkie and her Silkies! Welcome home Sid and Stella

Soooo cute.

I agree...ADORABLE pooch but its not a yorkie. I have raised and shown dogs all my life and have been a professional groomer for 27 years. Schnauzer mix. Btw...I LOVE the markings on your Roo.. very beautiful... what is he mixed with to have a comb like that?

Yeah i agree. And glad you do too

TOO CUTE for words!!!!!

What a good pooch. So cute and motherly..

Agreed, adorable

 

[QueenMisha]

Seriously that's animal abuse. I live in a farming community and even the old timers wouldn't treat their eating roosters that way. That's wrong..

How about rehomeing?? Kicking seems sad

idk about kicking him its only right when I let him out of the coop in the morning!!!! I was thinking more of a time out deal!!! because after he gets his energy out you can hold him and pet him!!!  I just don't want it to grow into a bigger issue!!

I agree and kicking him and doing all that will DEFINITELY make a bigger issue where there was none. Imo he's just being a hormonal teenager plus morning jitters so he should grow out of it. So I definitely recommend NOT kicking and chasing him all over the yard... I would just wait and see if he gets better with time. And maybe try the thing suggested about carrying him around and giving treats etc. Or maybe holding him down on the ground once or twice but not too harshly and only if the other stuff works. But i definitely wouldn't terrorize him.

That is definitely considered animal abuse. You should never treat an animal like this. I agree with carrying him around or re-homing him. Kicking him is not humane and will only make the problem much worse. Trust me, our neighbor used to hit his rooster with a wooden board he only got meaner and meaner and they ended up having to kill him because you couldn't even enter the run without getting sliced by his spurs. Before the board he used to only challenge him. The whole reason he challenges you is because he thinks you are a threat. By hitting him or kicking him you only become more and more of a threat to him. You shouldn't cower to him or act scared of him but you definitely shouldn't kick him either! Try every time he attacks you turn around and pick him up carry him around till he doesn't fight anymore then let him go and do this everytime he attacks you. If you have a mean rooster you don't want give him away to someone who can handle him.

I'm not interested in getting in a fight so this will be my only further response to this.

If a dog was attacking you, actually trying to bite you and draw blood, possibly causing injury, would you kick it away? Of course you would. Roosters can draw blood and seriously hurt people. I've watched a Polish cockbird, not more than 5 pounds mature, knock over a four year old girl and repeatedly kick her in the neck and face, causing multiple deep scratches and draw blood. Chickens may be small but they can absolutely cause harm.

I would never kick a hen; a chick; a mature rooster who is friendly and good. A turkey, peafowl, or any other animal. But DEFENDING YOURSELF AND OTHERS is not animal abuse. Just like I would kick a dog trying to bite and harm me, I would kick a rooster trying to bite and harm me.

I've never, ever, once had "cuddling" or "petting" result in a rooster calming down. I've tried it with every aggressive cockbird I've had. They immediately restarted their antics after being set down. One, the Polish, I did this with for four entire months with no change in behavior, and actually worsening over time. They are not being taught you aren't a threat; they're just getting irritated and learning you are not something that will hurt them, and so they can push you around any time they want. And yet, one episode of kicking - never enough to seriously harm, never actively running after them except to grab and hold them, just kicking them off your foot whenever they come back, willingly trying to hurt you - and not one rooster tried me ever again. I still have several of them, who are still alive today only because they learned their lesson quickly with minimal harm to both me and them. They are all happy, friendly birds, and I'm sure they would much rather be here - respectful of my presence in their flock - then sent off to Freezer Camp.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Yestrday i,found one of my 5 month old silkie chickens in a nesting box with one of my BO. I kicked her out of the box assuming she was hiding from the 5 month old silkie Roosters who were mounting her. It was my understanding that silkies take about 8 months to a year to lay. Well yesterday we found a little brown egg. I assumed one of my buff laid a wing egg. My kids thought it was adorable. We saved it to show their friends. Well today I found her back in the egg box and left her there, came back later and found another little egg. Could it really be that my 5 month old silkie is reAlly laying. And aren't her eggs supposed to be whit?

Most of mine lay at 20-24 weeks. Congrats.

 

[AmandaVirginia]

TOO CUTE for words!!!!!

Thank you so much!

What a good pooch. So cute and motherly..

She's the best pooch and I will forever love how motherly she is with her Call ducklings and Silkie chicks! Thanks so much, Jennifer!

Soooo cute. Agreed, adorable

Thank you so much!