Silkie thread!

[moomoodiddy]

I was literally just typing up a response to you and he died so sad this is the hardest part about getting chicks. He hadn't been doing so well today. I think he had something bigger wrong than a hurt leg. I had some younger chicks in another brooder so I put them in with my grey so he isn't lonely.

Awe, yea there are always some chicks that just have something so wrong with them they can't survive.

 

[FishMtFarm]

My silkies just hatched their first baby on their own this year....

 

[Bee and me]

Wow!I can't believe how much they grow in just a few days.
Congrats!

 

[Aziara]

Do silkie chicks usually have a crest from the start? I'm asking because I have a little blue chick that has no crest yet. I'm not sure of her age, the person I got her from said she was between 4 - 10 weeks, (this was 2 weeks ago) but I think she's younger. She only weighs 4.5 ounces...compared to my other chick, a partridge who weighs in at 11 ounces. Her wings seem a bit long too, they hang past her butt.

How old are they probably from their sizes?

 

[LadyVictorian]

Do silkie chicks usually have a crest from the start? I'm asking because I have a little blue chick that has no crest yet. I'm not sure of her age, the person I got her from said she was between 4 - 10 weeks, (this was 2 weeks ago) but I think she's younger. She only weighs 4.5 ounces...compared to my other chick, a partridge who weighs in at 11 ounces. Her wings seem a bit long too, they hang past her butt.

How old are they probably from their sizes?

Mine have always had crests but they came from a breeder who breeds good quality birds with crests and beards. I have seen some people with hatchery grade silkies who never got crests.

 

[Girlywelder]

Do silkie chicks usually have a crest from the start? I'm asking because I have a little blue chick that has no crest yet. I'm not sure of her age, the person I got her from said she was between 4 - 10 weeks, (this was 2 weeks ago) but I think she's younger. She only weighs 4.5 ounces...compared to my other chick, a partridge who weighs in at 11 ounces. Her wings seem a bit long too, they hang past her butt.

How old are they probably from their sizes?

My Queenie the day after she was born beside a picture taken this week.

 

[kellyloveschad]

If two alfa hen go broody in the same box whos mom?? Moo and bunny have been fighting the last week then sitting in the same box most the day! If I late them hatch an egg or two how does that work?

 

[Aziara]

Here's the little one I'm talking about. This is Luna. Yes, she's actually tiny, that's my 2 year old she's sitting on

 

[slkyldy4evr]

Here's the little one I'm talking about. This is Luna. Yes, she's actually tiny, that's my 2 year old she's sitting on

she should have some of her crest coming in by now, mine had theirs coming in at 3 weeks

 

[chicken hawk 33]

If two alfa hen go broody in the same box whos mom?? Moo and bunny have been fighting the last week then sitting in the same box most the day! If I late them hatch an egg or two how does that work?

they usually raise them together