Silkie thread!

[emvickrey]

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[Gordonhillfarm]

Ok on another note I've had 2 medical problems with my silkies and I wanted to share a couple of sites I found to be very helpful . The issues were 1 - ear canker ( by the way is ear mites in bedded in their ear 2- I'm still not sure what to call it other then head injury to a chick as it hatched . I do know now from many resorces that chickens do not get wry neck or crooked neck those are deases of another animal completely different ( I'm not going to argue this point ) what happens is simular but not the same .

1st -- American Silkie Bantam Club - I asked for help and had some awsome advice given to me . Where better to go then to those that have been breeding and raiseing silkies for advice on silkies .

2nd--animalpetdoctor.homestead.com -- they had some very helpful medical treatments - that I did apply

3rd-- The Easy Chicken -- On there web site I found very valuble information - How to give an injection was priceless ( I've never given a chicken a shot before and need to if I was going to help my little hen .

4th--X-Treme Game Birds & Poultry -- They have a Meds and Dosage chart I found useful


I lost 1 of my little chicks and the other is doing great !!! My hen that had ear canker is doing great also . ( By the way no matter how much you do to protect them from mites -- mites can still get to them . I didn't know until I picked her up because a roo was bothering her . I noticed her ear was swallen like a marble - I didn't know what was wrong at first . I thought she had syst . She felt light - I checked her over for mites but couldn't find a bug anywhere . I use Ivermec liquid and poultry seven dust on them and their dust bath -- I also use diatomacious earth in their shavings so as far as I was concerned they were safe from mites . It was research and asking questions . Then A call to my vet ( I always do that last -- he really doesn't know how to treat chickens -- so search out remedies and advice then he helps me with what be a good treatment ) That I discovered what it really was . It was a wax ball the size of a marble I had to remove . Yuk -- God Love her -- it smelled awful and wasn't easy to do .
Sorry if I've gone on more then I should but felt this information could be helpful to others ~~ Tammy

 

[Peaches Lee]

Can you tell me about the Vaulted head please?

Do all Silkies have them?

What do I look for?

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Hattrick has a good article on vaulted skulls. http://www.hattricksilkies.net/articles_vaulted_skull.html

 

[Peaches Lee]

Thank you.

 

[mom2to]

Would Any Of You Breed A Calico To A Partridge Or Are They The Same. I Was Told That The Calico Had Genes Of Partridge. I Think I Should Only Do Partridge To Partridge...........

 

[HHandbasket]

I am fairly new to silkies and have 2. I have a solid white named Sascha and a barred/cuckoo silkie named Roberto. They are 6 weeks old. Oddly enough, Sascha is about half the size of the other silkies that hatched at the same time. I don't have pics of Sascha yet, but here's Roberto:

 

[BlueBirdChick]

I know huh thats the craziest thing to tell people that they have fur and not feathers. o0 its like fine whatever dont belive me, here pet my one chicken see how the feathers feel soft but rough, now pet my silkies

see........

Strange look***** I slam my head into the brick wall .......... I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE SILKIES

 

[Teresaann24]

If anyone is looking for some nice white silkie hatching eggs I have a auction on ebay link is in my Siggy.

 

[TK Poultry]

Sorry to barge in but I'm now the PROUD owner of 9 Silkies and a showgirl! I have 8 Blue Partridge Silkies and one White one that came form that same hatch but she is develping some fawn ish orange on her(

) I have a trio of laying adults and the rest are babies.

Some of the Partridge Chicks

A partridge chick and a showgirl chick.

My rooster

My two hens with my Bantam Brown Red Ameraucanas in the background

edited to say don't mind my awful messy garage... I was taking a break from cleaning when I decided to snap some pics