Silkie thread!

[silkieluver_07]

Here's some youngster pictures out of the growout pens:

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

I want the bird in the second picture from the bottom.

Another question...what size ABA band are you using on your silkies? I have 4 different sizes and am wondering if I should be putting on a larger one. Thanks.

 

[silkieluver_07]

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She is the same age as the buffish/partridge/porcelainish one. She is like a big sister to the younger ones in the pen. I'm using the largest size available, the 20 mm I'm pretty sure. April helped me get the right ones at Delmarva. Unfortunately, alot of mine aren't getting bands because you have to catch them at the perfect growth spot. Most of the time I cant get that darn band over that last fifth toe!

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

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She is the same age as the buffish/partridge/porcelainish one. She is like a big sister to the younger ones in the pen. I'm using the largest size available, the 20 mm I'm pretty sure. April helped me get the right ones at Delmarva. Unfortunately, alot of mine aren't getting bands because you have to catch them at the perfect growth spot. Most of the time I cant get that darn band over that last fifth toe!

Ok. I have the 20's too for them...and you are right! I thought I was the only one. You can only manipulate those last two toes so much! So, some have them, some don't

 

[robin416]

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Thanks! So it is genetic then???
I have a girl identical to the one in the picture that had developed wry neck after or really during an impacted crop problem. I am hoping she pulls through it. I am treating with the vitamins and also metacam. Hoping one of them will work!

Oh yes, its genetic. And seems to get passed on to the progeny fairly easily.

Right now I'm testing cross beak. After three years of breeding I am not seeing cross beak in any of the results. I think the cross beak that most of us are seeing has to do more with injury or artificial incubation. The type that Hutt talks about is much more deformed.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Thanks! So it is genetic then???
I have a girl identical to the one in the picture that had developed wry neck after or really during an impacted crop problem. I am hoping she pulls through it. I am treating with the vitamins and also metacam. Hoping one of them will work!

Wry simply means tilted or twisted. In tails, it is definitely genetic. Wry neck has many causes ranging from nutritional deficiency to injury to illness. A nutritional deficiency can be genetic (inability to adequately process various nutrients) or diet, including diet of the parents (in reference to chick-onset wry neck).

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Thanks! So it is genetic then???
I have a girl identical to the one in the picture that had developed wry neck after or really during an impacted crop problem. I am hoping she pulls through it. I am treating with the vitamins and also metacam. Hoping one of them will work!

Wry simply means tilted or twisted. In tails, it is definitely genetic. Wry neck has many causes ranging from nutritional deficiency to injury to illness. A nutritional deficiency can be genetic (inability to adequately process various nutrients) or diet, including diet of the parents (in reference to chick-onset wry neck).

I'm glad I stumbled upon this discussion. I have a Blue Ameraucana bantam roo and his tail is off to the side. So he will pass that trait on to his offspring?

 

[cat1994]

Hi I finally have silkies so I can post some pics on this thread

This is Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde

This is Pac-Man

 

[NewToFarming]

OMG!

Love the names and they are very cute!!!

 

[NewToFarming]

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Thanks! So it is genetic then???
I have a girl identical to the one in the picture that had developed wry neck after or really during an impacted crop problem. I am hoping she pulls through it. I am treating with the vitamins and also metacam. Hoping one of them will work!

Wry simply means tilted or twisted. In tails, it is definitely genetic. Wry neck has many causes ranging from nutritional deficiency to injury to illness. A nutritional deficiency can be genetic (inability to adequately process various nutrients) or diet, including diet of the parents (in reference to chick-onset wry neck).

Thanks!
I am thinking maybe this crop impaction she had might have had something to do with it??? Her crop was huge and actually extended up to the side of her neck. I never felt a crop quite like that before. That is the same side that she seems to be leaning her head too also. She was fine before this, I noticed her being off balance and a head tilt....then when I was checking her out felt her huge crop. Her crop has gotten better with the ACV, bread soaked in oil and massage but the head tilt did not go away. I have been hand feeding her mash with the added vitamins and also gave metacam I had on hand. I do have her separated from the others. I do not want to take a chance of her being picked on right now.