Silkie thread!

[sager:)silkies]

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you already asked and were answered.

lol i know but i wanted to see if new ppl would answer cause the post only last so long but i just realised i have a black cohcin x wyndotta ill post a pick could he be the rooster i seen him throw a couple quickies in
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[mshuey1]

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I think it would be fine to breed her. I don't think is some thing that it will pass, may she hurt that toe r got it stuck in some where.

 

[I-Have-Happy-Hens]

Even though she has one on both feet?

 

[sager:)silkies]

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thats probley a gene defect

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

A good picture would be in order

 

[I-Have-Happy-Hens]

It will have to be tomorrow, sorry.

Happy-Hens

 

[chikincrazee]

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Our first chicken came with our house, and we acquired a few more feed store birds over the next couple of years; we've lived here almost 13 years. I got my first silkies in 2001, so about 10.5 years with them. After we first got chickens, I discovered that long ago my uncle used to breed and exhibit bantam leghorns.

Sonoran...thats neat about your uncle..my great grandfather use to run a flock of close to a 1000 barred rocks and my dad use to put the eggs in the cartons ..they use to supply all the restaurants in the city with fresh eggs during the war and then my dad had sexlinks for eggs and meat rocks....now my son is into the chickens..maybe we have genetics predisposed to poultry.lol

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Either an incubation problem or nutritional deficiency. I can't recall ofhand whether it is high or low temps that can cause toes to curl. If nutritional, it could be that her mother did not have a great diet before she formed the egg from which the bird hatched, it could be that her current food is inadequate or she may have problems processing some nutrients.

 

[mshuey1]

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Either an incubation problem or nutritional deficiency. I can't recall ofhand whether it is high or low temps that can cause toes to curl. If nutritional, it could be that her mother did not have a great diet before she formed the egg from which the bird hatched, it could be that her current food is inadequate or she may have problems processing some nutrients.

Wow Sonoran u know so much info. I hope someday I will be as good as u.

 

[Hennypen]

I think it's high humidity. My very first hatch of a different breed resulted in curled toes on every single cockeral. I did the 50%/70% humidity hatch thing.

Ever since I've kept rhe humidity at 50% during hatch and no more curled toes.

And I've used the same curled toed birds for breeding and the offspring have been fine. in this case, it's not genetic.