Silkie thread!

[SilverSilkie]

<3 N.C Chicken Chick <3 :

This is a pic of Ice the mom, Muffin, and Pippen (in pic pippen is the first one)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/107523_hpim4091.jpg
Pippen looking up
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/107523_hpim4096.jpg
Snow , and Sugie
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/107523_ddjhmxv.jpg

These look very similar to the European bantam Silkies (0,600 Kg), The crest are not so big and the feedfeathers are less. Very different from the "big" European Silkies.​

 

[Tripp16]

<3 N.C Chicken Chick <3 :

This is a pic of Ice the mom, Muffin, and Pippen (in pic pippen is the first one)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/107523_hpim4091.jpg
Pippen looking up
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/107523_hpim4096.jpg
Snow , and Sugie
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/107523_ddjhmxv.jpg

Oh my gosh!! They are soooo adorable!! Look at that face!!!

 

[littlecreekfarm]

My silkie got a hair cut!
poor thing couldn't see well!

before

after

 

[Frost Homestead]

wow you can really tell she can see better. my silkie is beardless so I don't know if I'll have to try her crest etc. but if she can't see I plan on doing it. your silkie is really pretty

 

[franklinstreetwest]

Beautiful babies!

Is the one with the slightly domed head missing a knuckle/toenail on it's left foot, outside toe?

 

[drumstick diva]

3 NC what gorgeous silkies, mama and babies - the most adorable faces I have ever seen

 

[NewToFarming]

I had the most terrible thing happen today! I have a broody with 6 babies. I was feeding them and seen that a chick was somehow attached to mom. Mom was freaking, baby was screaming. I finally got a hold of mom and here somehow her underfluff got wrapped around babies neck very tightly. I had a heck of a time keep mom still and I could see the baby was dieing before my eyes. I was finally able to hold mom still enough to work on getting the babies neck untangled. By this time baby was totally out of it barely gasping. I though she broke her neck jumping around like she was, but I got the baby undone, held her in my hands to keep her warm and it took a minute or two but she started to come around and in another few minutes acted like nothing ever happened. That scared me to death and I never thought something like that could happen! If you have a mom with babies, check to be sure the babies don't get tangled in those underfluff feathers!

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

OHH My Gosh!!!

Who would of thought something like that could happen. So glad your baby is doing OK!!

 

[robin416]

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I'll warn you now, chances are very high this will happen with that hen again. Might even be over night tonight. Get a comb out and give her underside a good combing, it will help but might not prevent it completely.

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

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I had something simpler happen to me 2 months ago, but the hen was kicking the chick i was freaking out badly.

Glad your chick is okay!