Silkie thread!

[ripituprip]

I am bringing home a bunch of day olds tomorrow. What advice do you have for feeding and watering? What kind of water container should I use? Th

nks- Billy

 

[ChickensXOXO]

I am bringing home a bunch of day olds tomorrow. What advice do you have for feeding and watering? What kind of water container should I use? Th

nks- Billy

You can use one of those small chicken waterers. Just add some rocks or marbles in the bottom, so they won't drown.
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I wanted to share a picture of Cali from yesterday. She has some red in her crest from the sun.
I have more shade for them in their pen now, so I'm hoping that will help after she molts..

 

[Hawkeye95]

It played some strange tricks on me yesterday! I'm so happy for you! I know just how you feel! In case you didn't get to see my first chick from my own flock. Here it is!

How did I miss your baby!?!? Oh your chick is GORGEOUS!!!!! Is that a vaulted skull or just incredible crest already!? Look at that foot feathering! Beautiful!! Drooling over here!!

 

[Hawkeye95]

THANKS! I would of loved to own a Brinsea, but price was a factor. Quick question: are paint egss the same as splashes?

Brinsea offers coupon codes. I bought one with the coupons and helped keep the price down. They will offer it on their Facebook page-- a coupon of the month or a deal of some kind. Then on top of that, you can sign up for their newsletter thru Facebook (only do that when you're ready to buy) because they give you another coupon code that you can use together. I got mine over x-mas and I ended up paying $99 for the unit. I was pretty happy. However... then they get you on shipping! I think it was about $19 for shipping. I love my machine and love that it turns the eggs from the outside-- nothing inside to get caught on. However, I do think I will be buying the hovabator genesis 1588 for a hatcher later on.

I hatch my first fertile eggs--and they've done fine. So long as they are even in size and coloring and the shell looks good, it's into the bator they go! I could be wrong, but I think most silkie owners are so thrilled by the time the little beauties start laying (the expected time is around eight months) that they aren't feeling patient anymore!

X 2!! My pullets are now about 10 months old and their eggs are full size and now I'm pretty sure they are fertile... they are going into the incubator!

 

[Hawkeye95]

You can use one of those small chicken waterers. Just add some rocks or marbles in the bottom, so they won't drown.
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I wanted to share a picture of Cali from yesterday. She has some red in her crest from the sun.
I have more shade for them in their pen now, so I'm hoping that will help after she molts..

She is gorgeous as always! I love the bows you put in her "hair"! Adorable! I still think your avatar is your best pic of her, though.

 

[ChickensXOXO]

She is gorgeous as always! I love the bows you put in her "hair"! Adorable! I still think your avatar is your best pic of her, though.

Thank you, but it's not the same bird. Chloe is the porcelain/blue partridge or whatever in my avatar, and Cali is my splash.
Splash is actually my favorite color. Wish I had more!

 

[peepblessed]

Hey guys, you'll be hearing from me often. I just purchased a hovabator 1588 advanced, and 8 hatching silkie eggs (5 blue bearded, 3 white i believe)!

Yay! Another silkie addict is being birthed!

 

[peepblessed]

Congrats on setting your silkie eggs, ChickenLeg! We love the hovabators--in fact, our third should arrive later this week!

Of course, our Brinsea will always be first in my heart, but since I think I could almost cover the price of all three hovabators with just the one Brinsea...it doesn't have much of a lead.

I am super excited to share that my first six paint eggs went into lockdown today! Plus some white, lav, por, partridge and buff siblings and bator mates. Really hoping the paints especially will hatch. One had a misplaced air sack, which has worked out for me before but I don't know that I can count on sorting itself this time.

Just to make sure I'm good and anxious, with all those eggs in lockdown and another 30-40 (mostly guinea) in various stages of incubation, I'm afraid we'll lose power cause of the storms. It blinked off earlier, but was right back on. If it goes off during the night...I just hope I wake up and can scramble cords together and get all the incubators onto the generator! Crazy!

These of my four paint eggs hatched a few days ago but sadly they were all solid!

 

[peepblessed]

How did I miss your baby!?!? Oh your chick is GORGEOUS!!!!! Is that a vaulted skull or just incredible crest already!? Look at that foot feathering! Beautiful!! Drooling over here!!

Thanks, Hawkeye! Yes, it has a vaulted skull but I've never had that much crest on one before.

My roo has a lot of crest. It looks just like him.

 

[peepblessed]

You can use one of those small chicken waterers. Just add some rocks or marbles in the bottom, so they won't drown.
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I wanted to share a picture of Cali from yesterday. She has some red in her crest from the sun.
I have more shade for them in their pen now, so I'm hoping that will help after she molts..

Beautiful, sweet and hugable!!