Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

Alright all... I have a silkie chick, it is falling to grow, but it is active, just half the size of its fellows here at a week. It is not any bigger now than when it hatched. It eats, and drinks, has a problem going forward, but it does go forward especially when it wants to get back under its mama. Its head is also shaped a little weird... kinda like... like a baby when it first comes out and the top of its head is squeazed all funny... Like that. Well anyway... Should I give it some vitamins? How much? Should I take a pic? I mean it literally is the same size as when it was hatched 5 days ago...

Quite frankly, I don;t notice growth during the first week. It if is eating and acting normally, then I wouldn't worry. It probably has a vaulted skull.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I don;t think it is DNA testng--not sure how they sex them, but I've heard of way too many that weren't pullets, that were ordered and paid for as sexed pullets to think they use DNA.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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No, Orange is some variation on buff.




Sonoran your the one who swore Orange Sherbert was/is a splash partridge. He does have splashing in the wings, and remember he did come out of a partridge/blue partridge pen....the father to him was a blazing orange and red partridgey roo.


Hmmm, I need to see the other photo that I made that claim from. Him coming from a partridge/blue partridge pen probably lends credence to my earlier statement.

 

[beauty2thebirds]

I agree with the backseat driver bit

Not to mention it does sound like a vaulted head. So no worries there. I have 6 just like that, I just pulled from the incubator.

My kids tend to do the strange and unusual too! I think it's the breed. Right now I have a 3 week old baby out in the pen with his/hers fellow hatch mates. Bird was fine until today. Then I looked and I thought he was dead. Had that whole flattened out thing going on. Then I went to pick him up and darn if he's not only alive but still doing his funky little flat self. He's alert. Eats, drinks and just prefers NOW to lay out like he's on the beach. What in the world is this about?

Ive had some other things happen, but I can't think of them. But my bird is acting weird.

Send a picture, I want to see the little monkey!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Hmmm, I need to see the other photo that I made that claim from. Him coming from a partridge/blue partridge pen probably lends credence to my earlier statement.

 

[whytedragon]

I just acquired this pair..I am very pleased with them, they are by-far the nicest Silkies I have ever had

 

[Whittni]

Those are so beautiful...this is my first silkie hen here:

 

[whytedragon]

Maybe its just me and I'm looking at it wrong..but I can't make her out. Is she bathing in the sand?

Those are so beautiful...this is my first silkie hen here:

 

[questions543]

how many eggs do your silkies lay weekly??? (on average) thanks

 

[seclusionfarms]

New silkie chicks hatched today, as always its on the worst day possible lol