Newspaper yes but it is shreaded up very thinly so not sure if it would be slipery, the other chicks i bought with it were snezeing and gasping so i have had some anitboiots in there water i was wondering if maybe it was not drinking and became dehdrated? i gave it some suger water and it realy drak it up but still just sitting with head down but now with one leg bent and the other out stright. i will try the hair band idea and see if it helps
START with good quality colors to begin with. Buy a Buff pair, and a splash/blue pair, etc. Do NOT cross your colors and breed --for example-- White to anything else but white... same with your buff and splash--- don't breed them with anything but their own color. The work has been done for you, what you can do is create your own breeding program that does NOT breed split wing, leakage, extra toes and other faults and strive to breed the best you can. Be picky. Don't just breed something because you have it. I have plenty of birds here that I will never breed-- ever. If they are female, they get tossed into my layer pen (separate from my other birds). If they are roosters, they get sold (and unfortunately, I've got someone coming to buy a couple of my roosters and I'm sure they are going to eat them). But they are worthless to breed, they are a very bad example of what a silkie is. And honestly, if they are going to eat them, at least those genes won't be bred later on. Start researching here and on the web who is showing and breeding and creating very nice birds themselves and see what you can buy from them. That is how I started off. This is our first year showing, and that makes a big difference. You learn a lot just by going to shows and seeing what you are up against and what you are striving for.
Yeah, he looks like he might have spraddle leg. Use the bandaide technique on him. BUT--- here's the thing, his head is down and his body seems rear heavy. I've had two of these chicks hatch this year alone. They usually end up dying. I think there is actually something wrong with their bellies/rears. Like in the digestion or something. Possibly even a tumor or unabsorbed yolk. Something that makes them bottom heavy. Then because they keep falling back, their legs splay out like that. So while it looks like he has spraddle... I'm going to vote there is something internally wrong with him.just bought a silkie chick a week a go now it is spradle legged or somtheing is there someting i can do to help it?
i can't stant up just sits like this.
X2 Don't reinvent the wheel! My favorite project color is the Columbian color-- BUT I'm certainly not going to try to re-create that, but "buy in".
ahhhh-- get rid of the newpaper. Use a nice thick layer of pine chips.
oh, good idea!!! The spraddle does look like a side effect of some other problem.
oh, dear it dose seem kind of heavy bottomed, wow not haveing much luck with chicks this year. well i guess i will be prepared if it dosent make it but hope for the best.
i have some life-lytes will that work?
