Silkie thread!

[Hawkeye95]

i have some life-lytes will that work?

You need something with Vit E, and the baby liquid vitamins (without iron) are the best. If you just want to go buy Vit E liquid gel caps and poke a hole in the end and squirt that down his beak, go for it.


It's hot here! We had a Kansas town yesterday beat the national high at 114 degrees. That's not uncommon for our area, either. Although we did not get that high yesterday here where I live, but we were into the low 100's. I think we were at 106 yesterday... Just wanted to mention, yesterday, a lot of people I know here in KS lost birds due to the heat. Make sure your birds have shade through out the entire day, plenty of water and if possible, fans or water misters. I prefer the Cobra water misters. I have them set up in all my pens. They are supposed to keep the temperature around them 20 degrees cooler!

 

[jimmy m]

what is split wing

 

[Hawkeye95]

what is split wing

http://www.hattricksilkies.net/articles_split_wing.html

This explains it better than I can and they have pictures of good and bad wings. How to look for it, how to hold the wings out and what not to do. This is a fantastic link.

 

[3ChickensinNC]

You need something with Vit E, and the baby liquid vitamins (without iron) are the best.  If you just want to go buy Vit E  liquid gel caps and poke a hole in the end and squirt that down his beak, go for it.  


It's hot here!  We had a Kansas town yesterday beat the national high at 114 degrees.  That's not uncommon for our area, either.  Although we did not get that high yesterday here where I live, but we were into the low 100's.  I think we were at 106 yesterday...  Just wanted to mention, yesterday, a lot of people I know here in KS lost birds due to the heat.  Make sure your birds have shade through out the entire day, plenty of water and if possible, fans or water misters.  I prefer the Cobra water misters.  I have them set up in all my pens.  They are supposed to keep the temperature around them 20 degrees cooler!  

Where did you find this? It would be perfect for my fuzzies.

 

[Adoravachick]

Congrats! Where is mommy and daddy's pictures to lol

Here is a pic of the chickie momma, my daughter..

 

[miohippus]

You need something with Vit E, and the baby liquid vitamins (without iron) are the best. If you just want to go buy Vit E liquid gel caps and poke a hole in the end and squirt that down his beak, go for it.


It's hot here! We had a Kansas town yesterday beat the national high at 114 degrees. That's not uncommon for our area, either. Although we did not get that high yesterday here where I live, but we were into the low 100's. I think we were at 106 yesterday... Just wanted to mention, yesterday, a lot of people I know here in KS lost birds due to the heat. Make sure your birds have shade through out the entire day, plenty of water and if possible, fans or water misters. I prefer the Cobra water misters. I have them set up in all my pens. They are supposed to keep the temperature around them 20 degrees cooler!

it has 8000 iu/lb of vit e in it.

 

[Sharksandguitars]

This is a 3 month old silkie chick, and I am debating what kind of comb it is developing. Is this a peacomb developing? Or something else?

 

[BarnGoddess01]

This is a 3 month old silkie chick, and I am debating what kind of comb it is developing. Is this a peacomb developing? Or something else?

Looks like the comb a lot of my olive eggers develop (Marans/Ameraucana). A combo comb - an overly lumpy single comb or badly defined pea comb - but certainly not the walnut comb Silkies are supposed to have.

Interesting. I wonder if some of the more experienced Silkie breeders will have comments.

 

[littlecritters]

 Here is a pic of the chickie momma, my daughter..

Oh how cute!

 

[Sharksandguitars]

Well I've been reading up on silkie comb genetics because I got this silkie and a friend of mine said it was a single comb. I know that silkies are suppose to have a walnut comb, which is what you get when you cross the pea to a rosecomb. So if it is a pea comb then I want to keep the bird to cross it to a rosecomb to produce all walnut progeny. Now, I also know that a lot of silkies have a modified rosecomb which is mistaken for a walnut comb. That being said, I'd really like to know if this comb is single, or pea.