Silkie thread!

[Suzierd]

Well I bit the bullet and payed 30.99 for organic feed. I couldn't find grower,they only had layer or chick starter. The name brand is Payback it's the only organic feed I can find here.
I got the layer pellets ( no crumbles available ). I mixed it with warm water added a little olive oil and ACV, chopped grapes and a touch of cottage cheese like I always do with their nutrena chick starter that they can't hardly wait for and gobble right up. I set he new great GMO free organic stuff down they slowly peck a few times then walk away looking at me for something else, I'm so bummed they don't like it! Now what to do go back and buy the nasty GMO stuff so they eat it?
Is chick starter and grower the same thing? The bag of nutrena I had said both on it? Does anybody know of any purina or nutrena feeds that are GMO free? That's what we get the most here and I may be able to have them order it. If my chickens will eat it. :/
Not sure what to do now, hated paying that much and now they won't eat it. I don't want GMO eggs.

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

Well I bit the bullet and payed 30.99 for organic feed. I couldn't find grower,they only had layer or chick starter. The name brand is Payback it's the only organic feed I can find here.
I got the layer pellets ( no crumbles available ). I mixed it with warm water added a little olive oil and ACV, chopped grapes and a touch of cottage cheese like I always do with their nutrena chick starter that they can't hardly wait for and gobble right up. I set he new great GMO free organic stuff down they slowly peck a few times then walk away looking at me for something else, I'm so bummed they don't like it! Now what to do go back and buy the nasty GMO stuff so they eat it?
Is chick starter and grower the same thing? The bag of nutrena I had said both on it? Does anybody know of any purina or nutrena feeds that are GMO free? That's what we get the most here and I may be able to have them order it. If my chickens will eat it.

Not sure what to do now, hated paying that much and now they won't eat it. I don't want GMO eggs.

Bummer that it cost so much, and they wont eat it!

 

[cindersga]

Well she went from running in a straight line when chasing the others back to their house to run a bit stop turn head, run a bit stop turn head, run a bit etc so she was doing about four course corrections in the length of the pen. Looked rather confused lol. If I held her head straight I could no longer see her eyes from the front due to a small tuft of feathers between her eye and beak. I trimmed back that little tuft and can now see her eyes and she is running in a straight line again.
She was defiantly not blinded by them and probably never would be but it still had to be annoying to have to turn your head everytime you wanted to see in front of you. It would definatly annoy the crap out of me if I had to do it to see straight, especially as easily fixed by one minute with a pair of scissors. But I guess each to his own on what constitutes the need to trim. She will never be a show bird due to an amputated toe if nothing else so she may as well be able to see in a straight line.
It was more the big , as someone said brain, stopping foreward vision I wondered if was the norm or if the two real big ones I saw where not actually within the standard.

I understand what you're saying appps. I have a silkie x girl who will never be shown as she has a peach beak, skin and feet. But her feathers do get in the way of her vision and she runs into everything. For her I would rather she be safe then brain injured. If she was a show bird I would tie up her crest but she's not so I trim. Also it probably doesn't feel good to have your crest up in a pony all the time either,

 

[Basel]

I have an adorable little white silkie cockerel that I hatched, about 3-4 months old, who started crowing about 3 weeks ago. He's been trying it out daily.

Unlike his brother who is very loud and got his full crow-0n within 2 days or so, THIS little one still doesn't make hardly any noise.

He just makes a froggy sounding "eh eh eh eh" kind of sound. He's trying real hard! But it's crackly and not getting any better and has no real "song" to it.

I am thrilled! Might he always be a little on the crackly froggy softer side???

 

[cindersga]

~FALL~

 

[dwegg]

Well I bit the bullet and payed 30.99 for organic feed. I couldn't find grower,they only had layer or chick starter. The name brand is Payback it's the only organic feed I can find here.
I got the layer pellets ( no crumbles available ). I mixed it with warm water added a little olive oil and ACV, chopped grapes and a touch of cottage cheese like I always do with their nutrena chick starter that they can't hardly wait for and gobble right up. I set he new great GMO free organic stuff down they slowly peck a few times then walk away looking at me for something else, I'm so bummed they don't like it! Now what to do go back and buy the nasty GMO stuff so they eat it?
Is chick starter and grower the same thing? The bag of nutrena I had said both on it? Does anybody know of any purina or nutrena feeds that are GMO free? That's what we get the most here and I may be able to have them order it. If my chickens will eat it. :/
Not sure what to do now, hated paying that much and now they won't eat it. I don't want GMO eggs.

I have always feed my girls organic layer...have now switched to grower/broiler...I can only get Countryside Organic and it is whole grains...they will get used to it especially if you are mixing it with other things that they eat...

I agree that organic is expensive but I just can't bring myself to feeding other feed...especially since I do not support GMO farming by the likes of Monsanto...

Grower and broiler are the same feed...it goes starter, grower, layer

 

[dwegg]

I have an adorable little white silkie cockerel that I hatched, about 3-4 months old, who started crowing about 3 weeks ago.  He's been trying it out daily. 

Unlike his brother who is very loud and got his full crow-0n within 2 days or so, THIS little one still doesn't make hardly any noise. 

He just makes a froggy sounding "eh eh eh eh" kind of sound.   He's trying real hard!   But it's crackly and not getting any better and has no real "song" to it.

I am thrilled!  Might he always be a little on the crackly froggy softer side???



 

I don't think he will....he will learn and get louder...sometimes if one cokeral is more dominant than the other he will not crow or crow as often...but I have found that if remover the crower than the other one learns to crow just as loud...

 

[peepblessed]

I am so happy, I added 10 more silkies to my flock and a easter egger hen, bringing my total to 24 chicken in my flock. Chicken math strikes again. 24 is a big jump from the original 6 I wanted. The new 11 have already given me 6 eggs in the first day, 5 small silkie eggs and a blue from the EE. I will be getting another coop and run together in 2 weeks and moving some of my blues and blacks to a pen of their own. I will post a few pictures tomorrow after work. So happy with my new silkies.

Never count!! You might find out you have too many!

I will have 5 new silkies and four of my original flock that I hatched this summer. I want to put them all together for winter, but not sure if I can pull that off with four boys. Two are young, and the other two are from different places. I think I am asking for trouble here. Everyone is quarantined and doing well, but I am pondering how to combine everyone for winter.
Should I put all the boys in a seperate coop and run area from the girls? Will they fight less?
I may be over thinking this. but since I only have delt with LF, that are hard to integrate, and can be really mean, I worry.
I have one large pen that I am planning on sectioning off for breeding of different colors in the spring with seperate small coops in each one. I could do something like that now.

I keep roos that grow up together in a separate pen and they never fight.

But then, sometimes with mine, I think a brain anywhere would be good!

Pam

~FALL~

Lovely! Thanks!

 

[peepblessed]

How are you all doing who are in the path of the storm? Everyone prepared and safe??

 

[Suzierd]

I have always feed my girls organic layer...have now switched to grower/broiler...I can only get Countryside Organic and it is whole grains...they will get used to it especially if you are mixing it with other things that they eat...
I agree that organic is expensive but I just can't bring myself to feeding other feed...especially since I do not support GMO farming by the likes of Monsanto...
Grower and broiler are the same feed...it goes starter, grower, layer

I guess I will give it some time and hope they start liking it. Maybe I can get them to order some grower for me. You would think that as many people that don't want GMO in their food they would have more choices. Maybe in the future as we fight this battle.