Silkiecuddles Chat Thread!!! ANYBODY welcome!!!

[TamingMaster]

Well I wouldn't consider silkies the brains of chickens.
Captain Crestworth it is!

XD

Do you have a picture of Captain Crestworth?

 

[TamingMaster]

May I say, all good chat threads start with the naming of an animal. XD

 

[Mountain Peeps]

May I say, all good chat threads start with the naming of an animal. XD

Yeah

 

[silkiecuddles]

Captain Crestworth! It was originally Luna, because he was born on Lunar New Year, but then I was told by several silkie people that is was a male.

 

[silkiecuddles]

I have a disappearing chick mystery, if someone can help me solve it.
I have a silkie hen with 6 chicks, only one of them actually hers. This morning 1 got left in the coop and I forgot to let it out. I went out to look at my pidgies a few min ago, and the chick is gone! Not with the mom, or in the coop, or under the ramp.
There is either rat(s) or mice living underground of that coop, and I'm wondering if rats/mice eat chicks? It was a silkie mix chick, 1 month old.
I've had a chick disappear before, but it was 3 days old, and pure silkie, so it was super tiny.
But I don't know how the creature could of gotten poor chickie, because there are pigeons and a mama hen with 2 other chicks in the coop 24/7.
?????

 

[TamingMaster]

I have a disappearing chick mystery, if someone can help me solve it.
I have a silkie hen with 6 chicks, only one of them actually hers. This morning 1 got left in the coop and I forgot to let it out. I went out to look at my pidgies a few min ago, and the chick is gone! Not with the mom, or in the coop, or under the ramp.
There is either rat(s) or mice living underground of that coop, and I'm wondering if rats/mice eat chicks? It was a silkie mix chick, 1 month old.
I've had a chick disappear before, but it was 3 days old, and pure silkie, so it was super tiny.
But I don't know how the creature could of gotten poor chickie, because there are pigeons and a mama hen with 2 other chicks in the coop 24/7.
?????

Mice and rats would take a chick if there is no other foodstuffs available. Have you double checked, just to make sure the chick isn't just hidden really well?

 

[silkiecuddles]

I looked all over the coop, and there is always food at ground level

 

[TamingMaster]

I looked all over the coop, and there is always food at ground level

Hmm, is there any way it could of escaped?

 

[silkiecuddles]

I think if it had escaped it would of gone straight to its mom

 

[TamingMaster]

Well, then it's most likely that it could of been eaten.