Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

It took me a month of daily checking my local facebook groups but my search for a silkie hen is over. A post was finally listed within a 3 hour one way driving distance, every other add I was finding was 6+ hours one way. Everyone meet Chiquita! She is a 2 1/2 year old hen in the color I wanted. She was being rehomed because she and their 2 other silkies, both males, were being beat up by their larger flock memebers. I was warned though when I picked her up this evening, she went broody and had to be broken up 10 times last year. She was allowed her first year to hatch and raise 2 clutches of chicks so when she goes broody on me I know she is a proven momma. Since I got home late she is spending the night inside in the cat carrier. Tomorrow I'll fix up her quarantine area.
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She's so pretty!!! Congrats!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

RIP Burtle This morning he wasn't moving, not making a sound, just looked like he couldn't breathe properly so I quickly dislocated his neck with the painless broomstick method. Poor boy. I wonder what was wrong with him.

Oh I'm so very sorry for yall!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

It took me a month of daily checking my local facebook groups but my search for a silkie hen is over. A post was finally listed within a 3 hour one way driving distance, every other add I was finding was 6+ hours one way. Everyone meet Chiquita! She is a 2 1/2 year old hen in the color I wanted. She was being rehomed because she and their 2 other silkies, both males, were being beat up by their larger flock memebers. I was warned though when I picked her up this evening, she went broody and had to be broken up 10 times last year. She was allowed her first year to hatch and raise 2 clutches of chicks so when she goes broody on me I know she is a proven momma. Since I got home late she is spending the night inside in the cat carrier. Tomorrow I'll fix up her quarantine area.
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Congrats on your new girl!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

RIP Burtle This morning he wasn't moving, not making a sound, just looked like he couldn't breathe properly so I quickly dislocated his neck with the painless broomstick method. Poor boy. I wonder what was wrong with him.

I am so truly sorry for your loss. Anyway you can have a necropsy performed on him to find out what he had? Perhaps if you contact your county animal health department they can help you.

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

I am so truly sorry for your loss. Anyway you can have a necropsy performed on him to find out what he had? Perhaps if you contact your county animal health department they can help you.

Thank you,
He is buried now anyway but if I have another one like it then I might have to look into it.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Thank you,
He is buried now anyway but if I have another one like it then I might have to look into it.

Could be Mareks, only way to know is to have the body tested. Hopefully it will not happen again.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Well... the little black polkie is getting a fuller girly looking crest, walks like a female, comb still looks the same (pretty much flat)... anddd check this out. Found an old post with a polkie that ended up being female.. same color of flat wattles..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/polish-silkie-cross.184462/post-9622591

I'm back on team girl for polkie!

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

Question for ya'll, I'm starting a bantam flock should i get splash silkies, black silkies and surprise silkies, or surprise silkies splash silkies and Mille fleur D'uccles?

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Splash, splash, and D'uccles

When you order splash, they might have varied levels of splash and still look different. And D'uccles, because ❤

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Reasons I don't own silkies:
"Looks like a dust mop"
"Too hard to maintain"
"Poor immune system"
"Dumber than rocks"
"0 predator awareness"
And oh, so much more.

But hey, they can be cute.