silkies

[SonRise Silkies]

I don't know what happened to the original poster to all this...hope they are still with us.

Yes, the sort of half upstairs is really a wonderful thing, like I said I have a big cage up there with heat lamp and it is all eye level, the feed and water are real accessible to me to take care of, the birds are easy to reach and very easy to see and watch.

Plus if there is room [which I do have] I keep my jug of vitamin water there, a coffee can of crumbles, and scratch, and flash light, basket for collecting egss, anything I might need that I don't want to go hunt. Even extra light bulbs. and a towel for me [or them]

I hate to keep sending pics but here is an example of how I can stick my head inside and take pics!!!!!
This would be great for the little chicks pics!!!!

 

[miss heny]

well i never had silkies chicks I have read that you need to feed layer crumbles and check for fles and lice each week and every month spray the coop with a earth i can't think of the name for lice

 

[brendapa]

Miss Henny!

You're still here

As you can see, silkies can be a little dim. They are very affectionate & docile creatures.
I see you have 6 other roosters along with 1 hen?
I would keep them separate from any other other roosters/breed bigger than them.
You will love silkies, they are really pets.

When will you be getting them? Please post pic's of the babies when they arrive.

Good luck

Brenda

 

[SonRise Silkies]

Oh, you were wanting a whole different thing.

Feed the chicks a chick starter, but there is also a start-gro-lay feed that will take care of them till grown and laying.

You can provide a dust bath for them, include a little seven dust or chicken dust [from the feed store] and they will take care of it themselves.

You do need to worm them but I don't think I ever heard of fleas on a chicken, mites are not good to have though.
The seven dust will take care of any pests on the birds or in the coop.

Does this help at all???

 

[nissa_loves_cats]

My two silkies roost on a low (2 ft.) roost along with their turkey 'mama', maybe because they want to be above the ducks? But when they were (briefly) free-ranging and the turkey slept on a low tree branch the silkies slept on a stump.

 

[GotChicken?]

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Well, from my current experience, it depends on what kind of influence. I have two 2 1/2 week old Silkie chicks who not only roost, but the bigger one flies up a foot to the the top of the brooder to roost! But I'm sure it has nothing to do with the two 4 week old FCB Maran chicks in the next brooder setting the example.

 

[Rachelj07]

I love the loft idea!

now I know what I'm going to be asking the BF to make next. Silkies are the best though! I'm looking to expand on the three I have. My silkies will have the chicken condo at our place. They have an outdoor run, a covered patio and then the inside coop, they are sooooo spoiled. I find they are just about easier to care for then chickens because the are so small! My hens love the nesting boxes they got. They are set way lower then our Standards, though they would use those ones too before I moved them. They have a short little roost that they enjoy running back and forth on (how they don't fall I don't know). I hope you don't mind if I take and use the loft idea!! Thanks

 

[SonRise Silkies]

Absolutely use the loft. It is great and once you get it you will think of lots of other things to do with it too.
I was just out cleaning and everything and every body under the loft is spotless!
I have the ground boxes set under the loft, so no one can soil it from above.
I had to add some new nest boxes today....spring has hit them and they are busy, busy busy.

You might be surprised at which birds will want to go up higher to perch and lay eggs. I think it is just natural for some.

One thing for sure it gives you a lot more space in the same size area.

When you just don't have tons of room it helps to be able to keep the chicks or smaller younger birds in the same chicken house but not on the floor with the others. I kept my young Silkies up on the shelf in a big cage with a heat lamp and they grew up in the chicken house this winter but had very special "room" of their own. It saved the day!!!! I had no where else put them and didn't want to let them just fend for themselves with the adults.

Now they are big and the cage is a Serama house. It was a cold snowy winter in OK and having everyone under one roof and yet all separate and secure was a blessing.
Cheryl

 

[miss heny]

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my saying is from a few years ago i had 6 roo and 1 hen but i move and ate 5 roos and gave the hen and the 1 roo to a friend

 

[miss heny]

well the cakle could not send my silkies