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[Smittenroade]

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[txmel]

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Hi Miss red,
I noticed that you said you were breaking your little broody silkie ... can I ask you what method you use to break her?
This is my first time with my girls going broody and since I have no Rooster, they are just sitting there and I don't know what to do...

If anyone else has any ideas on how to help them through their broody time, please let me know. I just learned that they get weak and could die because they don't eat as much and so now I am worried. I do take them off their nest everyday and take them out in the front yard and make them eat and walk around but they are just so anxious to get back...

Thanks in advance...

i put my broody in chicken jail, which is a wire cage up on blocks so it a about 4 inches off the ground, i leave her in there for about 3 night/days with food and water of course. then when i take them out they usually are broke. i think the idea is to make it so they cant get their bums all nice and warm, hence the wire bottom of the cage suspended off the ground. hope this is of some help. i have one silkie that has gone broody about 5 times since this summer. in fact she is broody right now but i think its too cold where i am to place her in the cage so as of right now i just take her off the nest every time i go out to the coop. hope this helps some good luck

 

[vebyrd36]

I lost a rooster, the petroleum jelly did not work to stop frostbite. We had windchills to -15. Just now getting water back up.

 

[shesaredroan]

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So sorry vebyrd, I hope he wasn't your favorite roo.

Your Odessa temps make ours around Cleburne seem warm. Let's hope the rest of our winter isn't so hard and goes by quickly!!

 

[Silver Spring Waterfowl]

If the petroleum jelly didn't work, consider using lanolin. You can get what would probably be a lifetime supply (1 lb) for less than $20 online at Wholesale Supplies Plus. (I don't have the actual link handy, just google it.) That is a soap and candle making supply. It's cosmetic grade but I use it for all kinds of things besides soap. A little bit goes a long way and it can be purchased natural or de-scented.

A more immediate option is the baby supplies section at CVS. Look for a product called Lansinoh. It's for treating sore nipples for mothers who are breastfeeding. It's a small lavender/purple & white tube of very pure (pharmaceutical grade) lanolin. Lanolin has amazing healing properties as well as creating a moisture barrier (which is all the PET does). It's more expensive, but it has no flavor, won't hurt your birds or anyone else you use it on, and is better for preventing and healing chapped lips that anything else! I highly recommend it!

 

[BooBear]

Howdy,

I just found this thread.

This winter is too yo yo for me this year. I really hate that we go from nice 60 to 70 degree temps and plumet to freezing temps. I feel sorry for folks getting snowed in; however, I would rather have snow than ice.

Hope everyone is staying warm.

 

[shesaredroan]

Welcome BooBear.

Glad you found us.
Yep, our weather has been harsh for the last couple of weeks. Tonight is suppose to be our coldest night of the year, but Sat & Sun we'll be in the 60s. Yo yo weather is right!!

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

yes I lost 5 chickens they were Silkies. what makes me mad is I just got them a few days before the storms. If I had known they were coming I would have waited till the snow and really cold weather was past us. I did get them locked up, but apparently they wanted out and could not get back in and froze I was so heart broken dh waited to tell me till I got home. Everyone at work knows how I love my chickens.

I will get more when this crazy weather is behind us.

BooBear welcome to BackYard Chickens you will surely learn alot from this site and this group. I have owned my chickens now for 2 years this summer and I am always learning something new. Oh and I used to live in Conroe as well. I do not remember the main street we lived of off but I do remember before we moved they were just starting to build the college. I was on the street across from it or not to far from it if I remember right. But way off the main road. I was in a community of mobile homes. I moved up here to the fort worth area 17 yrs ago. Been in Decatur area for almost 3yrs now.

watch out chickens are adicting

deana

 

[easttxchick]

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What is the entry deadline for Beaumont? I haven't been able to find it on the YMBL site-if I missed it...

 

[Sharylva]

Glad to know we have so many fellow Texans