The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[nicole63021]

Getting excited here!!!!! Our BR pullet started squating yesterday, and did is several times today!!! Can't wait for that first egg from our flock!!!

 

[Mrs Hutcherson]

No I don't have any. Thanks, shes doing very well. Shes pretty bald and I didn't know if that would make them peck her as well as the wounds.

 

[Scott H]

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I did do that today...took all of 15 minutes! Hope they have enough venting up high now. Time will tell. I put our coop build thread in my sig line if you want to see more detail of the inside. I also stupidly deleted some photos a while back and they don't show in this thread anymore. Can't even edit it to replace them. What's up with that? But if you scroll though you can find inside pics later on in the thread.
Here's a picture that shows the bridge the coop is tucked under. Saves us a lot of outside steps!



You can see the girls (and us too) get lots of exercise living on a 25 degree hill. You wouldn't want to eat their drumsticks.....

 

[Scott H]

No I don't have any. Thanks, shes doing very well. Shes pretty bald and I didn't know if that would make them peck her as well as the wounds.

Never tried it but if you search the site for it it is supposed to keep chickens from pecking wounds and is an antiseptic too.

Here's the search for you....

 

[delisha]

In my experience silkies are very hard to sex until a lot later than most breeds, my friend had a silkie that was hen like for weeks but then became very rooster ish, and I have a silkie cross that was like a hen until quite late and then suddenly boomed into a rooster, if I was u I would put a strange hen in with it and see how it reacts

I do not have any birds that are strangers to each other..all of my birds are loose. The bird is a baby and acts like all baby's. It does not display any sexual tendency.

Delisha it looks girlish to me - has it ever pecked at your fingers? Someone once tipped me off to only male youngsters pecking at my hands, and so far that's been dead on. Any chick that has pecked at my hands has been male.

No pecking yet..snuggling yes..likes my hands and wants to get picked up.

Getting excited here!!!!! Our BR pullet started squating yesterday, and did is several times today!!! Can't wait for that first egg from our flock!!!

how exciting..

No I don't have any. Thanks, shes doing very well. Shes pretty bald and I didn't know if that would make them peck her as well as the wounds.

I need a picture of her..close up of the wounds..

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I did do that today...took all of 15 minutes! Hope they have enough venting up high now. Time will tell. I put our coop build thread in my sig line if you want to see more detail of the inside. I also stupidly deleted some photos a while back and they don't show in this thread anymore. Can't even edit it to replace them. What's up with that? But if you scroll though you can find inside pics later on in the thread.
Here's a picture that shows the bridge the coop is tucked under. Saves us a lot of outside steps!



You can see the girls (and us too) get lots of exercise living on a 25 degree hill. You wouldn't want to eat their drumsticks.....
Your birds, home, yard, and coop are so adorable.

 

[Mrs Hutcherson]

Thanks ill check it out

 

[Mrs Hutcherson]

She had a 2"+ tear on the back of her neck thats healing well, the top of her head, a torn earlobe and a small cut above the other ear

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

The new chicks are growing..



My boy is almost all grown up





what sex is this silkie....

Beautiful!

 

[delisha]

She had a 2"+ tear on the back of her neck thats healing well, the top of her head, a torn earlobe and a small cut above the other ear

It looks to be healing well..
putting the bird onthe other side of a fence makes birds territorial. They have a pecking order and can get very aggressive with a fence.
Take your top bird and place it with this bird where you are housing her and watch the behavior. Do not let them in with the group for a few days until the two bond. It might take a while so be patient. Once they bond and hang together..put them in the coop at night after dark next to each other.

 

[Pozees]

It looks to be healing well..
putting the bird onthe other side of a fence makes birds territorial. They have a pecking order and can get very aggressive with a fence.
Take your top bird and place it with this bird where you are housing her and watch the behavior. Do not let them in with the group for a few days until the two bond. It might take a while so be patient. Once they bond and hang together..put them in the coop at night after dark next to each other.

Brilliant, I would never have thought of this.