The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[aaggjg]

I need sexing help with a silkie chick...6 weeks old..




I suck at photography...

LOL!!!! Yeah .... we might need to see the silkie in question in order to help you sex it ..... good thing you have weeks to practice

 

[MargaretYakoda]

Margaret loved coconut oil. It's good for the digestive tract for humans, so I can't see it being any different for chickens.

I rub it all over Chloe (poodle), and she has a good time grooming it off LOL. She had a tick I removed and tried to use coconut oil to battle any infection it could have caused. She ate it all... Silly girl. I used it for her sore nipples too when she was nursing.

Coconut oil is also good for the brain. Some studies have shown that about a tablespoon or so can actually reverse some of the damage done in early alzheimers.

It's also very good as a personal lubricant. 'Nuff said about that.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

ok how about a moulting 'pity party' with pics?

this is 'broke leg' (2 broken legs in 2 months thanks to a stubborn bird and a blind horse...)

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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I am still teaching myself to vent sex on one month old chicks. I am up to about 75% accurate. Also helps having color sexing chicks to compare with. But I am getting better. Hoping to be up to 90% by next year. Just takes practice, and since I am getting two incubators in a little over a month, I will have lots of chicks to practice on.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

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I am still teaching myself to vent sex on one month old chicks. I am up to about 75% accurate. Also helps having color sexing chicks to compare with. But I am getting better. Hoping to be up to 90% by next year. Just takes practice, and since I am getting two incubators in a little over a month, I will have lots of chicks to practice on.

 

[delisha]

Doc looks like a girl as a chick to me..
I hope this porcelain is a pullet.
Only one chick hatched out of a dozen..

(Shipped eggs)

 

[Leahs Mom]

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Because of that (alzheimers

) I sneak coconut oil into my dad's hot chocolate that he likes to drink at breakfast. He gets about a tablespoon a day and doesn't realize it. (Doesn't hurt that he's blind for that onel) But it smells so good and I actually like the taste of it just plain!

I guess my ouchie BR does too!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Turtle - is that vent sexing something you are doing just w/the silkies or can you do it with any breed?

And..how did you learn?

 

[Leahs Mom]

Quick broody update.

Even though they're on the roost at night, mamma did NOT kick them to the curb like she did last time. She's still hanging out with them and caring for them.

ETA: Just went out to be sure everyone got in and she's on the floor w/the kids in their place again after having spent 2 nights on the roost. So this is a new way of mothering for her.

 

[aoxa]

Doc looks like a girl as a chick to me..
I hope this porcelain is a pullet.
Only one chick hatched out of a dozen..

(Shipped eggs)

Everyone on the silkie thread had her pegged as a boy too. She had the slicked back hairdo and the masculine stance. Not how my silkie girls usually look!