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  1. Chicken_Trainer2007

    Can a regular silkie feather chickens produce a satin silkie?

    I couldn’t find any information about this online so I was wondering if you bred a regular show silkie to a satin silkie and kept a regular silkie feathered chick from the pair, wound that chick produce satins in his/her offspring making the silkie you held back “het satin” or will it just...
  2. C

    Chick’s back is featherless?

    This one hatched yesterday and looked like this today. What do we do? How do we help them? Any advice is appreciated. This is one of our silkie chicks, hatched with a piece of shell stuck to their back if that's any correlation. We think they may have rubbed the feathers off, they were still wet...
  3. KailuaSilkies

    What color is this silkie? 13 weeks

    The darker one is 13 weeks and seems to be a pullet. But her color is unlike what I’ve seen before. I say she’s dark chocolate with ashiness but my husband says more black/salt n pepper coloring. She is beautiful and tiny and a little skittish. Always has been. Fairly certain she is a girl. But...
  4. S

    What color are these 2 silkies

    These r 10 week old silkies except the satin roo might actually be older as crest started growing over a week before the others and crowed 3 weeks ago for first time. I know I have 1 black (crow), 1 blue (Sasha who I thought would b maybe but grew darker), and either paint/ splash( dizzy) who...
  5. harvestmoonica

    Updated Photos (Again!): Hens or Roosters?

    We are back from our honeymoon and it looks like our birds have already grown so much in just a few days! Also, we added a few new friends to the flock! We're feeling like Cotton might be a rooster (so hard at a young age, especially for silkies as we're learning) but there appears to be a V...
  6. L

    Prolapse tissue

    I have a 5.5 month old silkie who tried to lay her first egg. She might have pushed too hard that her insides came out. I managed to squeeze the egg out the prolapse sack but now dealing with the aftermath of keeping prolapse inside her. Picture included. is the yellow part still part of her...
  7. D

    Silkies or mixes?

    Hello! I’ve just hatched these beautiful babies:) I’m not sure if it’s even possible to tell this young, but I got these hatching eggs knowing they could be silkies or silkie mixes. The person I got them from said her silkies tended to stay with their own but she also kept a svarthona, a hmong...
  8. harvestmoonica

    Hen or Rooster? Updated Photos with Ages

    Some updated photos of our flock that includes their age and breed. Thoughts on hen or rooster for our flock? We're pretty sure Bonbon is a rooster... We're not allowed roosters in the city we live in 😭 Thanks in advance!
  9. A

    Silkie Chick Mites?

    Hey, I bought a pair of silkies from someone on facebook and after coming home and inspecting them I noticed one chick had a wound on its back neck and quite a few yellowish tiny bugs within its feathers and the other chick also had a couple of the yellowish bugs. Now I’m worried to introduce...
  10. FowlBrain

    Happy Healthy Chickens in need of GOOD home in Hendersonville, NC!

    Hello chicken lovers! I love these birds but I was DUPED by ye-old Tractor Supply shortly after Hurricane Helene and ended up with some breeds I can't manage in my small flock, including a rooster that was supposed to be a pullet (begging others NOT to buy from TSC anymore! They're AWFUL!!!) I...
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  12. L

    Help! Silkie hen can’t stand up

    i have a roughly 20 month old silkie hen. She has been super broody the past 10 days and have been pulling her out of the nesting box every day to try break it, but she would also sometimes get kicked out by my 2 bantam Cochins who also wanted to use this particular box. They would sometimes...
  13. U

    Need to rehome 3 very sweet 3mo roosters...

    Hi, I'm in Grantsville, Utah and I am desperately searching for anyone that will take my sweet boys free of charge. We know we can't have roosters in our city and we've only recently confirmed that all 3 of them are roosters. Our neighbors have complained to the city about their crowing and now...
  14. C

    Silkie with bad sour crop

    My 1.5 y/o silkie hen has really bad sourcrop. I have her inside and the smell coming from her pen area and near her is just completely foul. Her crop is so big and squishy. She’s having diarrhea that also smells horrid. She is just sitting and not really moving. I have only water with some ACV...
  15. C

    Silkie hen suddenly acting sick- help

    I’m a bit stumped on this. My hen suddenly is acting sick. I noticed on the camera she had been laying around in one spot for hours so i went out and checked on her. She did come right up to me and come out of the run for a bit. But she is puffed up, feathers drooped, lethargic, bigish squishy...
  16. bluesqw

    What color is this silkie chick?

    I just hatched 3 eggs from my chocolate silkie hen and she made 3 different colored babies. Mauve, Blue and whatever this color is? I’m trying to figure out what color this exactly is and which of my Roos could be the dad. I have a blue silkie roo, a blue mottled silkie roo and a black mottled...
  17. Kiwi_The__arnevelder

    My Silkie’s feathers are not the same!

    I have had my Silkie for a year now and when we first got her she had a head full of feathers like a pompom and she was also alot fluffier. Now one year later her head feathers won’t grow back since i cut them many many months ago and they also shrank significantly. Even her body feathers are...
  18. tomo0003

    A cross between a Silky and a Polish. No gender differences

    First of all, is it common to crossbreed a Silkie and Polish?I don't think so. So, I have the chick that I’m hopping to get soon. The fact that it is silky makes it difficult to determine its gender.Those of you with experience, what do you think?
  19. B

    Do your silkies roost?

    Hi all! We have our first batch of baby silkies and I’m wondering as they mature what type of coop accommodations they will need. Will they walk up a ramp and roost along with my regular flock of chickens? Do they need a separate area to make a “cuddle puddle”? Do they need nesting boxes on...
  20. B

    Does Silkie behavior indicate gender? Pics included!

    Hello all! I am estimating this chick to be around 8 weeks old. It has never been gentle, from the get-go has pecked other chicks, jumped up and kicked them, bumped chests, constantly stirring up my little chick group. Do you see this behavior as rooster behavior? She behaves like a dominant...
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