Silkie thread!

[bobbieschicks]

Even my LF don't like the shells. They prefer the sunflower seeds I get from the grocery that aren't salted and are already out of the shell. Everyone gobbles that stuff up.

I've been feeding my Grown silkies whole boss encased in the shell still, but they do not seem to enjoy them much. Maybe they aren't able to eat them as easily as the LF. My question is what is the general opinion on feeding them whole or cracked?

 

[dwegg]

Hey ScaredofShadows...i have a silkie just like yours..I must get a pic...mine looks white with a frosting of orange all over it....vrey cute

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

WHere would you get it cracked?

I can buy it as a bird seed shelled. Sunflower hearts is what they are referred to here. Mine will eat the stuff whole though, they love it.

 

[peepblessed]

I can buy it as a bird seed shelled. Sunflower hearts is what they are referred to here. Mine will eat the stuff whole though, they love it.

My whole flock love them whole.

 

[HEChicken]

My whole flock love them whole.

Mine too. My smallest bird is my bantam sultan but perhaps because for so long she was the lone bantam in a flock of LF, she learned to eat the same things they eat. So she eats the whole (not cracked) corn and whatever else I throw out to the rest of the flock, getting right there in the middle of them to make sure she gets her fair share.

 

[ChickensXOXO]

 

[HEChicken]

How precious are those chicks!

 

[mama2my4]

SO sweet!!!

 

[peepblessed]

Sweet, sweet, sweet!!

 

[TheChicknGarden]

Too stinking cute I can't wait till I can stick eggs under my girls...hopefully they'll all be girls lol Just haven't figures where I'd get eggs... So when you silkies go broody how long after do you put the eggs under them? What are the tall tale signs that. They are going broody?