Can someone please help me, I want to know all this information about setting up a cardboard box for the 6 silkies im gettin Eg:
.. how many watts would heat them up
.. What to feed them
.. what the tempreture should be (degrees Celcius if you can change them please.)
And much more
Thanks Sam
Articles specific to Australia below. Do read them: it's really important to have the temp right. Happy chooking.
http://www.petalia.com.au/Templates/StoryTemplate_Process.cfm?specie=&story_no=250
http://www.rarepoultry.net/Raising%20Young%20Poultry.htm
Thanks zeppy i really would be iterested in you telling me about your coop and all the stuff like that
This message was edited Sep 27, 2006 2:30 AM
It's in a link a few pages down:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/636104/
Wow thats impresive i wish i could have a copp like that, Why dont you have any silkies is it because you have all the good layers for egg just eggs not pets
Sammy, I love my silkie's eggs! They are tiny and perfect. However, she does go broody and want to hatch them about every 2 months, for about a month at a time! She's sit on anything, even a rock or a plastic egg!
Also, she cannot roost with everyone else, because she can't fly. I am planning on getting a couple of other silkies ( I hope!) before winter so I can make sure she has someone to cuddle u[p with on those cold nights!
I don't have silkies b/c my chickens are out in the weather a lot, and the cold and ice we get in the winter would be very hard on them. Their feathers aren't very good at keeping them warm or dry; that's why they're more of a pet or exhibition breed. I keep my girls for eggs and meat, so I get heavy dual purpose birds, for the most part.
Cool Back yard hens, i am getting 3 hens and 1 rooster
Zeppy, your unlucky because silkies are the best but you probable dont like them anyway
No, I think they're very cute. I have a neighbor with a lot of them so I see them plenty. They look like little Dr. Suess birds...
They are very cute. The broodiness is very strong in my silkie. I have heard that silkies are notoriously broody, so I recommend 3 nestboxes, that way if everyone goes broody at once everyone has a place to sit!
I always wondered what you do with a broody hen. I had one sit on a pile of eggs for several
months. I decided there was no way any of those eggs were good so I pulled her off and collected
the eggs. The first one exploded when it landed in the compost pile. I thew them all in there and
most also exploded. My oh my they were ripe!
Most often, my little black bantum cochin hens end up sitting on a turd for weeks or even months
before they give up. Should I just pick them up every day and encourage them to move on with
their lives?
And I had a silky. She was so pretty - I called her Phyllis after Phyllis Dillar, with a pouffy white
hat. She gave me a batch of chicks before a raccoon got her.
Tam
Well, I have these plastic easter eggs that I let my silkie brood on. I collect all other eggs under her each day. She doesn't care if it is a real eggor a plastic one. Eventually she gets over it. Every day I toss her (gently!) out of the coop and make sure she gets to water and food, but mostly I just let her be, because if she wants to chill out and miss all the exciting pecking/dustbathing outside, I guess that is her perogative, right? Doesn't seem to hurt her any, and I just have the chickens for fun.
I'm just waiting for the day she hatches out a little tiny plastic chick!
tammy did the sikie chicks get a chance to grow up or did a racoon get them too.
This message was edited Oct 1, 2006 7:19 AM
I'll have to get some of those plastic eggs. Much better than sittng on turds.
Sammy - the silkie chicks grew up & one of them (Liz) had a batch of chicks.
The daughter was Elizabeth (or Liz) as in Liz Taylor. She had very shiny black
feathers. I lost her & many of her sisters but her chicks survived. That was the
last time I lost chickens to raccoons. I caught all the raccoons in the area
(six in less than 2 wks) and released them far away. My DH buried heavy guage
wire fencing at the bottom's of the stalls in the barn & we shut the barn up tight
every night before dark. No loses since then.
Tam
Here's the grand-daughter of my silkie (Silkie was white fluffy Phyllis,
Daughter was shiney black Liz and this is Holly). Holly is in the foreground
and her uncle is the rooster.
Tam
well thats good to here, i cant lose my chickens to a raccoons but we can lose them to hawks,crows, eagles, rats, snakes & foxes so we have a fair rang in australia aswell
