Offer - Free to good home: white silkie bantam cockerel

jack russell · « **Reply #15 on:** June 10, 2008, 11:25 »

I sit on that chair and offer food as i dont want him turning on me the way my wellsummer cock has i now have a nice hole in my leg from his attacks :evil:

he really is well mannered and lets the girls eat first

SnooziSuzi · « **Reply #16 on:** June 10, 2008, 21:25 »

Wow! he looks a million times better than the last time I saw him!

Glad he's happy with your girls - any sign of one of the girls going broody again for him? (want some chickie pics!

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Snap Dragon · « **Reply #17 on:** June 10, 2008, 21:56 »

How beautiful are they!

Gorgeous pics.... just makes me want chooks (esp silkies) even more!

Thanks for posting the pics.. wouldn't baby silkies be the perfect happy ending!

jack russell · « **Reply #18 on:** June 10, 2008, 22:33 »

I would love them too

But she has stopped sitting at the moment although he is definitely treading them both :oops: lucky lad i hope she goes broody again soon and if so i will let you know

andy8313 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 19, 2008, 18:55 »

hi i am intrested in the cockerel i have three silkie hens bbut tey live in me garden and never had a cockerel due to fear off him making too much noise would he be very noisey

SnooziSuzi · « **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2008, 19:12 »

sorry andy but JR has homed him but I'll keep my eyes and ears open in case there are more going!

Try www.ad-trader.co.uk in the 'livestock' and then 'other animals' section - there's loads of birds for sale in the North East in there.

Good Luck

BTW, Jack, how are things going with them now?

Jellyhead · « **Reply #21 on:** June 19, 2008, 19:18 »

Aaaah that truly is a happy ending

They sure is Luverly chooks

jack russell · « **Reply #22 on:** June 19, 2008, 21:20 »

She is sitting tight for the last few days but, didn't want to count my chickens before.......... :roll: so I hope she stays there. I noticed that the other silkie is climbing into the same nest box and laying in there with no confrontation from mrs broody. Would it be right or wrong to move her and her eggs into a separate shed which i have ready for more chooks until she has hatched them out.

I am very excited

Jellyhead · « **Reply #23 on:** June 19, 2008, 21:25 »

I wouldn't like to answer that one JR. I have had broodies sit together, hatch together and then be mummies together but the last time I let 2 sit, one of them killed the other ones chick which I understand can be normal :shock: :shock: I wouldn't expect that from a Silkie tho :roll:

jack russell · « **Reply #24 on:** July 04, 2008, 00:53 »

Just an update

she is still sitting tight it is approx 19 days now. Her Poo is very messy and smelly this could be the fact that she does not move from the eggs for any time period. I think she is kinda holding on as long as she can before she goes :oops: The other hen is also broody but i do see her wandering around now and then. Fingers crossed.

SnooziSuzi · « **Reply #25 on:** July 04, 2008, 10:11 »

I read somewhere (might have been on this forum or might have been in Practical Poultry) that you need to move them off the eggs manually otherwise they would just starve themselves :shock:

It sounds plausible, but not sure where I saw it

Do you think the eggs are from the welsummer or from the silkie cock?

jack russell · « **Reply #26 on:** July 04, 2008, 11:56 »

Su I have put food and water in the nest box with her and she has been eating and drinking

The silkies are in the chester plot and the Wellsummer at Ouston so no chance the bairns will be his :shock: phew they would be ugly

Do you buy your feed from the little place in Sacriston up by the traffic lights.

SnooziSuzi · « **Reply #27 on:** July 04, 2008, 23:44 »

no I go to the one near the garage and post office, further down as if you were going to Edmondsley.

Didn't know the guy next to the traffic lights did chook food... I'll have to look out for some next time

jack russell · « **Reply #28 on:** July 07, 2008, 21:28 »

well here is the happy ending we were all waiting for, two chooks hatched today with three more eggs under her to go

One light and one dark so far

aww

blulagoo · « **Reply #29 on:** July 07, 2008, 22:50 »

CONGRATULATIONS!! They are fantastic - this is a truly happy ending.

Well done to you all.

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