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Spoiled Silkies by Erin

I breed Silkies, Satins, Frizzles, and Showgirls! I do ship! KY NPIP #61-611 AI clean. I am a one woman show! This is my opinion on hatching chicks. Then pictures!
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There is A LOT that goes into hatching Silkie chicks. It first starts with the coop mates. They have to be in great shape health wise to mate. Silkies are not owned for their egg production, they may only lay 2-3 a week. INCUBATION: I hover over my incubators like a nervous new momma! Making sure they’re all rotating properly and constantly adjusting the humidity. I usually candle at 7 and at day

18. Sometimes the egg was infertile or it dies in the process. On day 18 they go into lockdown where you don’t open the incubator until they’ve all hatched, which doesn’t always happen. Sometimes a baby comes out the wrong end or on the side and you have to “assist” and pray you only peel the shell and outer membrane. If you peel the inner membrane you have a bloody mess and it runs the risk of the chick being weak or not surviving at all. I don’t sleep much during hatch days. Some chicks if left to long in the incubator get shrink wrapped and die. So, a constant vigil is necessary for me. They fluff up in the incubator for 12-24 hours then they’re moved to the brooder. The brooder needs to maintain at 95 degrees the first week then had to be reduced 5 degrees down every week after that which can be tricky with them moving around and getting bigger. Sometimes you have chicks with curled feet, which you have to tape to straighten them. Or splayed/straddle leg, in this case you have to put a band on them to keep their legs/hips tight. Both only take a few days to fix. Then food and water. Not just any food, chick starter with protein and electrolytes in the water. Silkies are known to have Vitamin deficiencies so I watch very carefully throughout the first week for any signs then give them the proper vitamins. Some chicks thrive others not so much. Some are weak and just can’t make it. Changing the brooder paper is done twice a day so they don’t sneeze from the dust they kick up with their food. They’re fed fresh food three times a day and they tend to poo in their water so that is changed twice a day. Little butts are trimmed to keep pasty butt to a minimum. Pasty butt gunks up their vent with poo and if you can’t poo…another constant vigil. I check all butts twice a day. Pictures so you can see these beautiful babies. This is just the first week…. all to bring you these amazing fluff balls called Silkies. I don’t do this for the money. No one makes money doing this, a least not that I know of in the three years I’ve been hatching. It’s for everything you’ve read above to bring this beautiful breed to life.

11/21/2024

***UFD***
1. Buff Frizzle Young 💙 $2️⃣5️⃣
2. Buff Frizzle Unbearded Pullet 🩷 $1️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
Don’t have to be bought together.
Located in Oak Grove, KY NPIP 61-611
Can 🚢 Dec 2. Small deposit required to hold. Text with questions 850-246-0032

11/20/2024

***UFD***
1. White Satin NN Pullet $1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣*SOLD*
2. White Satin Pullet $1️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
3. “Frosty” White Satin Frizzle Roo-FREE
Can 🚢 Dec 2 OR can bring to BROWNSVILLE show
Located in Oak Grove, KY NPIP 61-611
850-246-0032 text with questions.

11/20/2024

****SOLD****
UFD! White Satin Frizzle Hen! 1-1.5 years old. Good wings, looking for a new flock!
Can 🚢 Dec 2! Located in Oak Grove, KY
NPIP 61-611 $1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣

11/20/2024

***SOLD****
UFD- This little girl is super unique! She’s a Mauve Silkie Frizzle and has light skin. She’s a sweetie! And a talker! Text me if you’re interested! Located in Oak Grove, KY NPIP 61-611 850-246-0032
$1️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

11/18/2024

🌺🌺UFD🐥STRAIGHT RUN🌺🌺
Hatched 10/5-10/10 still on light heat
Can 🚢 11/18 & 11/19 with heat packs $5️⃣ each
Shipping box $2️⃣0️⃣
Or can go 🚘 on transport.
Located in Oak Grove, KY
KY NPIP 61-611
Text with questions 850-246-0032
🌺To order-text me with screenshot, I will send back additional pictures of birds. Small deposit required to hold birds🌺
Silkies & Satins-$2️⃣5️⃣
NN/SG-$3️⃣0️⃣
Frizzles-$3️⃣5️⃣
Adults as marked
Please share! 😊

11/17/2024

How many Chocolate & Mauves are touching the box?
I literally picked the box up just like that, put it outside the pen, they waited through the photography session, and pen cleaning, I picked it up just like that and put it back in the pen and noone cared. Broodies!

11/17/2024

😂 My neck is killing me!!!

11/17/2024

First Blue Cream/ Isabelle/ Porcelain Satin Frizzle baby! Of course, I can’t find a picture of his dad! Crap.

11/17/2024

Uh…. I wanna go on vaca with him!!!!!

11/16/2024

FINISHING UP STRAIGHT RUN CHICK PICS TODAY! Hopefully will post tonight…. Along with adults still available. Can 🚢 Monday & Tuesday.

11/16/2024

I found my dog playing with this Cottontail today. Her back legs don’t work and I think she was stuck out in the yard then Rosie decided to play with her. Rosie is a 10 month old Aussie Pyrenees. She’s super gentle, she’s played with chickens before and never had a puncture wound on them. I scooped the bunny up and checked her for injuries and I found nothing. I wonder if she was hit by a car. Anyway, I have her in a pen not sure if she’s eating or drinking, but she’s peeing and pooping. I bet she would do fine in a wheelchair but I’m not a bunny person. And she’s wild. I hate to put her down…. I figured the rehabilitation center would probably put her down… any other suggestions?

11/16/2024

Don’t we all know this feeling? 😂

11/15/2024

I just love this Chocolate boy! He’s so sweet, and he’s gonna be huge! Look at his feet feathers compared to my hand! And his wings are massive! I can’t wait to see him fill out! NFS

11/15/2024

One of my favorite girls….

11/14/2024

FREAK’N MITES!!!!! ☠️

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How many Chocolate & Mauves are touching the box? I literally picked the box up just like that, put it outside the pen, they waited through the photography session, and pen cleaning, I picked it up just like that and put it back in the pen and noone cared. Broodies!

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Real live porcupine!!!!

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Go Bella Go!!!

Look at my baby!!! She looks good from any angle! She’s my Cruella! NFS

Violet my lavender momma hatched 4 babies and two are lavender!!! And she adopted two other babies!

Baby Black Mottled running

Little Minky…

This little baby has been in the coop for two days now with about 10 other hatch mates. Today this little one leaves the coop and is chirping up a storm. I walk over and pick her up. I swung on the swing and talked to her, let her snuggle in my neck. It was getting dark so I put the baby back in the coop and went back to the swing. Here comes baby right over to me. I reach down pick her up and swing some more. Put her back in the coop and she follows me around in the coop wanting to be held. I hold her for a minute then stick her under Tyra one of my broody hens. She loved it and when I closed them up she was still with Tyra. She is the cutest baby! She looks like she has snowshoes on!

New Roo thought he found a goodie!

My dog Bella is a Toy Aussie Shepard and my friends bring her down these small little nubby balls. They fit perfectly in her tiny mouth so we call them “Bella balls”.