Davis Silkies

16/12/2024

Meet Scarlett, our second Buff Pullet 🧡

So grateful for great Silkie Breeders like Spoiled Silkies by Erin

You lady, helped make my naked neck Buffy dreams come true 🫶🏻 love you long time lady-o 😘😘😘

12/12/2024

My LED Neon sign arrived this evening 🫶🏻

I can’t stop staring. 🥹🤩

11/12/2024

💕Two Pretty Silkie pullets 💕
heading to Brande Wijn With Rustic Roost Silkies 💕

So glad these girls have a fantastic place to call home.

10/12/2024

A must read to understand Quarantining. I love learning from those with experience

So much great information from Holly 🫶🏻

A couple thoughts for the day. Before chick season starts..let's talk abt quarantine and mixing newly purchased birds together. Older or younger..doesn't matter. Rules are the same. Do not mix birds together from different breeders, farms or hatcheries. It doesn't matter if the breeders know eachother and share birds. If you want your flock to stay healthy then just say no. Quarantine separately for 30 days minimum. Each group must not be close to eachother for 30 days. This doesn't mean that the breeders have nasty birds or that they have diseases but every farm has its own funk or bacteria. Some mesh and some don't.

 If your newly purchased poultry are stressed, they can do what is known as “shedding”.  This means that “things” such as Coccidiosis or Salmonella etc., which is found in all birds, becomes “active” and “contagious”.  

Now I know you are going to say “well if it is common, so what” right?  Wrong..when it becomes active it can make the birds weak and it can spread to the rest of your healthy flock or other healthy chicks.  

This does not mean in any way that the birds you purchased from someone were sick when you purchased them; this is a very regular occurrence that can happen no matter how healthy the bird is.  You can go to a farm that has NEVER had a problem at all with any of it and the birds get stressed in transport and BAM, it is active.  

Coccidiosis is natural and found in most ground/property, the issue is there are many strains of it that the birds can have.  While birds on a farm can be immune to the ones on the ground they currently walk on, does not mean they will be immune to the strain on your farm and in a weakened state because of stress, it can make them sick.  30 Days is a very descent amount of time to allow the birds to get adjusted to their new ground, feed, and owners and get over the stress of being moved from one farm to another.  

Too many times I see on here how entire flocks have been “culled” because of the birds going under stress, shedding and then passing on things to the rest of the flock.  Please be patient and allow all new purchases to get accustomed to their new home.

05/12/2024

I am so blessed and thankful to have friends that gift hatching eggs 🫶🏻

Rustic Roost Silkies thank you for sharing your black, chocolate, and paint bloodline. I’m so lucky to have friends like you ❤️🥹

I absolutely feel like I’ve won the lottery with three naked necks chocolate silkie chicks 🐣

02/12/2024

It’s tough when you lose a bird. I lost one of my gray girls today, taking my trio down to a pair.

Sometimes when cold winter comes, birds go.

Bye bye little honey girl 🥹

28/11/2024

Thankful for Rustic Roost Silkies for sharing this distinguished gentle c**k bird. He should be integrated in with his white hens in two weeks 🫶🏻

What are you thankful for?

28/11/2024

🍁 Happy Thanksgiving🍁
Make today a wonderful 🦃 day 🙌
So thankful you’re here 🫶🏻

Lavender/Cuckoo: NFS
Breeder credit: Spoiled Silkies by Erin

28/11/2024

A little pop of color for the upcoming holidays ❤️🎄

27/11/2024

I couldn’t resist all the fun Christmas hats and scarfs. ❤️🎄Stay tuned for more holiday photos 🫶🏻

23/11/2024

I’ve got several September Hatchlings looking for their new coop. Message me to discuss.

Pickup in Burns or arrange transportation. Message me to discuss.

**kerels

16/11/2024

Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands. Today was a was busy day building out 20 feet of the silkie barn.

10/11/2024

And we have metal on the roof 🥹 So grateful for Josh and Jack!

Once we can have a break in the rain 🌧️, hopefully 🤞🏼 next weekend, we will have a couple upper areas ready to move some silkies into their new home.

I’m looking forward to easier winter maintenance and care.

08/11/2024

Excited to use our new Quarantine Zone for today’s new arrivals. Super stoked for my boys from Rustic Roost Silkies and lavender from Spoiled Silkies by Erin.

Thank you ladies for helping me bring new blood to the hood.

Sometimes it takes years to make colored pens and I am here for that journey.

06/11/2024

My girl, Sally 🫶🏻
A blue, black splash Showgirl. 💙🖤💦

30/10/2024

Our chick care tips and temp chart is ready! Thank you Kendrah Killebrew with Killebrew Family Farm for collaborating on these 💕

29/10/2024

Progress is good. 😌