AMKuska
Garden Master
I'm only writing this here because I'm still trying to wrap my brain around what happened. I have two pens for silkies, a black silkie pen and a white silkie pen. They are both on opposite sides of the yard.
Today, my neighbor asked to borrow a ladder, which was by the black silkie pen. I went to get it and got there just in time to see the black silkie hens tearing apart a white silkie chick. I don't believe it is possible for black silkies to produce white chicks. I have no idea how the chick managed to get in there. It's fully dry and ambulatory, so it's not a fresh, fresh chick. There's no broken egg shells in the coop--heck, there were no eggs!
I scattered them and took the silkie, and my neighbor got to hold a baby chick while I brought the ladder over. S/he is now in a little box recovering, but has a pretty good chunk taken out of it. I'm not sure it's going to live, but I'm calling it "Lucky" because had I not happened upon it at that exact time it would be a dead chick.
The best I can think of is that it somehow got separated from mama, wiggled through the wire, couldn't get back in the white silkie coop, somehow survived wandering over to the black silkie coop, only to be captured by angry hens.
That or perhaps it's some kind of double recessive gene?
Today, my neighbor asked to borrow a ladder, which was by the black silkie pen. I went to get it and got there just in time to see the black silkie hens tearing apart a white silkie chick. I don't believe it is possible for black silkies to produce white chicks. I have no idea how the chick managed to get in there. It's fully dry and ambulatory, so it's not a fresh, fresh chick. There's no broken egg shells in the coop--heck, there were no eggs!
I scattered them and took the silkie, and my neighbor got to hold a baby chick while I brought the ladder over. S/he is now in a little box recovering, but has a pretty good chunk taken out of it. I'm not sure it's going to live, but I'm calling it "Lucky" because had I not happened upon it at that exact time it would be a dead chick.
The best I can think of is that it somehow got separated from mama, wiggled through the wire, couldn't get back in the white silkie coop, somehow survived wandering over to the black silkie coop, only to be captured by angry hens.
That or perhaps it's some kind of double recessive gene?
