As far as egg laying, silkies and sizzles lay about the same size egs and lay the same amount. Our polish is our best layer. She lays surprisingly large eggs and about 5 times a week.
Just had these silkies hatch today. Curious if anyone knew how to tell color at such a young age. They came out of buff, blue, black, and white silkies all mixed in one pen... I think i have 3 splash, 2 white and 2 buff. here are pictures of a few.
I thought this guy was blue at first, but...
We LOVE our Silkies and Sizzles. I say get both. I do have to say, the Silkies aren't very smart, can't fly, can't see very good, and aren't very good layers. But, they are the nicest birds we have and they are so funny to watch. The sizzles are a little bit smarter, still not the best layers...
Just got these 3 Sizzles yesterday. I couldn't turn them down because of the patterns that these things had. I picked the three that appeared to be less of a rooster than the others. That was just judging by combs. The ones i got don't have any sign of a comb and most of the others did have...
Update: The blue one turned out to be a hen. She laid her first egg today and has turned out to be one of my best looking chickens (I'll try to get some updated pictures today). The partridge one, (although he isn't really partridge, I don't know what else to call him) I'm almost certain is a...
Yeah, I was a little upset when she feathered out and was not laced. But slowly she became more laced instead of spangled. We are still waiting for her tail feathers to become laced.
Hello all! Now that my Gold Laced Polish hen is finally laying, I am planning on breeding her with my Buff Silkie rooster. What can I expect the chicks coloring to look like? Is there any chance of keeping the lacing? Color genetics confuse the mess out of me. Here they are.
I had one polish chick that did this same thing, she never grew. AT ALL she lived about 6 weeks and was getting her feathers in like all the others but remained the same size as when she hatched.