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I got ya, as incubators, those are fine, just wanted to be sure you knew that was it for them though, LOL

Quote: personally, I have gotten just about all thier rarer silkies colors at one time or another to do some color breeding in mine. GET THEM SOME WHERE ELSE! I cant stress that enough, they have other decent hatchery birds, but their silkies stink, 4 toed single comb hard feathered birds are...

yep, also watch for long pointed saddle and convert feathers as well as ones on the hackle, but yep, the bigger crested birds are almost always the cockerels, you should also be starting to see the "devil horn" V crest coming in soon

big flowing crest = male smaller tighter crest= female

Quote: you got very lucky then, I have ordered over 100 over a 2-3 year stretch, never got a single one bearded! and yes chickens and most all birds molt twice a year, most of ours are in the process right now actually so it shouldnt be long for yours either

oh Lord no. I tossed those off to an old neighbor buddy of mine who just like to have anything running around. I only keep breeder stuff. Was planning on using those to work with the color, but they were too far off silkies to even try. They had little to no foot feathering, pink and black...

Quote: I got some of them several years back when I was keeping d'uccles, they werent too bad actually, to the about lavender silkie post, got some of those last season, they grew up to look like buzzards, very ugly and barely able to class them as silkies?? They need to do some more work on...

Quote: I have bought all those colors from Ideal just for color projects, and all looked like buzzards when they grew up, very , very poor quality, little to no foot feathering, just a few shoots of hair for a crest, lots of hard feathers in tail and wings, I just gave them all away, (the few...

They are a great HATCHERY, but I did waste a lot of money this year on their silkies, never again! They were horrid looking little monsters (and I love silkies, but these looked like little buzzards, LOL), looked just like the lavender ones pictured earlier. I had about 6 colors from them...