Miniature silkie chick

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BeautifulBlue

BeautifulBlue

Songster
11 Years
Apr 17, 2008
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Just the one, this is Izzy.
Hatched a couple of weeks ago.

Cute little feathers and tail stump lol
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what a doll! and i thought mine was small!


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I have a tiny one as well. I need to get a photo. She is about half the size of the other silkies and can run under the legs of the EE's & Orpingtons. She holds her own with the big guys. She is actually quite fast, I have a hard time catching her. Mine are 2 1/2 weeks old. Do you think she will catch up or stay on the smaller side?
 
I have a black silkie 6 months...My new hatch is almost the same size as her they are 3 months..She or he is very small cant tell...
But that little black silkie is my meanist bird it beats the heak out of all my other birds 3 times its size..
Funny watchin it running after a Maran and orp...
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Might be a Dwarf Silkie. I have one also. She is 8 months old, almost 9 months, and she is about the size of a 3 month old silkie. Very tiny. Ive heard they dont live long.


I might have to get some pictures of her and post them.
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Hey, I've got one of those too! We were so worried that our little silkie hen would get picked on by the standard girls, until we saw her defend her full-grown australorp "sister". She became ninja-silkie. She jumped on the back of my EE/BO and started pecking her on the head. Then she chased her out of the coop and around the run. All the big chickens have a healthy dose of respect for her and we don't worry about her anymore.

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I have two miniatures now, including the one above.
This is Little Charlie and Big Sam, both hatched same day, same batch of eggs
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And with my quail, Tigger for comparison (Click for Bigger)
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Funny how they came from the same hatch and their's such a difference!! They are cute.. How can you tell roos from pullets I think mine are all girls...
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I couldn't tell for sure until they were 6months, but I had my idea. Sam always stood up tall as a chick, and had huge "streamers", Charlie was harder to sex, but is also a boy, after a lot of umming and ahhing!

Plus...the best give-away was when Sam started making this strange noise...
 

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