Silkie thread! - Page 1534

ok quick question....

I have an opportunity to buy some chicks from Blue Ridge Silkies. The have a LOT of cuckoo color variations. What have you guys heard about their silkies both regular cuckoo color and the many other cuckoo colors?  Are the other colors worth getting and making a project out of? here are the colors. Please tell me your ideas..  thnx

PC - Partridge Cuckoos
RC - Red Partridge Cuckoos
CC - Cuckoo X Cuckoo
SATAN - Cuckoo Roos X Black hens
POR - Porcelain Roos X Cuckoo hens
LC - Lavender Cuckoos
R&B - Red and Buff Cuckoos
XC - Cuckoo X Black Pullets
GRAY C - Gray Cuckoos

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Originally Posted by aurorarose25 

ok quick question....

 

I have an opportunity to buy some chicks from Blue Ridge Silkies. The have a LOT of cuckoo color variations. What have you guys heard about their silkies both regular cuckoo color and the many other cuckoo colors?  Are the other colors worth getting and making a project out of? here are the colors. Please tell me your ideas..  thnx

 

PC - Partridge Cuckoos
RC - Red Partridge Cuckoos
CC - Cuckoo X Cuckoo
SATAN - Cuckoo Roos X Black hens
POR - Porcelain Roos X Cuckoo hens
LC - Lavender Cuckoos
R&B - Red and Buff Cuckoos
XC - Cuckoo X Black Pullets
GRAY C - Gray Cuckoos

cuckoo X cuckoo and cuckoo X black is your typical cuckoo breedings and I have never heard of any of the others in the silkies...I would be skeptical to buy these mixed color project birds - but that is just me. 

I have a question. If you buy chicks from someone who is going to hatch them for you, what is a reasonable time to expect to wait?

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Originally Posted by mama2my4 

I have a question. If you buy chicks from someone who is going to hatch them for you, what is a reasonable time to expect to wait?

I'm slightly confused...

You pre-bought? OR you are on a 'waiting list' for chicks when/as they hatch? 

Never pay up front for chicks that haven't hatched yet unless your buying the eggs to hatch yourself. 

If you are on a waiting list for chicks that haven't hatched yet, you don't know how their hatch is going to turn out (even the best incubators and experienced incubating peeps have troubles and bad hatches) and you don't know how many people are ahead of you waiting for chicks...So ask how long they expect and just ask them to contact you when they expect them to hatch - and just wait - up to you if you want to go ahead and buy somewhere else and still get those chicks OR decline if they took too long. 

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Originally Posted by ScaredOfShadows 

I'm slightly confused...

 

You pre-bought? OR you are on a 'waiting list' for chicks when/as they hatch? 

 

Never pay up front for chicks that haven't hatched yet unless your buying the eggs to hatch yourself. 

If you are on a waiting list for chicks that haven't hatched yet, you don't know how their hatch is going to turn out (even the best incubators and experienced incubating peeps have troubles and bad hatches) and you don't know how many people are ahead of you waiting for chicks...So ask how long they expect and just ask them to contact you when they expect them to hatch - and just wait - up to you if you want to go ahead and buy somewhere else and still get those chicks OR decline if they took too long. 

I pre-bought. From a well praised BYC'r, so I thought it was all good. And I have been put off and put off. I was told mid-March, now mid-April. I paid for my chicks on 2/10 and I keep hearing "next week". I am so upset. And I am not trying to start any trouble, I just want my chicks, and I didn't know if this is the norm.  

Yep, lesson learned. I won't do it again. 

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye95 

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!  YAY!!!!  how the heck did you get a SG??!?!  Did you get shipped eggs?  One must have slipped in there!  So funny!!

 

 What's an SG?

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Originally Posted by Tikkijane 

 

 What's an SG?

Show Girl - They are silkies without feathers on their neck except some have a "bowtie".
 

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye95 

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!  YAY!!!!  how the heck did you get a SG??!?!  Did you get shipped eggs?  One must have slipped in there!  So funny!!

 

yes they were from shipped eggs, was not expecting an SG in this batch. I have 18 Silkie/SG eggs in the bator due Easter and 7 due a week later (just put in yesterday) SOOOOOO hoping for more! I can not believe I find it SOOOOO cute!!!! I can't believe they've grown on me

HI

I posted the other day to determine the color if this is actually splash on my sweet 7 month old roo. I say splash, but I see there are lighter splashes and darker ones. Is there a more desireable color for splash? He has a black and a white girlfriend. He really likes the little white one. Need to clip her feathers and see if we can get some babies going!

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Originally Posted by Sonoran Silkies 

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Originally Posted by peepblessed 

 

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Originally Posted by Grumpypantsmomma 

Here are my remaining 4 silkie chicks, I had 2 splash but 1 passed.

This is the little splash chick that had bad curled toes, I did what was recommended by many BYCers but it only seem to help the big toe straighten out, the little toe is the only real bad one, The little splash is smart it has gotten all of the braces and tapings off. it is now 2 weeks and i am afraid their is nothing i can do for it unless I break the toe ( I WOULD NEVER HURT MY ANIMAL INTENTIONALLY AND THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I WOULD DO EVEN WITH THE INTENTION TO SHOW). I was really hoping to breed it when it comes of age.

Just curious the other splash that passed away both feet were curled under pretty bad. since both had curled toe do you think it was genetic or an incubator problem, 2 out of 5 chicks hatched at the same time?

 I have had three hatches from three different breeders and every batch had  one with curled toes.  They were weak and the first two I taped died. I just had this one and I taped it using twist ties because I didn't have pipe cleaners. The twist ties worked great as they were flat and the tape stayed on well. The chick didn't do too well on the incubator wire but when I moved it to the towel it walked as well as the others. In two days it was very strong. I removed the braces after five days and the toes were perfect. I don't believe it was the incubation because my incubator is rock solid. My last ones could have been the incubator. No one I have heard of thinks it's genetic. I always wonder if it is just how they grow in the egg. I have heard of vitamin B deficiency problems, but I seriously doubt that from the breeders I was dealing with. I now have an incubator full of my own eggs, so it will be interesting to see if I get curled toes. Shipping has got to be hard on those tiny embryos.

 

 

 

 

Sonoran Silkies -  I believe what you're referring to was said by peepblessed, not Grumpypantsmomma.