Silkie thread! - Page 1535

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Originally Posted by kristip 

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!

 

 

 

Very pretty splash! I like the black and white girlfriend too!
 

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Originally Posted by ScaredOfShadows 

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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. 

 

Same here.  If you want good advise on cuckoo silkies, talk to Steve Wheat.  I think he hs been working on htem longer than just about anyone else, and I would trust his advice over that of some others.  

Are you talking about getting birds/eggs shipped to you, or the ones that were/are soon to be hatched here locally from shipped eggs?  If the later, did you see the photos?  Very colourful birds, but very, very red combs.  There was one pullet who looked pretty nice, though.  I had a crele-like rooster awhile back.  pretty colouring, but way too red.  He went to a pet home.
 

Wow, that's super frustrating!  It's true you're on the outer edge of what's recommended for viable eggs, but it's not impossible.  We've hatched eggs with reasonable success that were stored in variable conditions (think, a sometimes warm and sometimes freezing barn) when we thought our girl wanted to go broody but she didn't.  I think the oldest eggs were three weeks out when set, and our hatch was about 75%.  So, I would definitely pop them in the bator after letting them sit for a long rest from all that shipping.  Good luck!

 

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Originally Posted by ChickenLeg 

Okay my hatching eggs were gathered early this week, shipped out wednesday, Post Office shipped them from Florida to Wisconsin, and I live in -.- Tennessee..

So they should be here by tomorrow, what's the likely-hood they will still be able to hatch?

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Originally Posted by mama2my4 

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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. 

 

 

 

Send a polite message asking for either chicks by a certain date or your money back.  If you want, you can simply say it has been so long that you would like your money refunded.  Be polite and businesslike; no sense in burning bridges.  Could be the hens have stopped laying, the incubator is not working, chicks are not developing/hatching, other unrelated issues.  I agree that paying for chicks before they hatch is not a good move unless they are eggs you are supplying for them to hatch, and then the timeframe should be in a bit over 3 weeks from when you supplied the eggs.
 

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Originally Posted by Sonoran Silkies 

Same here.  If you want good advise on cuckoo silkies, talk to Steve Wheat.  I think he hs been working on htem longer than just about anyone else, and I would trust his advice over that of some others.  

 

Are you talking about getting birds/eggs shipped to you, or the ones that were/are soon to be hatched here locally from shipped eggs?  If the later, did you see the photos?  Very colourful birds, but very, very red combs.  There was one pullet who looked pretty nice, though.  I had a crele-like rooster awhile back.  pretty colouring, but way too red.  He went to a pet home.
 

 

It would be the later. I did see the pics, but what about the just plain cuckoo ones?

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Originally Posted by aurorarose25 

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Originally Posted by Sonoran Silkies 

Same here.  If you want good advise on cuckoo silkies, talk to Steve Wheat.  I think he hs been working on htem longer than just about anyone else, and I would trust his advice over that of some others.  

 

Are you talking about getting birds/eggs shipped to you, or the ones that were/are soon to be hatched here locally from shipped eggs?  If the later, did you see the photos?  Very colourful birds, but very, very red combs.  There was one pullet who looked pretty nice, though.  I had a crele-like rooster awhile back.  pretty colouring, but way too red.  He went to a pet home.
 

 

It would be the later. I did see the pics, but what about the just plain cuckoo ones?

Well, I am not sure how well you would be able to differentiate from the down.  Might want to email the breeder and ask for photos showing the different down colourings, or contact the guy doing the hatching and tell him you want the CC, SATAN and/or XC birds--you'll have to find out if he can/will keep those chicks separated as they hatch.  I assume SATAN is the name of the rooster 

Help!  I'm hatching an assortment of silkie chicks from a BYC breeder and trying to keep them straight color-wise as they hatch.  One hatching bator I've set up with partitions so one corner has whites, one lavs, one buff, and one porcelain.  But, in the other hatching bator I just laid the eggs out as I usually do cause it's just paint and partridge and I didn't think there was any way I could mix those up.  OOPS!

Here is a pic of one chick (in the far corner) that is black but hatched from a paint egg--no surprise there.  The chick front and center hatched from a partridge egg but is not at all what I was expecting partridge to look like!  Is it just that he's still wet?  Do you think the eggs were mixed up when they were marked?  She said her kids marked them at collection.  He is silvery dark all over, even his tummy, with no sign of striping.  His egg was marked with a 'p' and should have been partridge...idk.  Any thoughts?

If they're all going to be this close in color (or if that's even a chance) I could quick slip a divider in there keeping the rest the paint and partridge eggs seperate.  I just hate to do it cause I've got another five or so that are piped and one that's thinking about unzipping.  Suggestions, please?   These are my first partridge, even as adults, so maybe I got this setup all wrong!?!

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Originally Posted by Sonoran Silkies 

Send a polite message asking for either chicks by a certain date or your money back.  If you want, you can simply say it has been so long that you would like your money refunded.  Be polite and businesslike; no sense in burning bridges.  Could be the hens have stopped laying, the incubator is not working, chicks are not developing/hatching, other unrelated issues.  I agree that paying for chicks before they hatch is not a good move unless they are eggs you are supplying for them to hatch, and then the timeframe should be in a bit over 3 weeks from when you supplied the eggs.
 

 

thanks for the advice. I don't know if  I am just being impatient, or if this is the norm. They were supposed to be for my daughter for her birthday... 

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Originally Posted by Country Chickens 

Help!  I'm hatching an assortment of silkie chicks from a BYC breeder and trying to keep them straight color-wise as they hatch.  One hatching bator I've set up with partitions so one corner has whites, one lavs, one buff, and one porcelain.  But, in the other hatching bator I just laid the eggs out as I usually do cause it's just paint and partridge and I didn't think there was any way I could mix those up.  OOPS!

 

Here is a pic of one chick (in the far corner) that is black but hatched from a paint egg--no surprise there.  The chick front and center hatched from a partridge egg but is not at all what I was expecting partridge to look like!  Is it just that he's still wet?  Do you think the eggs were mixed up when they were marked?  She said her kids marked them at collection.  He is silvery dark all over, even his tummy, with no sign of striping.  His egg was marked with a 'p' and should have been partridge...idk.  Any thoughts?

 

If they're all going to be this close in color (or if that's even a chance) I could quick slip a divider in there keeping the rest the paint and partridge eggs seperate.  I just hate to do it cause I've got another five or so that are piped and one that's thinking about unzipping.  Suggestions, please?   These are my first partridge, even as adults, so maybe I got this setup all wrong!?!

The partridge will likely dry a different color but who knows for sure! Looks like you have a light weight incubator. You can turn the shower on real hot in the bathroom and carry it in and open it in there if you want to be sure.

 

So, just take it somewhere humid and then I can pop the divider in?  That's a good idea.  This is all so nerve-wracking, it's like hatching for the first time! lol  Good thing it's also fun!!!