Silkie thread! - Page 1951

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Originally Posted by scamperwillow 

They won't let me into the buy/sell/trade area and they won't let me post pictures - keep getting this you don't have permission message.  What's up with that??

try it again , you must have 10 post before it will allow you to do most things here

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Originally Posted by TheChicknGarden 

Eek my house is filled with little peeping got my big girl 2 show girls for her bday! They are super cute!!

Picture please

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Originally Posted by Momagain1 

Sigh..my Puffle...the "male" silkie...right???

 

is he/she going to get any bigger??? he's really small..how big do silkies get anyhow??

 

no red on the comb at ALL...about 4 monbths

 

 

He might be a she. He/she wont much bigger. They just seem to fill out. Where did you get puffle?

Wish there were more local  Arizona silkie owners to trade with. I want more silkies

And if you are in AZ and own Silkies stop in to ARIZONA SILKIES http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/666714/arizona-silkies/50#post_9059294

Im hoping my chicks hatch tomorrow. I dont want to have to wait till thrusday to see them hatch. 6 silkies under a broody mama.  I also have a hatch of EE's due thursday also, then a hatch of 7 silkies due next week and a hatch of 4 the week after and depending on how the first time broodies are i might set more eggs under another broody, or she might be getting someone elses hatched chicks lol since she is a pro. And just when i got down to one silkie roo to sell and the 2 mix roos. 

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Originally Posted by lil mama 

He might be a she. He/she wont much bigger. They just seem to fill out. Where did you get puffle?

To me it looks like a rooster. The comb looks almost too big for a hen at this age. And someone was talking about the curvature of the beak a few pages back. Wouldn't that apply for this one's beak, looks like a rooster?

Now, I am not a Silkie expert so I could be wrong! lol

If he's a rooster, he'll get bigger. Even it it's a hen, it'll probably get a little bit bigger, at least fill out like lil mama said. :)

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Originally Posted by Debbi 

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Originally Posted by BarnGoddess01 

 

Sigrid van Dort suggests that leakage of the red pigment is quite common in white (dominant and recessive) Silkies. Sometimes the colour knock out feature of the white just isn't strong enough to knock out all the red. She describes it as a "buffish" colour. She says the feathers can appear randomly all over the body or be limited to the breast in hens and wing bow in roosters.

Barb,  There is no red hue to it at all, not even Buffish, it is golden/yellowy. Only in the hackles on both the hen and roo.  I tired to get some pics today, but the sun was not in my favor, nor were the birds with the now 10, little ones running around!

As you know, Debbi, I only have 1 white Silkie so I obviously don't have scads of experience. I'm only going by what I've read. Sounds like yours may not be leakage. This might be a dumb question, but have you tried bathing the birds in question with a whitening (bluing) shampoo? Any chance the yellow can be washed out? I know old white hair gets a yellowish tinge that can be blued away .....

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Originally Posted by Sanna 

To me it looks like a rooster. The comb looks almost too big for a hen at this age. And someone was talking about the curvature of the beak a few pages back. Wouldn't that apply for this one's beak, looks like a rooster?

Now, I am not a Silkie expert so I could be wrong! lol

If he's a rooster, he'll get bigger. Even it it's a hen, it'll probably get a little bit bigger, at least fill out like lil mama said. :)

That is exactely what I intended with the curvature of the male beak.

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Originally Posted by BarnGoddess01 

 

As you know, Debbi, I only have 1 white Silkie so I obviously don't have scads of experience. I'm only going by what I've read. Sounds like yours may not be leakage. This might be a dumb question, but have you tried bathing the birds in question with a whitening (bluing) shampoo? Any chance the yellow can be washed out? I know old white hair gets a yellowish tinge that can be blued away .....

I hope we get a photo but I am about sure this light yellowish shine on a complete white Silkie (which is most probably a recessive white c/c) is caused by carotene in the food or by sunlight.

This shine go away with the next molting but will come back when you keep giving food containing carotene or exposure of the bird to sunlight.

What Sigrid write about yellowish shine is on the pluff of young chicks (s+ (gold) = yellowish pluff and S (Silver) = grayish pluff).

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Originally Posted by littlecritters 


Sherbert is absolutely stunning. Please let us know when he starts
producing offspring. I'd like to be the first in line to buy chicks or eggs! ;)Tina

lol Theres already a big line for his offspring/eggs. He has JUST started to act like a mature boy, started seeing him grabbing the girls and he's starting to attempt to crow, took him long enough he's atleast 8 months old now.