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post #21441 of 35102
7/4/12 at 3:55pm
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Originally Posted by Sweetpeeps View Post

Here are my silkies (9 weeks old today) from McMurrays. It was so hot again today, I had just given them some sweet corn from the fridge. Sorry it is mostly of silkie butts!Silkies peeps 9 weeks old.JPG

Super cute! D.gif So much fluff!!

I have 18 chickens, one kitten, 3 dogs, 2 hermit crabs, and live on 20 acres in the country. I am CrAzY about chickens and plan on getting more! I am continually working to better my chicken practices and to better my flocks. 

 

~"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."~Albert Einstein 

 

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I have 18 chickens, one kitten, 3 dogs, 2 hermit crabs, and live on 20 acres in the country. I am CrAzY about chickens and plan on getting more! I am continually working to better my chicken practices and to better my flocks. 

 

~"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."~Albert Einstein 

 

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post #21442 of 35102
7/4/12 at 3:56pm
I love chicken butts! Especially silkie butts!
Owner of 6 rabbits, 5 hens, an Anole, and a Frog My hens:Dipsy the Polish, Doodle the Orpington, Raven the Silkie, and Tulip and Opal, the Easter Egger bantam buddies~ Can't wait for my new birds this summer! 1 Porcelain D'uccle, 1 Golden Sebright, 1 Modern Game bantam, and 1 Bantam Turken.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” - Buddha
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Owner of 6 rabbits, 5 hens, an Anole, and a Frog My hens:Dipsy the Polish, Doodle the Orpington, Raven the Silkie, and Tulip and Opal, the Easter Egger bantam buddies~ Can't wait for my new birds this summer! 1 Porcelain D'uccle, 1 Golden Sebright, 1 Modern Game bantam, and 1 Bantam Turken.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” - Buddha
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post #21443 of 35102
7/4/12 at 4:21pm
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Originally Posted by shadow rabbit10 View Post

Does anyone know the sex of my 7 week old black? Thanks.

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 Your little cutie is too young to sex. It's definitely not black but not sure what color it is. Does it has red or brown in it or is that the flash?

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post #21444 of 35102
7/4/12 at 4:24pm
No. The lighting in the morning just makes things look red. I assure you he/she is all back except the left over greyish yellow chest fuzz, which is coming in black. The only weird thing is how he tips iffy some of her toes are pink. She IS from a hatchery though, so what am I gonna do?
Owner of 6 rabbits, 5 hens, an Anole, and a Frog My hens:Dipsy the Polish, Doodle the Orpington, Raven the Silkie, and Tulip and Opal, the Easter Egger bantam buddies~ Can't wait for my new birds this summer! 1 Porcelain D'uccle, 1 Golden Sebright, 1 Modern Game bantam, and 1 Bantam Turken.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” - Buddha
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Owner of 6 rabbits, 5 hens, an Anole, and a Frog My hens:Dipsy the Polish, Doodle the Orpington, Raven the Silkie, and Tulip and Opal, the Easter Egger bantam buddies~ Can't wait for my new birds this summer! 1 Porcelain D'uccle, 1 Golden Sebright, 1 Modern Game bantam, and 1 Bantam Turken.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” - Buddha
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post #21445 of 35102
7/4/12 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by Sweetpeeps View Post

Here are my silkies (9 weeks old today) from McMurrays. It was so hot again today, I had just given them some sweet corn from the fridge. Sorry it is mostly of silkie butts!Silkies peeps 9 weeks old.JPG

 Really cute photo!! I love the mix of colors!!

Twin Oaks Ranch Silkies  frow.gif   I can't believe those little Silkies grabbed my heart! love.gif jumpy.gif
I have a wonderful DH who's a silkie enabler! love.gif
  Member of American Silkie Bantam Club!

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Twin Oaks Ranch Silkies  frow.gif   I can't believe those little Silkies grabbed my heart! love.gif jumpy.gif
I have a wonderful DH who's a silkie enabler! love.gif
  Member of American Silkie Bantam Club!

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post #21446 of 35102
7/4/12 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by bluewhoo View Post

silkie1.jpghello to the silkie expert... ok here is the pic asked for in the previouse crisis. so boy or girls n why so ugly???? help please...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry the photo is too small to sex. I don't think the are ugly. Looks like they have nice tight wings. Hatchery silkies often lack the extra fluff.

Twin Oaks Ranch Silkies  frow.gif   I can't believe those little Silkies grabbed my heart! love.gif jumpy.gif
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Twin Oaks Ranch Silkies  frow.gif   I can't believe those little Silkies grabbed my heart! love.gif jumpy.gif
I have a wonderful DH who's a silkie enabler! love.gif
  Member of American Silkie Bantam Club!

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post #21447 of 35102
7/4/12 at 4:42pm
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Originally Posted by shadow rabbit10 View Post

No. The lighting in the morning just makes things look red. I assure you he/she is all back except the left over greyish yellow chest fuzz, which is coming in black. The only weird thing is how he tips iffy some of her toes are pink. She IS from a hatchery though, so what am I gonna do?

 Pink toes usually turn black in time.

Twin Oaks Ranch Silkies  frow.gif   I can't believe those little Silkies grabbed my heart! love.gif jumpy.gif
I have a wonderful DH who's a silkie enabler! love.gif
  Member of American Silkie Bantam Club!

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Twin Oaks Ranch Silkies  frow.gif   I can't believe those little Silkies grabbed my heart! love.gif jumpy.gif
I have a wonderful DH who's a silkie enabler! love.gif
  Member of American Silkie Bantam Club!

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post #21448 of 35102
7/4/12 at 4:45pm
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Originally Posted by bengalsmama View Post

These are our new Silkies (the other 2 we had got killed by a bird dog so now we have them in their own pen & no longer running the back yard)  We bought these from a traders market and it was supposed to be 2 hens and a rooster....turned out to be 2 roosters and a hen!  LOL  Two of them are bearded.  They are about 8 months old or so now, so my question is this:  when will she start laying eggs?  I have not noticed her laying eggs yet.  Also, can the Silkie rooster breed with a Cornish hen or regular sized chickens?  Our Silkie roosters are the only roosters we have, so I need to know if I should separate them from the hens if we do not want babies.  They are a bit bigger now than they were in this photo, I will try to get a good picture of them later!

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If you dont want babies then dont let them incubate.  If you just want the other hens for eggs, the roosters wont hurt anything in the edible egg department.  I eat fertile eggs every day.  The development of the embryo starts when they are sat on or incubated.  If you collect eggs every day, and put them in the fridge then you can have roosters with no chicks and great eggs.

 

 
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post #21449 of 35102
7/4/12 at 4:48pm
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No. The lighting in the morning just makes things look red. I assure you he/she is all back except the left over greyish yellow chest fuzz, which is coming in black. The only weird thing is how he tips iffy some of her toes are pink. She IS from a hatchery though, so what am I gonna do?

My blacks were born black.  They never had any greyish yellow chest fuzz.  

 

 
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post #21450 of 35102
7/4/12 at 4:57pm
Neither did mine. I wonder if it's the skin... Let me go look.
Owner of 6 rabbits, 5 hens, an Anole, and a Frog My hens:Dipsy the Polish, Doodle the Orpington, Raven the Silkie, and Tulip and Opal, the Easter Egger bantam buddies~ Can't wait for my new birds this summer! 1 Porcelain D'uccle, 1 Golden Sebright, 1 Modern Game bantam, and 1 Bantam Turken.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” - Buddha
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Owner of 6 rabbits, 5 hens, an Anole, and a Frog My hens:Dipsy the Polish, Doodle the Orpington, Raven the Silkie, and Tulip and Opal, the Easter Egger bantam buddies~ Can't wait for my new birds this summer! 1 Porcelain D'uccle, 1 Golden Sebright, 1 Modern Game bantam, and 1 Bantam Turken.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” - Buddha
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