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A silkie chick just hatched. I know who both parents are. Mom is my broody hen Misty (black silkie) and dad is Fluffy (black silkie roo with slight silver leakage in his neck). Chick is blonde with a couple darker orange spots on the bottom of its neck (at least I thought so. The chick is still wet.) I can tell the skin is black so it's definitely a silkie. My theory is that my roo might have some white silkies in him. And the silver leakage of course. If I'm not mistaken the lady I got my roo from said she had like 2 white silkie hens along with black silkies. I also think she has cuckoos but I think they live separately.
At first I thought the chick that hatched was my 2nd bantam brahma × silkie mix (I already hatched one last week) but then I noticed the brahma egg had only pipped (dark spotty egg). So is this possible that the parents might have some lighter colored silkies in their family tree? This is so weird becouse the other chick that hatched from my roo and one of 3 black hens is solid black.
Also the same blonde chick has super thick legs and the comb already looks kinda raised despite I being only a few hours old. Could that mean rooster? I swear the feet were nearly 1cm thick in the place where all front toes meet.
Mom:
Dad:
Chick:
I'll post more pictures tomorrow probably when it's dry. I won't open the incubator again today so thats my only picture. I wouldn't want to kill the pipped ones. The 3 light eggs in there are also from the same roo and one of my 3 black hens and I have 1 egg from the same roo and a different hen named Luna.
I know that this chick is from Misty's egg becouse when I was collecting eggs I wrote Misty's name on it because I saw her lay the egg.
Could this chick actually be from the parents or did I somehow confuse it for a bantam brahma egg? That is very unlikely becouse my brahma lays different eggs from my silkies and the egg even had Misty's name on it.
A silkie chick just hatched. I know who both parents are. Mom is my broody hen Misty (black silkie) and dad is Fluffy (black silkie roo with slight silver leakage in his neck). Chick is blonde with a couple darker orange spots on the bottom of its neck (at least I thought so. The chick is still wet.) I can tell the skin is black so it's definitely a silkie. My theory is that my roo might have some white silkies in him. And the silver leakage of course. If I'm not mistaken the lady I got my roo from said she had like 2 white silkie hens along with black silkies. I also think she has cuckoos but I think they live separately.
At first I thought the chick that hatched was my 2nd bantam brahma × silkie mix (I already hatched one last week) but then I noticed the brahma egg had only pipped (dark spotty egg). So is this possible that the parents might have some lighter colored silkies in their family tree? This is so weird becouse the other chick that hatched from my roo and one of 3 black hens is solid black.
Also the same blonde chick has super thick legs and the comb already looks kinda raised despite I being only a few hours old. Could that mean rooster? I swear the feet were nearly 1cm thick in the place where all front toes meet.
Mom:
Dad:
Chick:
I'll post more pictures tomorrow probably when it's dry. I won't open the incubator again today so thats my only picture. I wouldn't want to kill the pipped ones. The 3 light eggs in there are also from the same roo and one of my 3 black hens and I have 1 egg from the same roo and a different hen named Luna.
I know that this chick is from Misty's egg becouse when I was collecting eggs I wrote Misty's name on it because I saw her lay the egg.
Could this chick actually be from the parents or did I somehow confuse it for a bantam brahma egg? That is very unlikely becouse my brahma lays different eggs from my silkies and the egg even had Misty's name on it.
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