Silkie June/July Hatch-Along!

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Another Silkie egg marked P hatched!

Up till now there has been 3 hatch (one egg marked H and two eggs marked P)

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Well well well...

Another Silkie egg marked P has hatched!

We're now up to 4 chicks

 

[livenlaughnlove101]

How exciting! I have to admit, I'm pretty jealous. Four more days until mine hatch!

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

How exciting! I have to admit, I'm pretty jealous. Four more days until mine hatch!

Aw no! I understand how hard the wait is...very hard

Hatchday will be here soon for you!

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

When I woke up this morning there was 6 chicks hatched and the remaining 2 are starting to unzip the egg!

 

[livenlaughnlove101]

Congratulations!

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Congratulations!

Thankyou!

All 8 have hatched! Will post photos later on

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Here they are!

I'm honestly so pleased with these little chicks, more hatched than I expected and they are so adorable.

I didn't know what to expect. It's my first time hatching my own chicks from my own Silkies.

I was a little worried about what my Cockerel would produce. There was no way I'd ever know 100% what genes he was hiding or if he'd even be successful in fertilising eggs.

The only thing I knew which was my main worry that there was a possibility he was hiding the 4 toes gene.

He fathered 6 of these chicks and only one hatched with 4 toes, the rest has 5. I'd only really worry if all his young hatched with 4 toes.

Unfortunately that chicks future won't be for showing or breeding purposes but it will definitely get a good home as a pet for someone.

My current Cockerel will be staying as my breeding male. Despite the 4 toes gene, he has produced some beautiful poofy chicks.

He also managed to produce some bearded chicks! I never knew two non bearded Silkies could produce bearded chicks

So, here they are!

Booted Bantam x D'Anvers:
(Unsure on the colour at the moment)

Partridge Silkie:
(Not from my Cockerel. Was bred from 2 brown partridge Silkies but the chick looks more silver partridge with flecks of brown?)

White Silkie 1:
(First chick to hatch, has nices toe feathering so far)

White Silkie 2:
(I adore this one...)

White Silkie 3:

White Silkie 4:
(Possibly another keeper...)

White Silkie 5:
(The 4 toed chick, was the last one to hatch, still slightly damp on photo)

White x Gold Silkie:
(Seems to be white with gold back streaks and a blue chest?)

I still have PomPom sitting on 5 Silkie eggs and I've just put my other broody Silkie Audrey onto 4 Silkie eggs!

 

[livenlaughnlove101]

This morning I woke up to a great surprise! One of the chicks was hatching and a couple others had pips!

Now we have a little polish chick!

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

This morning I woke up to a great surprise! One of the chicks was hatching and a couple others had pips!

Now we have a little polish chick!

Aw awesome!

You'll have to post pictures!