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    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Try seperating each hatch. Hatch a batch from one hen and your rooster, see what you get (partridge or crossbeak), then do another hen, then another. The cross beak and partridge don't have to neccessarily be from your roo, it could be one of the hens. But if they show up in more than one hatch...
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    Silkie thread!

    I used to, but I kept forgetting to mix it it's pretty easy though and they love it!
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    Silkie thread!

    Grey The charcoal colored greys will be blue, the darkest one may be black.
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    Silkie thread!

    That buff is strange =) would be interesting to see what it looks like when it gets older! The other one may be a grey or a self blue, or even a splash possibly.
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    Silkie thread!

    I have heard to give them higher protein food, like 21-22% multi flock or starter/grower and just supplement oyster shell. Because they are not daily layers.
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    Silkie thread!

    Definitely! Hopefully in the next few weeks I will have Nori sit on some.
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    Silkie thread!

    Yeah he's a gorgeous boy He has way more crest than a lot of other polish roo's I see. I don't know what the woman did but she did a good job! haha.
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    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Yup, lighting is a tricky sob
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    Silkie thread!

    Full sized, he's still growing. He's about 9 months now.
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    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    yeah try a better one, nori did something like this for a while, she had a respiratory fungal infection. Oxine and tylan helped.
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    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Sounds like a sneeze
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    Silkie thread!

    Try Sonoran silkies. https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/20590/sonoran-silkies
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    Silkie thread!

    uggh collecting these hatching eggs is harder than I thought! Nori likes to lay at the most inconvenient times and then hides the eggs, so sometimes like this morning I don't know if it was layed yesterday or early this morning Temps last night weren't too cold, but it was still low 30's. The...
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    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    looks a bit like Icelynn. If the head is darker without the flash she is just a light blue. I have a picture of Ice where the flash makes her look self blue Same bird
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    Silkie thread!

    Something secluded, I want some goats, chickens, sheep, and a horse. Possibly other things but for now that is my plan.
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