I've tried to purchase some from her, but our weather didn't lineup over a 2 year period. 😢 Do you sell any? I'd love some from her lines- but would have to find someone closer to us.
Oh that is fascinating- thank you!!! At this point, I'm still undecided. Waiting to see what everyone turns out as (M/F). I love splash and paint. But I have a couple of blacks that I am pretty sure are female and they're awfully cute! So it's hard to say.
I may just keep and try and hatch a...
Thank you! Would you have any advice on how to do that? I'm just starting with the silkies and At this point know nothing of genetics. Super excited to learn though!
Thank you! Is it accurate that some blacks are actually a dark blue? I'd have to look into it a little more- but I felt like I saw something talking about blacks vs dark blue and how they're often mistaken.
Thanks! I definitely don't believe that any are show quality. (As I got the smaller ones as an egg for raw milk trade from a customer and they'd have comes from a mixed flock. The older ones are from TSC and Bomgaar's.)
I'm hoping to breed these ones so that I can get the money to invest in...
Can you guys help me with these colors? It's the ones in the back: I have several of the grey colored ones that have the darker grey that I bought at a feed store. Then I have a couple that are white with the black/dark grey spots. (My uneducated guess is Splash (grey) and paint (white))
Then...
Hey! just wondering if someone can help me with these colors. The older ones are ones I purchased at a feed store. The mid sized ones are ones I bought at TSC. The littles are ones we hatched from a mixed pen (hatching eggs as a trade for milk). I know the littles very well may change as they grow.
And yes, SUPER lucky! Our feed store had them in April. So, it was my early Mother's Day gift. Then I got ent to TSC the other day and they had 6 in there. Manager sold them to me for $1 each! And my milk customer has traded me silkie hatching eggs twice for milk. 😍
And here (below) are out...