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    Buff Laced Silkie/Satin Project

    Okay so I've decided to go down a painful path and breed buff laced silkies and satins because I love the color. I had buff laced polishes a long time ago but they're so fragile. So to my current understanding, it is simply a gold laced with dominant white gene. And to my current understanding...
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    Are these silkies show quality or 4h quality

    My chicks hatched just a few days before! Can't really tell for sure on feather quality until they've fully feathered out. If the parents were good, the chicks will usually be good, but there's always those few that are disappointing. But when I hatch silkies out I check their toe spacing and...
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    genetics questions (prediction on how chicks would look)

    Not a genetic expert, but here's a calculator that might help, this one's for feather color mainly: https://kippenjungle.nl/chickencalculator.html If you look at the top near the right, there's a link that says "Chicken Quest version" that one is the same calculator but with more genes like...
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    Cuckoo silkie has a white feather patch on his head

    Your rooster is really pretty! My cockerel was a bit paler than the others as a chick and originally I thought he was going to be a blue cuckoo because he was so much paler. Not sure what they have in their pens but definitely some leaky birds. I know some of their males must not be double...
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    Cuckoo silkie has a white feather patch on his head

    I did some research on google and maybe he has the gene to make his crest white like some polish colors? A lot of the images I saw have the front of the crest a normal color but a patch towards the back white. Unclear whether it's dominant or recessive or incomplete since google doesn't really say.
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    Cuckoo silkie has a white feather patch on his head

    Not sure if it's some random leakage or a mess up in his pigments when he grew the feathers, but I was curious. I thought he just had a bald patch and some down was poking through, but it turns out he has a patch of white and partially white feathers in his crest. I got him and some others as...
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    Anyone know of any reputable show quality silkie breeders that ship birds?

    I never message a person on craigslist unless I'm sure the photos are real and not stolen and that their contact info is there and legit. I always pay with cash after I've seen the birds and have them put in a box for the ride home. Haven't had any issues with any people so far but that doesn't...
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    Anyone know of any reputable show quality silkie breeders that ship birds?

    I've heard of a few of those breeders on the list and the guy on facebook. I'll do some more research on them, thank you. If I have to I'll get hatching eggs but I'm unsure if I want to risk that currently since hatch rates are generally low. I'm also checking my local craigslist since it's...
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    Anyone know of any reputable show quality silkie breeders that ship birds?

    I'm looking for breeders with show quality silkies because I want to start my own show line at some point. I have some decent birds but I definitely need a better rooster or two to produce nicer chicks. Additionally because of some harder to breed colors that I'm fond of. They need to be able to...
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    Crooked Feet?

    Thought I should update with this since this hatch so far is really successful. Got a new incubator from Brinsea. My second batch of eggs had been started in a different incubator before I gave the chickens vitamins. So when the new incubator arrived I moved them to the new one. Anyway...
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    Crooked Feet?

    I can probably pick up some unmedicated chick starter later.
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    Crooked Feet?

    I heard the medicated chick feed blocked vitamin B or something similar if fed for too long which is why we swap them over eventually.
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    Crooked Feet?

    We feed them chick starter for a few weeks then swap them over to wet chicken feed until their beaks are big enough to eat it dry. We also have oyster shell available for the hens.
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    Crooked Feet?

    I moved all the silkie chicks into the brooder yesterday, they're all walking around fine. Keeping the remaining bantam chick in the incubator with food and water until it is a bit more confident with its hobble. I'll probably move the bantam chick into the brooder with the others tomorrow...
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    Crooked Feet?

    I have some gauze for people that's pretty similar I can use. I have thermometer things that show the humidity as well as temperature. The incubator I used for lockdown is a fairly large one so the temperature is not always consistent throughout the entire space of it, I placed the eggs in...
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