Bless her, she looks as though she will be beautiful though. We've not been able to find anywhere local to us who have Silkies, so we had to venture a little further to a breeder.
That's my little Rex when she hatched, and the big Rooster is behind her who looks greyish!
Its amazing to watch them change isnt it? Our little white silkie was labelled as a white (as we just asked for mixed eggs) and this big ball of brown fluff hatched, I never thought she would be snow white! But she's so white now!
Hello all Silkie people,
I've only just joined this site so I apologise if I am posting in incorrect places, I'm still figuring my way around.
Would anyone be able to help identify my Roosters colour? We were under the impression that he was a Lavender?
Thank you very much, that's a beautiful colour of your Eng Orph.
I'm finding the Silkie colours very difficult to identify, we have a pure White Silkie and a Red, they are the only two I am sure of, ha ha.
Hi all,
Only just joined and already I cannot contain my chicken questions.
This is HoneyB, he was our first hatchling and egg was labelled 'Lavender' although to my very untrained silkie eyes, he seems to not be one? Any advice given is greatly appreciated. I've drained Google images but have...
Hello all,
My name is Tilly, and I'm from the Devonshire countryside in the UK. We are new to keeping chickens, we currently have 6 Silkie chickens (colours of which I am unsure of) but we've had them since they hatched and are very smitten with them.
We had such bad luck with our eggs which...