I am picking up these silkie girls this week, I am aware that they arent the best quality and I'm not too sure what their color would be classified as. I am wondering with rooster would give me the better pairing in your opinions. My black and silver rooster is a very nice quality, my white...
There are days when she can get up and walk perfectly fine around her pen, this is what confuses me. The majority of the time the legs are stuck behind her, and it's like whenever I'm considering culling she seems to jump right back up and I'll see her walking around the cage.
I have a now indoor quail that can't control its legs. She went from being perfectly fine outside one moment and within a few hours she was on her side with her legs stretched out behind her. This happened in early February and she has been inside ever since and it's now April. She can make her...
Some more updates. No crowing but pinky seems to be nesting, and brain is still chirping like a chick. Pinky is about 21 weeks and brain is about 14 weeks old.
I'm looking for some explanation and help on genetics for breeding. I have a frizzled silkie rooster and several pure silkie hens. I'm wondering what the results would be if I'm breeding them together. Would I end up with frizzled silkies, silkies, frizzles? I had a couple I've hatched though...
I've got 2 silkie chicks one is 14 weeks (Pinky) one is 7 weeks old (Brain)
I'm wondering when you guys usually start to see comb and streamer growth in your roosters to help me determine if I have boys or girls. Pinky has no comb growth along its beak it is completely smooth. While Brain is...
So I incubated 14 coturnix quail eggs and 7 silkie eggs. The quail hatched wonderfully with 12 chicks, but the silkies was a poor rate with one 1 silkie hatching. They are 2 weeks old now and get along great, the quail are nearly the size of the silkie chick and there have been no issues. But I...
I cant see any rust coloring in the feathers. I know the breeder had his birds in separate breeding pens and he had several different breeds. Barred rock, pencil rock, buff orpington, white leghorn and easter Eggers where the breeds he had, I was given a mixture of eggs with the breeds written...
Ok I'll post an update in a week or so. It hatched from a pale colored egg if that helps with determining the breed, the breeder sold the eggs to me as barred rock that's all I know, and it was the only one to hatch so I dont have any to compare it to
She is putting some weight on the sore leg now. It looks like the leg goes out to the side a bit when shes laying down.but I'm not sure if she is just holding it out that way to avoid putting weight on it. There was alot of chirping from her last night but shes quieter now. She stays under the...
I have a week old silkie chick. I just went upstairs to check on them to discover the rack I had across the brooder box had fallen inside the box and had pinned down a chick. It's not very heavy and did not fall from very far( it was across the top of the diaper box I used as a brooder) it's...