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  1. MumsyII

    Partridge Project

    They are stunning. Really typy looking chicks. I have paint x Fuzzbucket hatching now but none are strongly chipmunk marked. I'm not sure what to make of them. Your partridge hen is beautiful. I hope I get a female or two as pretty as her. When the eggs in the incubator finish, I'm done for...
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    Paint Project

    Fur N Feathers, that chick with the one loud spot is beautiful. Yes. Sometimes I get a chick that has the lack of feathered middle toe too. Your teenager paint with extreme foot feathering is amazing! Nice! Zoofee, your roo is gorgeous! Love him. I get an occasional chipmunk patterned chick...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    I had a thirty year old hot box that hadn't been used in decades. We dusted it off and my husband grounded it and I found a bucket full of old insulators and handles. Bought a roll of fencing wire and went at it. I string the wire four to six inches from the ground around all outside pens and...
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    Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

    One of my favorite parti chicks out of a paint x recessive white pen. I'm thinking male. Very uppity little guy. Doesn't take any guff from the big boys and will chase off hens that come too close into his personal space.
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    X 2 Having gone through a disaster by predation in late winter myself, vigilance is everything. Since the coyote attack, we have wired the outside of all pens. Last night around midnight a pack of coyotes woke me up yipping and howling right outside the bedroom window. I went outside at day...
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    Silkie thread!

    Dapper Dan the wonder paint with Fuzzbucket (partridge) and Shreek (lavender) hunting bugs on the wood pile. Hatched from Catdance eggs Feb. 2013. They gave me thirteen chicks this week and eighteen left in the incubator ready to hatch in the next few days. Four paint, five lavender, two...
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    Porcelain Project

    My youngest daughter Faye and her champion white silkie pullet 'Gorgeous". 1996
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    Porcelain Project

    Thank you. And now I must be totally honest. I never thought much about Dapper Dan from the day he hatched. He was all white with just a tiny black speck on top of his head. I had no other paints and didn't think about breeding him. In fact, I nearly culled him (chicken stock pot) numerous...
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    Silkie thread!

    I love all the beautious silkie pictures! Lovely!
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    Porcelain Project

    ...old and just started laying eggs a month ago. Her chicks are beautiful. Her type isn't great. Her crest is ok and her feet are ok. Her cushion is *meh* She is a bit of a nut. Her name is Shreek. She shreeks and sqawks all day long. Dapper Dan hanging out behind the barn in the shade with...
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    Porcelain Project

    Thank you. Each egg that hatches is such a surprise because a few months back, I didn't expect anything but more solid white chicks. Now my brooder house is filled with colorful chicks. BRIR = Bantam Rhode Island Red. I have three hens and no roo so I put Dapper Dan the paint with them and...
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    Silkie thread!

    Looks like light penciling in the wing feathers so I think partridge. I'm thinking it will be a very pretty bird when grown.
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    Silkie thread!

    Thank you. Truly. I've lived and farmed here for twenty five years. Because of nocturnal predators, They all go into their respective pens for the night. I keep grow out kids, adult silkies, and adult LF in their separate runs for three days and nights straight to train them. After that I...
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    Paint Project

    Chicks still hatching in a staggered fashion. The last couple dozen eggs under hens and in the incubator are from a Lavender, Partridge, and my best recessive white pullet. Most of the White's eggs have been blank. Dapper Dan just is not much interested in her. Today four chicks hatched. Two...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    I had a couple chicks like that years ago and I did the same thing. It looked awful but they were meat and egg birds not destined for the show bench. They were eating each other alive. Those were hatchery stock. Never bought them since. I have one bantam rir hen that is a notorious feather...
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    Silkie thread!

    I found this in a google search. It explains what's going on in the feather mutation better than I could. "The Frizzle gene (F) is incompletely dominant, with exhibition quality Frizzles usually with one dose only of the Frizzle gene (F/f+). But there is a frizzle modifying gene (mf) which is...
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    Silkie thread!

    If male and female both carry the smooth (barbed) feather gene, a smooth feathered chick would occur on occasion for sure. I think she looks like a silkie crossed with a White Sultan because of her mulberry comb and wattles. Her smooth feathers looks like she is a cross to my eyes. Phenotype if...
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    Silkie thread!

    They look like half silkie first generation to me. Bred back to a pure silkie will give silkie feathers and better crests and feet. I happen to love half breed silkie colors. They can be really surprising and often stunning but not standard colors. Pretty though. One of my half breed silkies has...
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    Silkie thread!

    Many of the top breeders of silkies will tell you that "show quality" means a bird was shown at a sanctioned event and placed. To be entered in a show does not necessarily mean a bird is "show quality". Neither does a bird bred from show quality pen. Chicks with DQ points can come from any...
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    Silkie thread!

    I really don't know what colors those are. They aren't silkies that I do know.
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