Hi all! I was wondering if someone could help me with these silkies colors. A lady was selling her flock so I got them all, and yes I realize they’re pet quality :)
The first hen is a gray color, the second hen is much lighter than the black hen I have, and the third hen is black with red /...
Hello all! I had to sell my flock (including the silkie in my profile pic) 8 years ago when I went away to college. I’m just now starting back up!
Yesterday I came home with a lady’s beardless silkie flock. I mostly want them for incubators for my other birds. I realize most of the birds are...
Hello from Starkville! I had to sell my flock 8 years ago when I moved to MS for college. Recently I was finally able to get a flock started again!
Does anyone sell silkies here in MS?
Hi everyone! I've been breeding Welsummers into my olive egger lines to add speckles to the olive eggs. It's worked well so far! I've been gone at college this past year(I'm actually majoring in Poultry Science), and my parents have been taking care of the flock, and they integrated everyone...
Wow my bad. I meant Welsummer rooster over my olive egger hens, the blue egg is from an Americana hen that was the mother of my F1 olive egger generation.
No I used my F1 Welsummer roosters over my F1 olive egger hens. I just have the blue eggs in the picture for aesthetics. If you breed F1 olive egger roosters over F1 olive egger hens it doesn't darken the egg pigment enough
The dark brown speckled are pure Welsummer, the blue eggs are from one of the mothers of my F1 olive eggers, and the darker olive eggs are my F2 generation of Welsummer rooster over Americana hens