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Hi, I recently put two fertile eggs under a broody hen, the mother is a splash silkie. I thought it would be fun to see what colors and genetics I get, seeing as I have 4 coquerals, all mixed, 2 silkies: a blue and a ginger/blue mix and 2 polish x silkie crosses: one looks more like a silkie...

Hello! These are my two newest silkies named Toffi and Fee :p I got them this weekend, they are 3 months old. I know they are too young to be sexed for sure, I have lots of silkies too know that. Although I had a lot of 5 back in summer and guessed their genders from day 1! 4 guesses of 5 are...

Hello all, I need help and advice urgently please! I have a 13 week old chick who isn't very well. He is a silkie polish cross, not a heavy bird for sure. I noticed on Wednesday he seemed unlike himself, he's usually a perky sweet little guy. But he seemed to be getting pecked at more than...

Hellooo :) I thought it would be helpful (and fun?) to see the weekly growth / age progression of my chicks! I guess it could also help with sexing...This is going to be from day 1 to week 8 for five babies (2 silkies, 3 polish / silkie crosses) I also have 'weekly' photos of another silkie and...

Hello!! Three weeks back I bought 6 silkie eggs. We candled day 7 and day 14, they were very dark, I could barely see one vein but left them all under my hen. (Which was strange as my first batch were so so so easy to see through, but they were extremely unhealthy!!) There was also a bullet...

So after my first time getting fertile eggs, we only got 1 chick, sadly, but we decided to get 2 others to go with the little guy. One of the chicks has been sexed as female, so I named her Hope! I have 2 little silkie fuzzballs yet to be named. A blue and silver partridge (which appears to be...

Hello!!:frow I haven't posted in over a year, oops! Last time was about my silkie rooster, who still has no interest in mating and probably never will... :barnie:old So now on to my story, we decided this year to buy fertilized silkie eggs to put under our broodies. We got 6, on day 14 I...

Hello everybody, I need help sexing my nearly 1 year old silkie. I got 'him' April last year, he was sexed to be a female but I'm still confused as to what gender he is. We also got 4 other silkies around the same time and they're all females and have been laying for months. But I'm not sure...