Silkie
Partridge; & variances within the variety Created by canyoncritters
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This color is fun, as it has variances from light, red, medium, to dark. When hatching this color you should get one of these variances within the partridge variety...
Silkie
Splash with white base Created by canyoncritters
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This color is amazing since you can hatch either a blue base, lavendar base or white base (pictured), the white base is my favorite, as it has the clearest splash markings with little...
Ok, so here I am posting for my Mom again, shes getting into showing her LF cochins a little later in life and wants to know EVERYTHING! I'm a Silkie show addict, and don't educate myself with normal feathered birds much at all . She hatched what looks like either a partridge or red/gold...
Yeah thats a nice one, pretty similar to the ones the guy had, except for the doors on top. His were slide out doors, but I think the hinged ones are pretty neat too. I'll send her the link, but I don't think she knows anyone with the time to build them? It will definitely help if we don't...
Well, my Mother, thanks to me, is totally into showing birds now , and of course she wants to have some nice custom made wooden transport coops for her LF Cochins to be toted around in. My Silkies do fine in their KW rabbit transport cages, but hers are just too darn big, and she insists that...
Thank you for your reply . We did swab her for gape worm and did not find anything, but she does seem a little better today. I gave her some watered down nutrical and some hand fed fluids, plus oil in her feed w/ probiotics. So hopefully I covered all bases She is eating better so I will...
I am a little embarrassed to have to post this, since we usually figure the issue out and are able to treat. I cannot seem to find any other information based on her symptoms so hopefully someone has some advice from their experience.
Okay, so I have a very nice little 3 1/2 month old...
Ok, so I had heard a rumor in May, at a show here in Ca., about Silkie Nationals being in Ventura, CA this year....well, I was able to speak w/ Dave Anderson at our fair yesterday and it's true! He will be helping put on the nationals @ the ventura co. fairgrounds (near the ocean, and...