Ask to see the rooster and hen, if she doesn't know which hen and rooster that chick came from you won't know what the possibilities of colors might be. There is a chart listing all the possibilities with breeding colors, my guess is your chickens parents one may of been a partridge color.
Fancy,
I had a hen like that she would wait for my other silkies to leave and knew I would carry her out and would cluck very contentedly, she was a diva of the best kind:)
Thanks tencowgirl! I am fazing out of the silkies, I love them but the old English game bantams are a bit more predator proof and a bit more out going. But I do miss my silkie friends, all I have left are these babies, hard to sell at three weeks however everyone wants pullets and way to early...
Hi guys,
Rehoming my silkies and keeping only a few of my flock of my oegb's. So will be selling all my chicks and 3 hens a rooster and a cockrel. Willing to sell them in trio's. otherwise I will end up with all my roosters, pm me if you are interested.
RE: locking the girls in the coop - I lock mine in the coop every night yet they still don't seem to consider it 'home.' They always huddle up together (there are 5) on my deck. I go out each night to pick them up and carry them to the coop and lock them in. As soon as I open it in the...