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Congrats on your silkied easter egger, she's pretty.

The project moved to a new thread, it's linked in my signature on this post. We're still working on them, though the new thread may seem quiet.

Hi Krissie23, this is a historical thread that moved to a new one because the title inadverdently led people to ask those sorts of questions on this thread - and we aren't the right thread to find those answers in. You'd have better luck starting a new thread. I have no idea what would cause...

This thread has a misleading title and isn't really about troubleshooting odd feathers in general (we have since moved activity to a more appropriate named thread). I couldn't find a definitive Barred Rock thread, but this one might have folks who can help you. Otherwise you may want to start...

We had a split thread a bit back, on mobile so this link might come out funky: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/827543/silkied-ameraucana-project

We have a new thread over here for those who might have missed it (less misleading thread name): https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/827543/silkied-ameraucana-project AFAIK no one has eggs to ship just yet, but I could be wrong. I expect there will be some later in the season - I'm pretty...

Great, I'll keep that in mind about the Smith lines :) I got my first egg off one of the pullets I hatched, I suspect it was my blue split pullet from ChooksChick since those chicks are my oldest hatched chicks. A bit green tinged, but a good start to know someone new is laying!

Welcome aboard! :)

My flock is hatched out from some lovely birds from CatKai, she does have amazing birds :) The rooster is great and his ladies are sweet as pie! I was looking at the ABC directory and saw there's a breeder 2 hours south of me that raises blacks -- thinking of sending them an email to see what...

If you haven't had any takers chick-among-us, I'll buy them from you. Maybe I can get a red line going just as a for-fun secondary project :) I think I'm going to work towards black on my breeding pens since they are gorgeous and that could benefit the color projects once the flock turnover...

I'm in Louisburg, KS -- about 2 hours from the KS-OK boarder. I know we have some TX folks too, not sure about any in OK itself.

Congrats on the first egg! Those blues are very pretty; I'm finding I'm exceptionally fond of the blacks with silkied feathering, but the blues are a close second!

Lovely pictures CatKai! I need to post some too, your babies are all growing up to be handsome little guys and gals. The blacks and dark blues are especially lovely

Missed that somehow, that's rough. Renee is awesome, met her when I drove down to pick up some eggs a few months ago. Hopefully things settle down for her soon. Beautiful chicks cjwaldon, and nice photo taking skills you have there too!

Hopefully someone can pick up your chicks soon and keep that end of the project going They sure are beautiful babies! Sorry to hear about your dogs CatKai. It's always rough to lose one, even if putting them down is the best you can do to help them. I hope your doggie with a stroke gets...

For the roll call: still working with them here. I have Blue/Black/Splash by way of CatKai and a pair of blue splits from ChooksChicks. Had a grow-out pen security failure and lost a handful of chicks to predators last night. Going to reinforce the digging protections with a new layer of...

Sorry for the delay, here's some pictures. I don't have any good ones from in the brooder it looks like, so I do have a few from in the brooder-cleaning-day holding cage. It's kind of dirty, looks like I need to clean this too today! Top: One of the chicks CatKai sent up with Mr Rooster, all...

So of the last hatch there are 14 chicks and it looks (and I could be wrong) like 11 silkied and 3 normal. The color split out as 7 blue downs, 5 white downs, and 2 black downs. I'll do a re-count of silkied status in a few more days when the last few chicks' feathers open up, but they looked...

That interesting about the egg shipping changes, I hadn't heard! Ended up putting some of the eggs due to go into lockdown under the hen who went broody. Hopefully they hatch well and fullfill her mothering instincts. I'd let her do some from start to end, but I'm hoping to move them to the...

8 chicks out drying off so far. One more mostly out when I left for work, and one other that needs some help. (The 'help' egg's pip was bloody and on the bottom of the egg; I initially thought it was dead, but it was just weak and barely breathing. I peeled back a bit of the shell around the...