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    What is most important when breeding silkies? Silky Breeders Help me!

    I understand the hatchery thing but the one with four toes I have now I got from a breeder on here. So I am not sure you can say. Breeders are better then hatcherys all the time. I get attatched to my birds I am more then willing to add better stock I just don't want to have to sell off all the...
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    What is most important when breeding silkies? Silky Breeders Help me!

    Quote: Type is most important. There is a saying, "build the house first, then paint it." A bird with four toes and excellent type will give better quality offspring than one with poor type but correct toes. However, if you are going to use a four-toes bird, the mate must have at least five...
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    What is most important when breeding silkies? Silky Breeders Help me!

    I am going to go check again but I am pretty sure I checked my black silky and he had 5 toes on both feet. The questionable bird has 4 on one and 5 on the other. I know my birds will never be the best starting with what I have but I like the ones I have and want to just keep improving the...
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    What is most important when breeding silkies? Silky Breeders Help me!

    This is really long and I am sorry. I just have a lot of questions. We have been working to improve our own silky stock and want to be able to have beautiful chicks to sell as well. Last year we decided to go with blue's so we got two "blue" from someone off of here, they ended up black. And we...
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