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    Newish chickie mom joining from SE Idaho!

    Hey everyone! I'm Michelle, mama to 3 blue laced wyandottes, and 6 blue splash silkies ...all about 5 weeks old. We love then so much! Their personalities, quirks, the snuggles and purrs....all of it has made the past several weeks so special! My grandma got me started with chickens years...
  2. K

    The good ole “help me figure out what gender my silkies are” post

    I have two silkies. One black and one white. I originally swore the black was a male based off of the stance it had always had but I’m not so sure. This white one is much smaller but the hair is different. It also has a much deeper cluck lol. My poor black one has pretty bad cross beak, but has...
  3. Y

    Hen or roo?

    Can you guys help me sex my 3 month old silkie chicks? I know it’s hard to sex silkies and best options are to wait until they either crow or lay an egg but sometimes a few are really obvious so I wanted to see what you guys think. How many look like they might be roos and how many might be...
  4. Y

    What am I doing wrong???

    Okay, so I’ve been raising chicks for almost three years now. My survival rate for my chicks has always been high; I rarely lost a chick in the past 3 years, and I’ve raised so many. I just always put extra time and care into my chicks. But I don’t know where everything went wrong this time...
  5. Zuk33p34

    Silkie growth rate

    I started off with 5 chickens. One died and the place I got them from replaced her. I went back and got another Silkie to befriend the bantam Cochin I already had. The Silkie was the same hatch date as my original 5. All that is to say, I feel like the silkie isn't growing at all. It seems to...
  6. Maleficent265

    help! Silkies are ugly but they don’t have to be!

    Can anyone recommend a place to get really high quality silkie eggs? I’d love to hatch some! And the birds they sell at TSC and Rural King are so… well they’re cute but also very ugly. I’ve also been looking for seramas!
  7. Katieskerlong

    Partridge chicks from buffs?

    Hi everyone, I have a buff roo and hen together and a white roo and hen all in the same enclosure. I only ever see my buffs together and whites together tho. Anyway both hens went broody together and so I gave them 6 eggs all together from each of them. 4 have hatched obviously very white...
  8. K

    6w old silkie gender based off comb method?

    This baby very much gives off roo vibes just based off of the insane straight stand up posture they always seem to have. I have another silkie who’s much smaller, but from the same hatch. She doesn’t stand up near as straight as this guy. What are we thinking based off of the comb?
  9. AvidKnip

    Newbie intro 👋🏻

    Hello. New member here. I usually just read and don’t always contribute but figured I’d say hi in case that changes. I live in Western Illinois with my husband on our little homestead. Currently have horses, ducks, geese, cats, dogs, and my chickens. I list 10 of my ladies last year to a...
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    What feed do you give your silkies?

    Hi everyone, I have a couple silkie hens and a silkie rooster. I want to give them the best feed for their bodies. Some are 1 years old and the others 2 years old. The hens are laying but I have a rooster in there with them so I want him to have the proper nutrition as well. I’ve heard purina...
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    Are These Not Splash Silkies?

    Hello! First post so let me know if I do this wrong or am posting in the wrong place! I'm from Australia, I have had chickens for about 2 years, I keep my flock small and want to eventually have a little BBS flock (with one exception - a partridge that's become a favourite) currently I only...
  12. alohapepesilkies

    Three Self Blue and Split To Self Blue DNA Sexed Cockerels (8 weeks old) Left!

    I have the last three Silkie Bantam chicks left. All are DNA Sexed cockerels and healthy. Awesome personalities! Hatched on February 6th, 2025 (2 months aka 8 weeks old). All are Frizzles. Two Lavender aka Self Blue including Showgirl. Both are Pet Quality based on 6 extra toes. But other than...
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    Frazzle ?

    These silkies are 4 weeks old. Do the look just frizzle or frazzle ?
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    What age should I sell my purebred silkies and at what price

    I'm a young person, and I want to start up my own website selling my pure bred silkies. and am just wanting some advice about what age would be most appropriate to sell them and what price would be reasonable Thanks Hopefully prospective silky seller
  15. Y

    Silkie color breeding

    So I have a black silkie rooster, a white silkie hen, and a buff silkie hen. I know that when breeding my black rooster with my white hen, the chicks will all come out black because the black is dominant and the white is recessive. But, when breeding my black rooster with my buff hen, what color...
  16. CrazyChickenLady123

    New Silkies!!!

    I have some exciting news to share! So get cozy and read my adventure! So it all started when I was deep in the trenches of the Internet, when I came across this add for really fluffy chickens. I knew that I wanted to have some of these adorable fluff balls! So I ended up buying five silkies...
  17. Y

    tiny project

    So a year ago, I bred my kikiriki hen with my silkie rooster and I got one chick which is this rooster. His name is blue and he is half silkie and half kikiriki. As you can see, he has regular feathers like his mom but a comb like his dad, an extra finger on both feet like his dad, and feathered...
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    Adult silkie with splay leg

    My little black silkie hen has splay leg. IDK how she got it, since I got her as an adult, but she seems to have trouble walking. Can splay leg be treated when they're adults? Would binding the legs together help? She can walk on her own, but she seems to have a lot of trouble. For the most...
  19. R

    Silkies started laying

    Hi guys new to silkies one of 3 of my hens have started laying she is laying 1 day missing a day. She has a total of 3 eggs so far when will she clock them? How many do they lay before sitting on the eggs. Are silkies good clockers i heard they are? Thankyou
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