Anyone else hatching Feb. 1st?

[Fox]

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Oh! They are just too adorable!! Wonderful pictures!

 

[lurky]

Sara what is that blue fuzz ball? She is very cute. Are they done hatching? I have a customer with bantam araucana'a that brought me a DOZEN eggs today. My husband is gonna kill me

 

[siz8003]

yup the hatch is done I got 11 silkies 1 marans 1 EE and 2 from my brown eggs

The blue one is a silkie and my fav. so far. The silkies are not SQ like I was told but so cute anyway.Some are missing toes,wrong color skin and bad toe placement. I hate when people say they have awesome birds just to sell eggs when they dont.

 

[lurky]

It looks like the blue one you say is a silkie is bigger than the yellow one. But silkies are the smallest of all the breeds you mentioned. So what is the yellow chick that is smaller than the silkie? Did that make sense????

 

[Fox]

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She has 11 Silkies, and they come in different colors. It looks to me, like the yellow chick is another Silkie.

 

[Fox]

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I am sorry you didn't get SQ Silkie eggs. With all the trouble you have it doesn't look like an isolated issue. I had one hatch out with a missing toe. Everything else is correct about them. I think we have traced it back to a parent bird who was supposed to be all pure and looks it. Her other offspring were normal, but then a few hatched with a missing toe nail on the 5th toe and then this last batch one had 4 toes! It was a shock! But with genetics, things can be far back in the genetic line and only pops up at some time down the line. It is unfortunate, but if there is only one issue and it's only recently popping up, I would say it's possible it was a new line they were not as familiar with as they thought. But... with having different color skin and missing toes, it seems like a bigger problem. You can still keep them for broody chickens and eggs or sell them as pet quality chickens. They are still quite adorable and are gentle chickens. They do make wonderful pets for people.

I would contact the person you got your eggs from because they need to be aware of what is going on. There is the off chance that their hatches have been fine up to this point and that a new chicken or two has thrown things off. They might even offer you some replacement eggs.

 

[siz8003]

This person is an e-bay seller and I dont think they have any SQ birds. I just fond their web site.The chicks are cute but some big and some little.

I got riped off and that just sux.

 

[Bock_Bock]

im sorry to hear that i will file a complaint about them if your lucky u can get your money back for false advertisement

 

[siz8003]

Can I do that?

 

[Bock_Bock]

how did you pay for the eggs? did u use paypal?