Are purebred silkies that hard 2 find? (pics, Beware Dial-up users!)

[silkiechicken]

The darker legged colorful ones look like EE's to me, and the white ones look like sultans.

EE is the generic green layer which hatcheries sell.

 

[redroosta]

Oh, wow the forum moved my thread and I couldn't tell where it was...

 

[silkiechicken]

Yep. Moved to what breed or gender.

As a hint, if you are on the main page, you can click on "your posts" and find all the threads you posted in.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I agree with silkiechicken, those are EE, not ameraucanas. That leg color is green.

And if she says the babies are sultans, than that's what I'd go with. I am not familiar enough with them to know what they look like. I just know they aren't silkies

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Those don't even look to be part silkie. I'm guessing some were in the wrong bins.

Quality of hatchery silkies can be quite variable, but most should have sufficient traits to recognise them as silkies. IMO, if you want silkies, even pet quality ones, purchase from a breeder. We almost always have PQ silkies available, and while they may cost more than from a hatchery, the quality will probably be better.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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There are many breeds and/or varieties with willow (green) legs. For example, araucanas, except for white, have willow legs.

 

[racuda]

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Here's mine at a week old:

And two weeks old:

 

[Catalina]

Pixie

 

[walkswithdog]

Even hatchery silkies would show darkish face skin, a darker beak and darkish legs like the ones pictured.

Yellow beaks, faces whose skin doesn't seem gray beneath the down, yellow legs all yell - not silkie.

Sultans make sense.

I saw a little boy at Tractor Supply quite happily moving chicks from one bin to another and back, like a kid moving sand mounds or toy trucks.

I bet that happens in a LOT of places.

If Sonoran were closer I'd be getting chicks from her and I may yet see when I can afford a few BBS eggs - of my sizzles six were male, two female, bad odds...

Right now I'm selling nearly everything but foundation stuff for a root canal bill... Doesn't he know CHICKENS are more important???

 

[redroosta]

is anyone here from AZ who shops at the stock shop? Also what do sultans look like?