Arizona Chickens

[kevs-chickadees]

Mikey!!!


Just decided recently to get fuzzy butts...figured too late to add to your order.

Hmm,,,2 hubby's. You both are great at building things. I always have projects I would like done!

For sure I wouldn't forget your names as current hubby is a Mike. Going to celebrate 10 years on Feb 2.

Mikey prancing. I would like to see that. You don't seem the prancer type LOL.

Congrats, our is on the 5th, Feb is a good month.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

Hope fully I will have some eggs arriving at my door today sometime.

Our wheaten Marans layed her first egg on Monday, took pictures but now I need to figure out how to get them from the camera to the computer.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Bearded silkies have very small, nearly non-existent wattles (the bearded gene reduces the size of wattles); non-bearded silkies typically have fairly large wattles. Without a photo, I would not hazard a guess on gender, and maybe not even then. But I would say that wattles are not really a reliable indicator in silkies.

From your description, it sounds like the chicks are probably blue.

Wow really! How did breeding a white to a pratridge give me blue chicks. Here is a not to good of a photo of one of the dark chicks. Maybe I should send one of Tumbleweed to see if he really is a pratridge. I will also get one of the buff chick I think is roo. Maybe you could tell.

 

[Fuzzybird]

Here is pictures I just took of Tumbleweed and his young flock. Now he is a pratridge right? Note the small ones with Cotton! I love this picture!

 

[Fuzzybird]

Here is the buffs that I got at the feed store. The single bird is Sassafrase that I think is the roo? The buff are 11 weeks old.

 

[mclevinson]

Is it ewweee that they have fresh dressed silkie in the poultry section of Lee Lee's Market?

 

[SherrieT]

I've seen those in our Lee Lee's and I've always been curious as to the taste. But then it's been a few years separation since I had my silkies so that probably plays into it.

Is it ewweee that they have fresh dressed silkie in the poultry section of Lee Lee's Market?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Yes, feed stores will often order what is requested, but with the breeds mentioned, there is a pretty good chance that they are or will be already carried at one store or another. Pam in Goodyear raises exhibition Ameraucanas; I do not know if she has or will sell youngsters, though.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Yes, Tumbleweed is a male; you knew that

I am not going to hazard a gender guess on any of the immatures--wait and sooner or later each bird will crow or lay--right now they do not look mature enough for me to make a good guess from photos--in person--maybe, but even then no certainty.

"Chickens are our Friends, NOT our Food." So yes, Meg, it is definitely EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

 

[Fuzzybird]

Yes, Tumbleweed is a male; you knew that

I am not going to hazard a gender guess on any of the immatures--wait and sooner or later each bird will crow or lay--right now they do not look mature enough for me to make a good guess from photos--in person--maybe, but even then no certainty.

"Chickens are our Friends, NOT our Food." So yes, Meg, it is definitely EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

Thx SS and MEG I heard that silkies are a delicacy but for me.

I wanted to make sure that Tumbleweed was for sure a partridge.

And OH SS is the chick a blue you think?