Buff Silkie Thread!

[greeneggs444]

cute

 

[Zgoatlady]

So Im looking for a Buff Roo if anyone knows of someone Id be a happy girl .. I have two buff hens started with 3 and hubby gave one to his friend. Not happy about that at all bet it was a roo... Oh well I dont have to have the best in the world I dont show just like the color.

 

[Evelle]

ohhh i just love these

 

[kfchickenlady]

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I have 3 buff roos, PM me if youre interested.

 

[Beth G.]

I wanted to share a cute pic of my three talkative buff silkie girls. All day long its bauk bauk bauk etc.... The three of them chatter all day long its funny

 

[Peachesbabychick]

Guys!!! I am getting a Buff silkie today!!! And Iv'e never had silkies before!!!

 

[Beth G.]

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[Peachesbabychick]

 

[Zgoatlady]

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that is great you will love them..

 

[Chicken Crazy12]

So how do you get the smutt out of buff silkies?

I started with a trio. hens were very clean except a few tail feathers no biggy, roo had a bit of smutt in the wings but not much and then some tail smutt. hatched out of them and kept a lot of babies some have tail smutt and look fairly clean others have wing smutt and tail smutt

so I decided to get some hatching eggs from a different line. They were supposed to be show quality buffs and I was less than impressed come hatch day.

They were smuttier than any of the chicks I had hatched and one had a crooked beak and the toe spacing was not bad, but closer than my line. I'm not naming any names on where I got them from, but the few adults in the picture looked clean so I thought I was adding good blood into my buff program. These chicks have grown out, some have smutt in their crests, several have smutt in their leg feathering and then of course in the wings and tail feathers