California - Northern

[CALI CHICK]

Hi Feathersprings,
Do you have me mixed up with someone else? (I don't think I've sold any chicks to anyone.....only re-homed a dozen roosters this last year!)

I'm not sure about the color of the white silkie. Your splash is gorgeous-and looks like a pullet. My two splash are both boys, but I plan to keep them for breeding in my B/B/S pen.

Good luck with your incubator issues.

I have been playing with my incubator since I had bad hatches. Things are getting better for me with three of 5 Silkie eggs hatching and 3 of 4 this time. Now i have 4 more in the incubator. Wish my Partridge Silkie hen would start laying so I could hatch a few from her for next year. I do have one egg from her that she laid the day she got here but nothing since This is one of the four in the incubator. Maybe by Spring time I will have the incubator thing down a bit better... Loving my chicks from you. My husband is quite intrigued with the "Sizzle" dont know still if it is a Cockerel or pullet. I may have to build it a special "Sizzle house" if it is a boy . I am sending a pictures of them and maybe you can tell me what color she is ??
Buff cockerel



? What color? She has light yellowish across the shoulders and some on the wings and chest, hard to see in the picture


Splash


Sizzle

 

[debs_flock]

Go little chickies, GO!

It's nice to know others that have silkies. They are my snuggle buddies. I love my "normal" chickens, but my silkies are SO sweet!

By the way, does anyone on this thread breed Buff Orpingtons? If we move to Pilot Hill, I would like to get a BO cockerel or rooster for my layer flock.
Quote: I never had silkies in the past, but hatched a showgirl and a silkie. Then I got hooked on their personalities. I've bought several batches of silkie eggs.

Deb

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I'd have to go back and look. I forget if they were blue or black (they just say "B"), I just got 7 eggs off a swap thread. One of the good ones was from a lavendar pen. The color on them is very nice though.

Currently I have one blue pullet I hatched from a swap last year.

Deb

ill take your extras

 

[ronott1]

here is my (Supposed to be a partridge penedesenca) I think she is wheaten x partridge)
very cool pattern coming in

I Really like the way she looks!
Mine has the partridge pattern but the legs are white. I think the lady we got them from hatched a couple of batches so maybe mine came from a different combo? Are you keeping the Roo?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Purples didnt make it. Off to Davis on Monday.

I'm so sorry.

It seems funny to be hatching when BYCrs on the East coast are closing down for the year. They claim that chicks hatching now will never develop correctly because of the snow.

My last hatch of the year will be this week.....ok that is not true since sometime in October I am getting some Blue Egg Layers from the University of Arkansas eggs.

Ron

I have hatched at all times of the year (even New Year's) without any issues - even with the snow. And I brood outdoors in a small coop.

 

[ronott1]

Quote:
I hatched last Christmas myself and they are wonderful. There may be an old Farmer Tale about hatching in the winter on the East Coast. I like hatching now because they start laying eggs when others are getting their baby chicks.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I Really like the way she looks!
Mine has the partridge pattern but the legs are white. I think the lady we got them from hatched a couple of batches so maybe mine came from a different combo? Are you keeping the Roo?

I am not sure. he has white streaking on his head so I do not think he is pure either. I will probably grow him out and see

 

[debs_flock]

I'm assuming you both (Ron & Jason) got your chicks from the same place. Were they supposed to be pure?

Deb

 

[Miss Molly]

here is my (Supposed to be a partridge penedesenca) I think she is wheaten x partridge)
 very cool pattern coming in

WOW Jason, I love her! Molly

 

[ronott1]

I'm assuming you both (Ron & Jason) got your chicks from the same place. Were they supposed to be pure?

Deb

The person we got them from hatched them from a Breeder. Apparently it is common for the Wheaten to be crossed with the partridge because of the way the roosters look. It could also be similar to what happened to me with the SG Dorking eggs. The Breeder did not wait long enough between rooster switches so some of the chicks were SG Dorking and the others were Buff Americana mixed with SG Dorking. Stuff happens like this, especially with a Breed as rare as the Penedescencas.

As a quick other topic, the EE pullet I got from the SG Dorking and EE cross is an amazing egg layer and very pretty looking. She is currently the egg laying champ of my new pullets. The eggs are a very nice blue too.