Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

[Canadian Wind]

If I had a choice between calls and East Indies, I'd take the latter! So adorable!!!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I probably won't get back into ducks once my last little call passes on, but if I ever had the opportunity to get silky ducks I don't know if I could resist. Shocking, I know.

 

[fluffycrow]

I probably won't get back into ducks once my last little call passes on, but if I ever had the opportunity to get silky ducks I don't know if I could resist. Shocking, I know.

Oh my gosh they exist! How would that work?

 

[Canadian Wind]

I probably won't get back into ducks once my last little call passes on, but if I ever had the opportunity to get silky ducks I don't know if I could resist. Shocking, I know.

I have never heard of this, and wouldn't that make them non-waterproof?

 

[fluffycrow]

I have never heard of this, and wouldn't that make them non-waterproof?

That's what I'm thinking. But they look surprisingly poofy-less

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh my gosh they exist! How would that work?

They do!! Aren't genetic mutations fascinating?

I have never heard of this, and wouldn't that make them non-waterproof?

From my understanding, yes, they are less waterproof than ducks with normal feathers and can get waterlogged and drown, so you have to keep them with water shallow enough that they can touch the bottom. Which is fine with me because 90% of why I don't want to continue with ducks is dealing with the pool.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I have never heard of this, and wouldn't that make them non-waterproof?

It's a different type of silkie feathering. Kinda makes them look more ragged is all. They're hard to breed too since for whatever reason, homozygous hens lay super thick shells, so it's recommended to breed a homozygous male to heterozygous females.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

They were onmy list, but the obly places i could find only sold eggs or i was a bit hesitant to buy from

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yeah, they're definitely not poofy like with the chickens, just a bit fuzzy instead of smooth and streamlined like a typical duck. I hadn't heard about that with the eggshell thing, though. That's rather unfortunate in a recessive gene that doesn't express unless homozygous.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Yeah, they're definitely not poofy like with the chickens, just a bit fuzzy instead of smooth and streamlined like a typical duck. I hadn't heard about that with the eggshell thing, though. That's rather unfortunate in a recessive gene that doesn't express unless homozygous.

Yeah. If you incubate yourself, you could probably get away with hatching harder eggs if you know how to assist ducks eggs. But I had wanted to have my muscovy hatch for me, and the hardness was the final risk for me to decide against. But at least you could watch the male silkied in the flock