Colorado

[trsturself]

pozees and suncatcher... I can't wait to fill my incubator with your eggs!

 

[suncatcher]

I think you will get some very cute chicks from both of us! Silkies are adorable. I really need to stop looking at ads, or I will end up with too many chickens.

You will be using an Ecoglow incubator, right? Let me know how well it works. They look nice, and much better than a cheaper table top styro bator I am sure.

 

[ShysCreations]

I have 4 young silkies from my late fall hatch available. These hatched early October. The first 2 off color splash cockerels are $5 each.

Then a pair for $20, one patridge pullet and a porcelain male. They are full siblings. The buyer may choose a splash male to go with the pullet instead. The splash males are half siblings to pullet. The pullet wont be sold individually.

 

[Pozees]

Suncatcher, according to GQF I can set 3 racks of 90 eggs, or a total of 270, at once. I don't really expect to fill it, but will hatch for others if they wish. I have started dipping all my eggs in warm (110-120 degrees) water with a capful of Oxine and letting dry right before I set, and would do the same with anyone else's eggs, just to keep things nice and clean. I don't know whether it makes a difference, but after reading about dipping eggs in all manner of things to improve hatch rate (ascorbic acid was one) for a lot longer than 3-4 seconds, I stopped worrying about getting them wet.

Here are a couple of pictures of chicks that hatched this weekend.

 

[Pozees]

I have 4 young silkies from my late fall hatch available. These hatched early October. The first 2 off color splash cockerels are $5 each.

Then a pair for $20, one patridge pullet and a porcelain male. They are full siblings. The buyer may choose a splash male to go with the pullet instead. The splash males are half siblings to pullet. The pullet wont be sold individually.

Shylee, are you going to the National Western show next month? I might be interested in the Porcelain male if someone else buys the Partridge pullet with a Splash. Or the pair. Hmm. I'll let you know, or let me know if they are sold right away.

How do you already know the genders? We've been trying to guess on Ashdoes' youngsters, they're a bit older than yours, and a few seem obvious but the rest are really a mystery.

 

[trsturself]

I think you will get some very cute chicks from both of us! Silkies are adorable. I really need to stop looking at ads, or I will end up with too many chickens.

You will be using an Ecoglow incubator, right? Let me know how well it works. They look nice, and much better than a cheaper table top styro bator I am sure.

No, I made a cooler bator. I'll be using the ecoglow brooder. Can't wait. Seeing everyone's pics makes me want to start now!
Let's see, the stock show is in the last half of Jan right? hmmm....

 

[Pozees]

Let's see, the stock show is in the last half of Jan right? hmmm....

I just looked at the info Friday, it says all birds to be cooped by 2 p Friday the 24th, judging at 9 am Saturday the 25th. I'm trying to get in touch with Paul to see if he will be there either of those days, hoping he has a RIR cockerel I can buy and pick up there.

 

[trsturself]

We were going to show but one pullet messed up her comb, and the polish we were going to take is the one that burnt her comb. It wouldn't be worth the $30 exhibitor fee to show 2 chickens. :/
Luckily all this happened before I sent in the registration!

We might go down that saturday to look around though.

 

[suncatcher]

Suncatcher, according to GQF I can set 3 racks of 90 eggs, or a total of 270, at once. I don't really expect to fill it, but will hatch for others if they wish. I have started dipping all my eggs in warm (110-120 degrees) water with a capful of Oxine and letting dry right before I set, and would do the same with anyone else's eggs, just to keep things nice and clean. I don't know whether it makes a difference, but after reading about dipping eggs in all manner of things to improve hatch rate (ascorbic acid was one) for a lot longer than 3-4 seconds, I stopped worrying about getting them wet. Here are a couple of pictures of chicks that hatched this weekend.

That is a lot of eggs! Are these pure Silkie? They are soooo cute, are they from Cat Dance and Shylee lines? Yep, have heard of the oxdine dip and let them air dry, some people use very very weak bleach solution, the key is to let them air dry, don't wipe it off, as that pushs it into the egg, as the egg has pores. Shylee, So tempting! Did you ever sell that big Silkie Rooster you had at the Pueblo show? I kept thinking, I should have bought him! lol I have to keep telling myself, can't add anymore right now! I think I will end up with Silkies one day, if even just for tiny incubators, but my bantams are good at that too, had three go broody at six and half months, started laying at five months.

 

[suncatcher]

I have 4 young silkies from my late fall hatch available. These hatched early October. The first 2 off color splash cockerels are $5 each.

Then a pair for $20, one patridge pullet and a porcelain male. They are full siblings. The buyer may choose a splash male to go with the pullet instead. The splash males are half siblings to pullet. The pullet wont be sold individually.

Partridge is such a cool color! They are all so very sweet looking!