Debbie's Silkies

[Debbie292d]

Well in that case, when are you setting more eggs?

Every 4 days about 2.5 dozen.

Except for this experiment, it'll probably take a month to know, giving it one week to switch sperm that is. I guess we'll see! How exciting!

I know what happened. The mottled came from a place I ordered buffs and paint eggs. I got a bunch of weird things, like Oscar that gorgeous naked neck rooster, and Pearl, the beautiful NN paint, and no buffs. Not many of hers hatched, and I didn't realize some of hers would be satin, so kept what wasn't, not realizing the one hen I kept has a mottled gene in her.

could the white on the head be confused with the mottled look?)

No, as the white dot for the single-barred is tiny.

Here's one cuckoo chick (left) with the three mottled.




I had no idea those would be sex-linked, just like I'm doing with the black hens and the chocolate rooster. Cool beans! So I'll keep one of each. I'm all caught up with pre-sales with the sale of all 20 of these this weekend, then I'll start watching and saving.

Also, plan to keep: I'm going to be DNA testing any pure white ones with solid black feet I get from the paint pen and keeping one of those (there's one in this batch), a couple of chocolate pullets, a blue hen and cockerel, cuckoo pullet, buff pullet or two, and any that look like Missy, the grey moorehead partridge (she needs a roo) or keep one of her partridges she's producing to breed back to her. She's in the paint pen with a white rooster.