Debbie's Silkies

[2ndTink]

The jury is still out on all of them but CC pretty much I'm sure is a cockerel.

This chocolate still could be a cockerel too, but its comb is so much smaller than CC's and no wattles. The stance was more perky as it was trying to see over the planter for its siblings, but I do see what you mean!

I just hope within the next two weeks they'll be more definitive as we are heading to her farm on the 24th so I have to know what four I'm keeping for sure. I'm keeping CC regardless as that's the only real splash I have. Marsha's pretty close to one but I don't think we ever really figured out what Marsha is lol, she's just Marsha.

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Marsha is too special to be bound by a normal coor name I sure do like her though

 

[Nomadicus]

These are from your flock. Both lovely Satin kids. The Roo in the first picture I think would be called a blue satin. Right now he is very hormonal to say the least. He crows almost non stop to let everyone know that he is and is proud of it. The little black one posted next is I believe a young lady silkie. No comb but doesn't crow. Hope to find an egg from her soon to validate that I have a pair.

 

[Debbie292d]

These are from your flock. Both lovely Satin kids. The Roo in the first picture I think would be called a blue satin. Right now he is very hormonal to say the least. He crows almost non stop to let everyone know that he is and is proud of it. The little black one posted next is I believe a young lady silkie. No comb but doesn't crow. Hope to find an egg from her soon to validate that I have a pair.
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Both are beautiful! I too would call him a blue satin, but I don't know where he got that comb from as none of mine have one that big. Could be just a fluke though. Blueboy the rooster I assume would be his dad and one of the black satin hens I'm guessing is mom.

The young lady though isn't a satin, she's a silkie silkie. She almost looks chocolate to me. Could she be really dark brown?

 

[Nomadicus]

Both are beautiful! I too would call him a blue satin, but I don't know where he got that comb from as none of mine have one that big. Could be just a fluke though. Blueboy the rooster I assume would be his dad and one of the black satin hens I'm guessing is mom.

The young lady though isn't a satin, she's a silkie silkie. She almost looks chocolate to me. Could she be really dark brown?

If you see her in pure sunlight she is a black as black can get. I need to get the other black pullet's picture. I just realized that is the picture of my lost Elvira. Yes she is a silkie silkie. Another tough loss. The black satin can fly straight up to a 4' roost. Elvia could jump up a foot and never used a roost bar at all.

 

[Nomadicus]

I still don't know what my two buff silkies are. Both are frizzles.

 

[Debbie292d]

Yesterday, these hatched. 35, I think.

This was done for the Brinsea Connect Journey, and I had no intention of keeping any of them.

After they hatched, of course, I saw how cute they all were. I pondered keeping a couple of the Salmon Faverolles but changed my mind when I spotted two paints in this bunch!



Then, I spotted another silkie colored like nothing I've seen before. I asked on the Silkies are just Spectacular site and Hinotori didn't know either what color this was. If partridge, silkies have chipmunk markings and while a couple others have that marking, this one does not. So, we're keeping three.

 

[Mamadonna6]

Love your Silkies... following to see all the beautiful babies.

 

[Debbie292d]

Love your Silkies... following to see all the beautiful babies.

Awe, thank you!

And thanks for the follow. Followed back!

 

[2ndTink]

Yesterday, these hatched. 35, I think.

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This was done for the Brinsea Connect Journey, and I had no intention of keeping any of them.

After they hatched, of course, I saw how cute they all were. I pondered keeping a couple of the Salmon Faverolles but changed my mind when I spotted two paints in this bunch!

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Then, I spotted another silkie colored like nothing I've seen before. I asked on the Silkies are just Spectacular site and Hinotori didn't know either what color this was. If partridge, silkies have chipmunk markings and while a couple others have that marking, this one does not. So, we're keeping three.

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Yay! Keeping three!?! Wow, that dark one is unique! I'm glad you are keeping it so I can see how it grows up and the paints too, that is SOOOO cool!!!

Next Saturday I'll get to see how many paints hatch 9 paint eggies going so hopefully I'll hit the 50%-ish mark! (and of those theoretically 25% can be chocolate paint, please please please!!!)

So cool we broke our No Hatching Until 2025 rule, and the No Keeping Chicks after July rule together, and now we will be raising winter paints too!!!!!!!!!

 

[Marie2020]

I've got quite a bunch of incubating going on as I've been buying eggs plus hatching my own. I'm having issues keeping track of it all. I would do another hatch along but that does take a lot of work and sometimes I don't give it as much time as I feel I should.

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Thus, a couple folks suggested I just post what's going on here, add pictures as I get time. This sounds like a great way to keep track of everything all in one place!

Incubator 1: (Brinsea)
Has 16 of my own silkie eggs in it. I call them my fancies as they are from a breeder that raises show quality. They are vaulted and bearded. Seven in total of those.
Also has 12 Paint silkie eggs, shipped in from South Carolina. They took over a week to get here so not sure what to expect with that on top of the trip. I've hatched several batches of shipped eggs though and usually do pretty well, up in the 70% range. If it's over 50%, it's fine with me. These were all set February 17th.

On deck:

22 eggs, mostly silkie but other varieties arrived today from @2ndTink. We're swapping eggs so I got to see what a green egg looked like in person for the first time today. Also on deck, the second batch of Paint silkie eggs the seller sent when she thought they lost the first ones. Both of these boxes arrived today and are sitting in egg cartons to be set tomorrow morning/afternoon.

The breed pens for my "fancies:"
Piper, one of two roosters, but the only one in the pen. The other is Blueboy. The ladies are Marsha, a splash, Charlotte and Cocoa Puffs two chocolates. I've also just added the black hen. Blueboy is free-ranging with his partridge hen and the 7 pet quality silkies.
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Probably on Saturday, or within a week I will have two dozen cuckoo/buff/paint silkie eggs arriving.

These are from the first batch I got from her. They are now three weeks old and live in the brooder in our house. Today they got out for a while in the puppy pen in the living room.

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2/17/24: Set 18 of our eggs, 12 paint. 1:50 p.m. Due: 3/9.
2/21/24: Set 22 Tink's, 2nd set of 12 paint. 10:00 a.m. CST Due: 3/13.
2/25/24: Set 24 Buff/cuckoo, paint 3 a.m. Due 3/16
3/4/24: Set 12 of the pretties eggs. Due 3/25 9 hatched.
3/9/24: Set 23 eggs of the pretties for the Easter Hatchalong. Due 3/30. Put most in the NR360 and the rest in the Brinsea. 20 are left.
3/22/24: Set 22 of the pretties, due 4/12. (19)
4/10/24: Set 28 due 5/1. Lost several due to power outage causing rotator to stop as well. Down to 12 viable and 5 questionable in lockdown.
4/27/24: Set 24 due 5/18.
Missing two batches hatched.
5/15/24: Set 19. Due 6/5. Hatched 18.
5/30/24: Set 16. Due 6/20.
6/6/24: Set 35 of Bobbi's shipped eggs. Due 6/27. Only 11 hatched, but they are gorgeous.
6/13/24: Set 24 due 7/4. This was my last for the season, until...
7/16/24: Set 63 for the Brinsea Connect App Testers 7/21 ditched 10.

Amazing work and those little faces could melt an iceberg

I'm sorry I have only just found your thread