Debbie's Silkies

[Debbie292d]

Carol today. Kind of a bad picture as it's indoors, but she was crabby. Sure a far cry from the beautiful buff/cuckoo frizzle I had. She's about 3 years old.

 

[niazai_thechickenlife]

Lester is a lemon.

View attachment 4228833

Carol is a buff. She molted and now is burnt orange. I will get a new picture of her.
View attachment 4228835

Totally my mistake.
I assumed you were summing them up left to right, but you went right to left haha. I can see now that he's lemon!!
what a stud.

What hen would he need to breed with to get that same colour? Another lemon? Or not necessarily?

 

[Debbie292d]

Totally my mistake.
I assumed you were summing them up left to right, but you went right to left haha. I can see now that he's lemon!!
what a stud.

What hen would he need to breed with to get that same colour? Another lemon? Or not necessarily?

The breeder of the lemon rooster suggested I put him with buff hens, which is what I did. I got about 3/4 buffs and 1/4 lemon.

I forgot now why I had marked a couple with orange, maybe those were ones not to sell. I hatched so much this summer and should have kept better notes lol.

 

[niazai_thechickenlife]

The breeder of the lemon rooster suggested I put him with buff hens, which is what I did. I got about 3/4 buffs and 1/4 lemon. View attachment 4229730

I forgot now why I had marked a couple with orange, maybe those were ones not to sell. I hatched so much this summer and should have kept better notes lol.

That makes sense ! Very cool to see

 

[Debbie292d]

About a week ago, we integrated eight from the large four season growout pen, to the coop. I've never seen such near perfect integration, as usually we've got the brooms out and we're rustling from their old pen they kept going back to, to the coop where they now live. That way takes 4-5 days.

These, we just put inside one night, and they went back ever since. I do have to feed them separate though every morning, as the older witches in there won't let them eat/drink and they run out in the morning to avoid them.

These, I intend to keep. They are a fine pair of paints, a chocolate pullet carrying mottled, a black cockerel carrying mottled, a white pullet, two black pullets, and a partridge cuckoo pullet. I got lucky with only two roosters of these eight.

The black cockerel and the chocolate will be bred together in a few months. They should create full mottled chicks. I'm excited about that!


Then the ducks came over to see what was going on.



The four seasons pen now has these. Some were already in there as they were smaller, and the ones from the new shed pen came to join them.

Some of the newcomers. The one on the right, @2ndTink, tested and has zero recessive white genes, so must be dominant. I'll breed her to the black/mottled next spring to see what we get. This is an experimental breeding, where a dominant white is crossed with a black, which will produce 100% paint. However, the outcome is unknown if the black has a mottled gene. @NatJ wants to know too. By fall, I should be able to put her with a full mottled, but I don't think that's as huge as this.


A gray splash frizzle, paint with a funny face, and a buff.





I need a moorhead partridge rooster for Missie, my hen, and here's one but she's a pullet. I am not sure I'd keep another of the same.


Here's Missy for reference. I don't really need two of her. I may put the two side by side and see which one has better SOP, but usually it comes down to the wings. Missie is fine, so we'll see.

 

[TwoCrows]

About a week ago, we integrated eight from the large four season growout pen, to the coop. I've never seen such near perfect integration, as usually we've got the brooms out and we're rustling from their old pen they kept going back to, to the coop where they now live.

These, we just put inside one night, and they went back ever since. I do have to feed them separate though every morning, as the older witches in there won't let them eat/drink and they run out in the morning to avoid them.

These, I intend to keep. They are a fine pair of paints, a chocolate pullet carrying mottled, a black cockerel carrying mottled, a white pullet, two black pullets, and a partridge cuckoo pullet. I got lucky with only two roosters of these eight.

The black cockerel and the chocolate will be bred together in a few months. They should create full mottled chicks. I'm excited about that!
View attachment 4230821

Then the ducks came over to see what was going on.
View attachment 4230820


The four seasons pen now has these. Some were already in there as they were smaller, and the ones from the new shed pen came to join them.

Some of the newcomers. The one on the right, @2ndTink, tested and has zero recessive white genes, so must be dominant. I'll breed her to the black/mottled next spring to see what we get. This is an experimental breeding, where a dominant white is crossed with a black, which will produce 100% paint. However, the outcome is unknown if the black has a mottled gene. @NatJ wants to know too. By fall, I should be able to put her with a full mottled, but I don't think that's as huge as this.
View attachment 4230827

A gray splash frizzle, paint with a funny face, and a buff.
View attachment 4230829

View attachment 4230834


I need a moorhead partridge for Missie, my hen, and here's one but she's a pullet. I am not sure I'd keep another of the same. I'll think about it.
View attachment 4230831

Here's Missy for reference. I don't really need two of her. I may put the two side by side and see which one has better SOP, but usually it comes down to the wings. Missie is fine, so we'll see.
View attachment 4230840

I don't think I have any cockerels in this pen. These are at least four months old, so I should know by now if I did.

You have the prettiest Silkies Debbie, thanks for sharing them!

 

[Debbie292d]

You have the prettiest Silkies Debbie, thanks for sharing them!

Thank you, Leyla. They sure do make me proud.

 

[2ndTink]

So much fluff! You have a very busy 2026 season on the way and I can't wait to hear about the results of the test breeding.