How did this happen?

[BamaChicken]

Last nite another conehead hatched. It still hasn't completely fluffed out. I have created a partridge. I have a pen of silkies that I am not selling eggs from. I had a buff splash in with a splash for a while till I was ready to move in with buff cockeral who as of now I can't tell is doing any servicing. Also I had two buff silkies in with splash roo. I think this must be from the buff splash hen. Anybody need a partidge?

 

[speckledhen]

Yeah, how did you get a partridge out of those colors? Hmm. Cute, though.

 

[KingsCalls]

Cute chick...............but, those 2-tone nails make me shiver all over....! (just playin')

 

[Screebert]

Cute! Looks like he got his 'do gelled & slicked into a faux-hawk.

 

[Katy]

Cute! I've got some silkie eggs in my incubator now. I've never had them and I used to think they were pretty ugly, but now I think they're pretty cute.

These eggs were in the mail for 8 days, but a couple of nights ago when I candled some of them, it looked some of them were actually growing.

 

[skeeter9]

What a pretty baby!! Interesting color. Should be a beauty when all feathered out!!!

 

[jimnjay]

Julie, I don't know the genetics of Partridge but with my first order of Silkie Eggs, I got them from a mixed flock and the majority hatched partridge. Many had black heads with the flecked body. I know there were black and buff in the flock and others from the mixed colored flock. Maybe they are really just Smut colored, LOL, I dont' know but the blend in some was very pretty.

 

[BamaChicken]

Thanks Skeeter. Katy I bet you have some hatches. Eggs can be up to 14 days and still viable although it goes down the older they get from what I understand.
It does look like it used Dippity Do. I will take a pic later tonite and let you see how pretty it has fluff up.

 

[Katy]

I hope I get some to hatch

Holey Moley....I haven't heard the name Dippity Do in a long time...do they still make that stuff?

 

[BamaChicken]

I doubt they still make Dippity Do. Now we things called Brace and such.