My first bantam chicks!!!

[Crazyabouthens]

Super cute! Hope you enjoy them Let us know what you get up to with them! I would really like to have silkies… i might be getting frizzles soon

 

[Anime2lover]

Doesn’t look like a Silkie to me

Not all hatchery quality silkies have noticeable muffs as chicks.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Not all hatchery quality silkies have noticeable muffs as chicks.

It definitely has 5 toes. So I say it is a silkie.
It’s also my most social bantam chick.

I did just notice yesterday that my one white silkie has 5 toes on one foot and 4 on the other
I don’t really care though. Oh well...

 

[Anime2lover]

It definitely has 5 toes. So I say it is a silkie.
It’s also my most social bantam chick.

I did just notice yesterday that my one white silkie has 5 toes on one foot and 4 on the other
I don’t really care though. Oh well...

heir just simply hatchery quality silky chicks. But they definitely are. Your brown one looks like what my partridge colored silky used to (but mine had a major muff.)

 

[NatJ]

heir just simply hatchery quality silky chicks. But they definitely are. Your brown one looks like what my partridge colored silky used to (but mine had a major muff.)

Silkies do not have to have muffs.
Even show-quality and show-winning Silkies are allowed to be beardless.
Because of how the genes work, a beardless silkie also has no muffs.

So lack of muffs has nothing to do with what quality they are.

 

[Anime2lover]

Silkies do not have to have muffs.
Even show-quality and show-winning Silkies are allowed to be beardless.
Because of how the genes work, a beardless silkie also has no muffs.

So lack of muffs has nothing to do with what quality they are.

I'm meaning the poof ball they have on their heads. Not the beards. I have a beardless myself.

 

[NatJ]

I'm meaning the poof ball they have on their heads. Not the beards. I have a beardless myself.

Muffs are on the sides of the face, near the beard.

The poof ball on the top of the head is called a crest.
Yes, Silkies are definitely supposed to have a crest.

I've read that they are able to grow a nicely feathered crest even without having the vaulted (raised) skull. So there's still hope for them! (The vaulted skull sometimes has a weak spot or even a hole in it, so the ones with non-vaulted skulls have better protection for their brains, which can be a good thing.)

 

[Anime2lover]

Muffs are on the sides of the face, near the beard.

The poof ball on the top of the head is called a crest.
Yes, Silkies are definitely supposed to have a crest.

I've read that they are able to grow a nicely feathered crest even without having the vaulted (raised) skull. So there's still hope for them! (The vaulted skull sometimes has a weak spot or even a hole in it, so the ones with non-vaulted skulls have better protection for their brains, which can be a good thing.)

Yes. I've noticed with my own none vaulted silkies. I called it a muff simply because I didn't know what it was, sorry for the confusion. My white male didn't have one but still has a good poof ball on his head.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

2 week bantam update

Millie fleur d’ Uccle


Golden neck d’ Uccle


Blue Cochin bantam


Partridge silkie (I think)


Blue silkie (I think it’s splash)


White silkie

BTW Japanese bantam


Silver Sebright


Golden Sebright


BB red old English bantam
I saw somewhere that you can tell male vs female of these based on color at a very young age. Is this true?

 

[NatJ]

BB red old English bantam
I saw somewhere that you can tell male vs female of these based on color at a very young age. Is this true?

Some people say they can tell from the time the chicks hatch, by looking at the markings. I am not one of those people.

But from the time they grow feathers in their breast, you should be able to tell for sure: males get a black breast, females get a salmon-colored breast (much lighter than black.) The variety is called "Black Breasted Red" because of that black breast coloring in the males.