Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

[brenTx]

For now...NO. I don't have enough space to do that over the winter months. I have to hold these inside for so long it really makes it hard. The paints are closer to the end results for now. I will try in the spring when I can house more outside as they mature. If all that makes sense? Even if the blacks aren't carriers then I do feel sure some may really be nice quailty blacks in the end.

 

[JenEric Farms]

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I totally understand the space issue. I have some Silkie chicks in the house as well. I don't heat the coops.

 

[PremierSilkies]

Right now I have a leaky white dutch boy from Jerry on a american paint hen from Judy & a linebred black GM hen in a pen. Also set up a pen for the black dutch boy from Jerry on two of my black hens & one white. Food dye for all the girls to mark the eggs, very curious what will happen from both pens. The other two american paints need to grow up before I can work them into the program. Where did you get your Euro's Bren? I seen no size difference with the Euro's, but I am used to a good Mihalik, lol
Had the leaky Euro white hop the divider already into my white pen, ugh Time will tell if my white eggs get spots, lol

 

[SarahIrl]

Sorry, not breding silkies or know anything abou tthe paint colour - but you say you're giving the hens food dye to seperate the eggs = how does that work?

 

[PremierSilkies]

use an eye dropper with a different color in each vent, yellow is not an option, lol but you can mix the food dye to create more colors, it will last a week or two with streaks of color down side of egg as they are laid. Make sure to have your notebook with dye color to each hens leg band/name. I do this even in my white & black pens when I want to track a certain crossing of birds. I have wire baskets in hatcher to keep chicks from blending at hatch and still have the ole parakeet # plastic bandettes, lots of notes, rebanding as they grow. Food dye does not hurt the hens.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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By "dutch boy" I assume you mean a silkie boy from Dutch lines, not the dutch breed of chicken (and certainly not the Dutch Boy brand of paint

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[PremierSilkies]

oh my gosh that is just tooo funny, as I am painting a room tonight for the 13 year old daughter with some lime green dutch boy semi gloss!

But yes, in my flock the dutch are the dutch bloodline paint silkie boys & than I have the American silkie paints. Only other breed on my place is cochins & one lil ole black oe hen Tiny!
I am not as diverse as others for chicken breeds.

 

[boykin2010]

do you sell hatching eggs??? lol

 

[PremierSilkies]

Ummm if you are asking me, no
As an exhibition breeder it is not in your best interest to sell eggs unless you needed money. Which I do not,

My next champion or key bird in the program could have been in that egg or good chick sold. So it is best to let the stock
finish out and than sell what I do not need in my program.
But there are plenty of breeders out there that sell quality stock as eggs & chicks!
The paints I have no interest in sell anything anytime soon, there are auctions currently up though from Debs paint stock.
Is the link around?

 

[rilly10]

Here is the link....

http://www.bidbird.com/listings/categories/index.cfm?category=961037311&from=&itemnum=0

This is going to be one hot auction! I am so glad that we have such awesome breeders working on this new project! I was starting a columbian silkie project but this looks sooo much more interesting! Hmmmmm lol!