Show us your silkie mixes!!

[Cloverr39]

Barring is a sexlinked gene, which means that a female cannot pass it to her daughters, only to her sons. If the father is barred, he can pass it to either his sons or his daughters.

This reminds me of a situation my relatives had a couple years back. They had regular mixed chickens. Just your basic laying chickens. They hadn't seen any purebred genetics in a long time. Just black, brown and white chickens. One day my cousin got a lot of barred laying hens. I'm not sure what the breed was, but they're called "dominant" chickens. They're a specific mix kind of like EE. (At least that's what I think. I don't know much about them). A couple days after my cousin brought home her chickens a predator got in and killed most of the flock. Around 10 survived and she gave them to our family with the "basic" chickens. I never quite thought of it, but I guess they first passed on the barring to their sons and then their sons passed it on to everyone else. Nowadays they still have barred hens in the flock. Some are old, some are younger. They have 1 or 2 barred roosters as well. The oldest barred rooster is around 4 years old.

I think it's so interesting how the barred gene took over their little flock. Now they mostly have barred, white and black hens with an occasional partridge. No more brown hens tho (or maybe like 1 brown one).

 

[Cloverr39]

This reminds me of a situation my relatives had a couple years back. They had regular mixed chickens. Just your basic laying chickens. They hadn't seen any purebred genetics in a long time. Just black, brown and white chickens. One day my cousin got a lot of barred laying hens. I'm not sure what the breed was, but they're called "dominant" chickens. They're a specific mix kind of like EE. (At least that's what I think. I don't know much about them). A couple days after my cousin brought home her chickens a predator got in and killed most of the flock. Around 10 survived and she gave them to our family with the "basic" chickens. I never quite thought of it, but I guess they first passed on the barring to their sons and then their sons passed it on to everyone else. Nowadays they still have barred hens in the flock. Some are old, some are younger. They have 1 or 2 barred roosters as well. The oldest barred rooster is around 4 years old.

I think it's so interesting how the barred gene took over their little flock. Now they mostly have barred, white and black hens with an occasional partridge. No more brown hens tho (or maybe like 1 brown one).

This is what one of the first generations looked like (he probably hatched around 2018):

This is a couple more generations later:

Most hens nowadays are dark like this cockerel in the last photo. Sadly no new offspring this year. The current hens won't go broody anymore and the 1 hen that went broody lost all her chicks.

 

[Clodill4rel]

Our hen kiwi just went Brody n our 4 chicks are set to hatch in 3 days. We had success last time placing the newly hatched chicks under her! Prob is do hens know how long they have been sitting ? She’s only been sitting on three eggs for two days….. wondering if this time things will work like the last…. Since none of kiwis chicks will be hatching I may just take them n give her the chicks…. Any thoughts ? She’s an amazing mother and super friendly with us after babies hatch.

 

[Clodill4rel]

Hey everyone we had two hatch this morning ! They are both kiwis babies with flu by night I posted their pictures earlier in the thread. They came out looking completely different now I am thinking maybe I was wrong with the father …. But kiwi had been by her self and with him only unless someone stopped in when I didn’t notice ! Here take a look just born today ! Both are suppose to be mixes. I’ll get more pics as the day progresses we are still waiting on atleast one more but it’s a pure silky….

 

[Clodill4rel]

Here are our two newbies pineapple (light one) and blueberry

 

[Clodill4rel]

So we have two more they were shipped silky eggs out of 22 and got two to lockdown from being so badly saddled air cells were everywhere! I am actually concerned for these two can anyone help me ? It’s been 29 hrs since one of them only externally pip. Pic below …. I just put coconut oil on it… it hasn’t made progress since yest. And the other one has internally pip it’s cheeping as of this morning and I’m just waiting that one out to see if it can externally pip…But I think both are poorly positioned ! As you can see this one has pip at wrong end.

 

[Stellasmomma]

This is Albert he hatched from some fertile silkie eggs I purchased all the other chicks were indeed pure silkies all were black except one that was pure white and then surprise!! This guy! does anyone know what he might be mixed with? He is so beautiful and a really nice guy and I have to say with my limited experience with Roo's this guy actually protects the flock!! He warns of predators very well and even though he only currently has one hen he is very respectful of her. My goal in hatching the eggs was to get more hens and I ended up with a bunch of Roo's he is the only one I kept. I really never wanted Roosters but he's such a good guy

 

[Cloverr39]

Can anyone help me guess if these 2 will be crested or bearded? 1st is older bantam brahma × silkie mix named Oakley (6 days old today) and the 2nd is the younger chick of the same parents (1 day old today) both are full siblings.

First 2 pics are of the older chick.
The next 3 are of the younger chick.
Last one is older chick.

My guess is that older chick will have a small crest and possibly a very small beard and the younger chick will have a bigger beard and crest. I know it's still too early and we don't know if it will stick around as they get their feathers, but just game a guess.

It also sort of looks like they might have some sort of lacing on their feathers.

I thought I would do an update on my silkie/brahma girls. I hatched 3 of them in total. All were crested, one was bearded. I kept the first to hatch (Oakley). She's now around 5 months old. She's a very pretty pullet. The one I kept is in the 1st photo.

 

[Clodill4rel]

I have one coming in 10 days that is this mix here the black ones …. Excuse sugar nice she got into the coop paint ! And one other chick with fly by night and sprinkles. The white silky n cream blue white colored roo one…..

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I have two incubating I will be able to show pics when they are born! they go on lock down tomorrow ; ) they are with our favorite silky hen kiwi and a Roo that was dropped off pics below should be interesting this mix…. We did two ; ) the Roo has blue ears …. Possible moonbeam mix or something. He’s been great tho no idea where he came from…..

The rooster looks like he could be a fibro Easter egger of some kind. The hen pictured looks like she’s already a Silkie mix.