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Hawkeye95 said:
Okay, I'm back from the ASBC E. Nationals. We did pretty good-- I didn't expect to win anything at all, so we're really happy with our placings. I met up with several other silkie ladies-- Bren from Birds of Paradise, Chris from Touchwood Silkies and several other ladies and of course, our Junior exhibitors! (my son included).

Blue Partridge, BV (Open) 2nd Place, Splash Pullet (my son-Juniors) 3rd Place, Splash Pullet (my son-Juniors)
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1st Place, Splash Cockerel (my son) my son-- Intermediate Showmanship
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Me. (Open) 2nd Place, Intermediate Showmanship
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Oh-- Open Show: and I forgot to mention that my cockerels in Blue-- also placed 4th and 5th out of a large class.
I had a Splash pullet that placed 1st in her class as well.
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How exciting!! What a great job with your beautiful birds - all of your hard work certainly paid off! Are you feeling better since your accident? Will you have some time to take it easy now?
 
tiki244 said:
Good info I was under the false assumption that I could tell this trait earlier and I think I wrote about it on the other silkies thread. I should keep my mouth shut and pay attention to all the excellent information on here by people that are . I am going to look at your pictures of Phyllis too. Thanx
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I would have thought you could tell earlier as well Tiki.. That is until I waited and was very happy with the ending outcome. She is not missing a single feather in her wings, and holds them nice and tight :D We just got back from Canadian Nationals (didn't show any birds), and I was shocked that our provincial show had many more silkies than this national.. Not a single partridge. There was only one AOV colour (blue cream I think) - If anyone here showed those two - I liked them best ;) - There were nice splashes, and of course the whites.. I left before judging unfortunately.. There were also 'blacks' that looked very much like Hawkeye's dark blues. Only 1 blue was shown besides the two black I believe.. If I missed colours - correct me.. All I saw was BBS, White and those 2 AOV colours. :/
 
aoxa said:
Interesting.. My silkies at 4 weeks are not feathered out enough to leave them without a heat lamp. In the summer I would stop at 4 weeks, but this time of year it is quite chilly..
My broody chicks are 7 weeks old and are still piling under mom.. There are 6 of them, and it's getting to be a tight squeeze.
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I have them in my house so it doesn't get that cold.
 
Hawkeye95 said:
Okay, I'm back from the ASBC E. Nationals. We did pretty good-- I didn't expect to win anything at all, so we're really happy with our placings. I met up with several other silkie ladies-- Bren from Birds of Paradise, Chris from Touchwood Silkies and several other ladies and of course, our Junior exhibitors! (my son included).

Blue Partridge, BV (Open) 2nd Place, Splash Pullet (my son-Juniors) 3rd Place, Splash Pullet (my son-Juniors)
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1st Place, Splash Cockerel (my son) my son-- Intermediate Showmanship
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Me. (Open) 2nd Place, Intermediate Showmanship
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Oh-- Open Show: and I forgot to mention that my cockerels in Blue-- also placed 4th and 5th out of a large class.
I had a Splash pullet that placed 1st in her class as well.
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Can't imagine how excited I would be!! They are all so gorgeous!!
 
I am so frustrated with one of my hens. I have a 2 yr old black hen and I am noticing that the roosters aren't interested in breeding with her. They just ignore her. Why is this? They don't have any issues with the other hens...
 

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