Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[peepblessed]

The one on my avy is a VERY unhappy leghorn barred rock cross that fell in her water dish.

I have no idea how she managed to do that, since her water dish is a pickle lid.

I'll get better pics tomorrow. It was snowing all day and was freezing so I let them stay in the garage... Ok well on the couch inside! I just love her though, she is so sweet. She loves to sit with my husband. I get the other two!

Cute!!

k thanx so how much would 3 boxes shipping and postage be?

I sent you a PM.

hey yall i would like to know what yall feed yalls silkies and any extra supplements and what things have u avoided/ added to it to help or prevent diseases or disorders specific to silkies thanx!!!

I supplement with free choice alfalfa, sunflower seeds, flax seed, with boiled eggs, fruit and veges on occasion. I just started a meal worm farm (very easy by the way). I've have had chickens on my ranch for over 20 years with hundreds of wild birds because we have many decorative ponds, and I have never had any disease or even colds. I really have no idea why. Maybe I have the perfect elevation (3000 ft) or maybe the low humidity or it could all hit me tomorrow. I don't buy live birds and I don't show. My buyers show their birds and that is good enough for me. I get to live vicariously through them as I did this weekend. Two pullets I raised, splash and blue got BV. (I confess I did not breed one of them. It was from a Catdance egg. )

I'm hoping for pictures soon....

I am not sure of the age.....but definitely a girl. Just unsure of her color.

As far as my partridge chicks showing up in the blue pen, I am thinking that it is my rooster. He is blue...and I am thinking, with a hidden partridge gene. My last 4 hatches have produced 4 chicks(I have 2 small incubators) per hatch and at least 1 chick per hatch has been a partridge. In addition to that, at least one per hatch has developed crossbeak. I was able to collect eggs from 2 hens that I know are blue, produce blue chicks, and have not ever produced cross beak before. I was told by a local silkie breeder that the fact that partridge coloring and crossbeak are present so frequently and with a small number of chicks, I should set that rooster aside. Out of 16 chicks, 4 have been partridge, and 4 have developed crossbeak. Those statistics are a little startling. Not happy. I can live with the fact that the rooster throws partridge colored chicks, but the crossbeak is just unacceptable, not to mention heartbreaking.

So very sorry you are dealing with this issue but so glad you have figured it out!

 

[Sanna]

I kept having trouble with my silkies doing the "sneezing" thing for a couple months. I tried Ozine and did not have good results so I went ahead with Duracyn-10 for 7 days and it cleared up completely. I hated using antibiotics but only do as a last resort. Our weather has been up and down cold then hot then cold then hot...I am surprised I have not had any more problems that I have considering.

What is the dosage for Duracyn-10?

 

[Adoravachick]

So very sorry you are dealing with this issue but so glad you have figured it out!

Thanks for the support Peep! It's been a very valuable learning experience. That is what I love about these little critters, there is always something new to learn, and it never gets old.

We are transitioning to introduce a Stunning Splash roo to the Splash hens, I am very much looking forward to hatching chicks from them.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

For all my BYC peeps, this is chicksnherps. My laptop was stolen and I am unable to retrieve my old password... SO! This is me and this will most likely be the name of my farm

 

[peepblessed]

For all my BYC peeps, this is chicksnherps. My laptop was stolen and I am unable to retrieve my old password... SO! This is me and this will most likely be the name of my farm

Awwww! So sorry about your laptop!!!

 

[DragonRider]

I'd hate to see this thread die...I think critiques would be good. Feel free to critique away. This is a five month-old pullet.

That is possibly the most adorable thing I have ever seen in my life! I want him! LOL!

 

[thedragonlady]

That is possibly the most adorable thing I have ever seen in my life! I want him! LOL!

Definately a HER !

 

[Sally8]

These are adorable. I have Silkies hatching as we speak. They came from the very first eggs I ever ordered through the mail. I hope at least 3 make it out of 7. I read how fragile they are to hatch.

 

[chisNchickens]

That is possibly the most adorable thing I have ever seen in my life! I want him! LOL!

Thank you! That is my girl "Betty White". She produced two gorgeous pullets for me last fall.

 

[delisha]

Betty is a beautiful girl