Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[peepblessed]

They countered $101,000 with 3.5% back, and so we countered $92,000 with 3.5% back.

It's a buyers market. Hope it goes!

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Here are some pictures of my friend's (Pullet?

), how does she look? We plan on showing our chickens together

I just hope she lifts that tail!

 

[Sanna]

Here are some pictures of my friend's (Pullet?

), how does she look? We plan on showing our chickens together

I just hope she lifts that tail!

Wow!! She turned out nice! Keeping my fingers crossed for a she.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Wow!! She turned out nice! Keeping my fingers crossed for a she.

and can you believe she is still COVERED in pins! even her crest!

 

[City farm]

Ye haa!! We have our baby chicks today..
Kent our partarage roo & karen our buff silkie..
Plus some mutts.. Can't wait to see what they will
look like.

 

[City farm]

Oh & all of the other mutts have the extra toe, & mostly black skin..

 

[PaintedFeathers]

question, my friend (Angelobutter) said she has a hovabator I could borrow for my 1 older egg to hatch. Would this work? Has anyone ever used a hovabator?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

question, my friend (Angelobutter) said she has a hovabator I could borrow for my 1 older egg to hatch. Would this work? Has anyone ever used a hovabator?

I've never used one, but most people seem to love theirs.
Here's what I'd do though (I'm not really sure how many eggs you got now). I'd stagger the hatches and use one for the incubating and the other for hatching. Move the eggs over to the second bator on day 18, when you'd up the humidity. Let the older eggs hatch in the extra bator and the newer eggs keep cooking in the original
I'm setting some Silkie eggs in my own incubator today and I'm thinking about starting a thread in the hatch-along section, you should join if I do. We could be hatching buddies

 

[peepblessed]

I've never used one, but most people seem to love theirs.
Here's what I'd do though (I'm not really sure how many eggs you got now). I'd stagger the hatches and use one for the incubating and the other for hatching. Move the eggs over to the second bator on day 18, when you'd up the humidity. Let the older eggs hatch in the extra bator and the newer eggs keep cooking in the original

I'm setting some Silkie eggs in my own incubator today and I'm thinking about starting a thread in the hatch-along section, you should join if I do. We could be hatching buddies

This is what I do also. I use my hovabator for incubation and my home made incubator for hatching. My hovabator is about 25 years old, has a fan and still works perfectly.

 

[heirloomorps]

We have a quad of grey Silkies. They produce nice chicks, but all of our breeders are lacking a really good crest.

If I put our grey roo over our best black hen, would the chicks just come out a darker grey or would they all come out black? Our roo is a medium grey color.

The other option is to get eggs/chicks from a breeder but we have had trouble finding a breeder who does grey.