Silkie Chicken Contest! Ends September 20, 2020 (No Prize.)

[Starburst]

Name: (?)

Gender: Female

Age: 9 weeks

Category: A,C
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Aww! She's adorable!

 

[Starburst]

Name: (?)

Gender: Female

Age: 9 weeks

Category: A,C
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She's so sweet!

 

[Starburst]

Hi, everyone! Friendly reminder that this contest ends in 5 days, so get your entries in before then!

 

[LynnaePB]

Name: TBD
Gender: unknown
Age: 1 day
Category: A

 

[LynnaePB]

Name: TBD
Gender: Unknown (but my guess is on female)
Age: 5 weeks
Category: A, E

Poor baby hated the flash, I tried not to use it from this point on.

 

[LynnaePB]

Name: Isabel
Gender: Female
Age: 5 1/2 months
Category: B, C

 

[LadiesAndJane]

@LynnaePB
Your paint Silkies are just stunning! Looks like your breeding program is going well!

 

[LynnaePB]

@LynnaePB
Your paint Silkies are just stunning! Looks like your breeding program is going well!

Thank you so much, that means a lot!

 

[HappyClucker7]

Name: TBD
Gender: unknown
Age: 1 day
Category: A

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Name: TBD
Gender: Unknown (but my guess is on female)
Age: 5 weeks
Category: A, E

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Poor baby hated the flash, I tried not to use it from this point on.
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Name: Isabel
Gender: Female
Age: 5 1/2 months
Category: B, C

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They are beautiful!

 

[PioneerChicks]

Name (Optional): Mochi
Gender (Optional): Female (Hopefully)
Age: 4 Days
Category: Silkie Chicks
Tell us a bit about this Silkie! (Optional): Mochi is a very friendly White Silkie Bantam chick and loves to run up to me when I come to check on her and the other chicks. Her favorite thing to do is snuggle up in my palm and if it's sunny, she likes to sunbathe on her daily excursions outside. (As I said above, this is of Mochi when she was a chick. Now, she's 20ish weeks and much more different.)

Name: Muffin
Gender: female
Age: about 7-9 months
Category: cutest silkie
About: muffin was are first laying silkie and now lays an egg a day! She is a bit of a ragamuffin but she’s the friendliest little thing! She’s a bearded silkie and sometimes gets bullied by our head hen peanut because she is too nice to fight back.

Names: Jane, Layla and Zelda ( Jane is a boy...)
Age: About 3 months old in this photo
Category: Other
They are in a mixed flock, but definitely do their own thing.

Name: Unamed day old chicks from my last hatch.
Gender: ?
Age: Day old
Category: silkie chicks
my 11-year-old daughter wanted to do “studio portraits“ of the chicks, so here they are!

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Names: Pinky Purple and Sky
Age: about 1 year
Gender: Female
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Name: Lincoln & Penny
Gender: Male & Female
Age: 6 mos old
Category: B, C & D
Tell us a bit about these Silkies!:
Lincoln and Penny are a couple. Lincoln will fight my other 2 roos if they try to pursue her. Although he gets to have all 9 of my girls.
They just had 5 babies.(Next post)

Name: Chocolate Lincoln-Pennies
Gender: Unknown (background color is my guess)
Age: 1 day
Category: A
Tell us a bit about these Silkies!:
My 1st Hatch ever.
So Tiny their scrumptious
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Name: HeiHei & Yzmo
Gender: Males
Age: 6.5 months
Category: C, D & E
Tell us a bit about this Silkie!:
HeiHei is my Pennies protector. He stands watch when she goes in to lay her daily egg. He's a little off when try to eat and mate so I give him extra attention.
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Yzmo is just a wishful roo. He tries to fake that he has food for the ladies but they all know he is fibbing. SMH... Poor guy.
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Lucky(sole survivor of a winter hatch out during hawk season).
Cockerel
9 months
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"A very empathetic cockerel keeping watch on an injured hen in the surgical suite."

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Categories:
D) Most Handsome Silke. (For those roosters in all their fluffy glory)
F) Other. (Before I get carried away and there's a category from A to Z)
I love the iridescent feathering, and his mother was our favored alhpa hen(now expired), but she is still with us in those brown spots. He just has a gentle soul being the only one who survived and was reared by his broody mom so he has no peers. He could be emo.

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this is Ji Ji the splash silkie roo...he's from Asheville NC and now a daddy of a part silkie/Belgian d'uccle and part silkie/white crested blue polish!!
As this is a younger pic, he's now 15 months old and loves the ladies!! probably too much.... he also like to point to the ground and cluck when he wants a treat. A whole lot of personality!

(Ji Ji is in category D)

Name: Smokie
Gender: Roo
Age: Baby 4-5 weeks maybe
Category:Silkie Chicks
Tell us a bit about this Silkie! :
I had to enter this picture of Smokie when he was little because he was so darn cute with his giant cotton ball body and tiny head. He did even out as a adult; his head grew to match his body. But of all my baby silkies he was the cutest one I've had in my opinion.

Name: Minkie
Gender: Hen
Age: Almost 2 years
Category: Cutest
Tell us a bit about this Silkie!:

I think Minkie is the cutest because she is the smallest of the bunch and very gentle. She coos and is rarely bossy. Always following behind doing her cute thing. He little low profile makes it adorable to see her running for treats!

Name: Mrs.Fluffie
Gender: Hen
Age: Almost 2
Category: Funniest
Tell us a bit about this Silkie!:
This is Mrs.Fluffie! She is funny to me because 1st I thought she was a rooster until she laid her first egg. She has a attitude problem like a roo. She charges at you and even tries to flog you if you don't give her the attention or treats she's demanding at the time. Good thing she's little with no spurs or she'd be on the chopping block! She is the boss even over the leghorns and sex-links triple her size. She attempted to beat up my 8 week old cane corso puppy when I introduced it to her. She still argues with the dog even though the dog could swallow her in one gulp now. She chatters all the time like she's a arguing with herself about the food, service and housing. LOL! When she goes broody and I lift her off the nest she makes the loudest thrilling sound you ever heard! When I put her in the cage to break her broody and let her out a few days later...if she's still broody she goes stomping off towards the laying boxes chattering and fussing the whole way like she's cussing me out. Mrs.Fluffie really should have been name Mrs. Sassie! Ha,ha!

Name Stardust
Gender male
Age: 5 months
Category: most handsome silkie
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Name Fluffbunns
Gender female
Age: 5 months
Category: funniest silkie
Tell us a bit about this Silkie! (Optional): this is my sisters silkie, she let me enter her though. My sister told me a story about Fluffbunns today, that kind of explains this picture. Once when we let out the chickens Fluffbunns layer down immediately and all the other chicks jumped around her ( well except Stardust). Oh and this is the mate/lover of my precious boy Stardust.
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Name: (?)

Gender: Female

Age: 9 weeks

Category: A,C
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Name: (?)

Gender: Female

Age: 9 weeks

Category: A,C
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Name: TBD
Gender: unknown
Age: 1 day
Category: A

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Name: TBD
Gender: Unknown (but my guess is on female)
Age: 5 weeks
Category: A, E

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Name: Isabel
Gender: Female
Age: 5 1/2 months
Category: B, C

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@Starburst I collected all the entries, though more could be entered tonight or tomorrow. Other than this, let's continue in the PM.