silkie experts! where are you? a few more Q's added, Page 3.

[Year of the Rooster]

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The other night I forgot to bring in the eggs for that day. There were about 3-4 bantam eggs and 4 eggs from my big girls. I also have 4 plastic eggs in there too...

 

[L*A*G*]

wow! this is a good thread here.
r some of u saying that silkie roo's have darker combs?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

No, in general roo combs tend to be lighter. It is more of an issue with certain varieties than with others. It is often an issue with buffs.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

So how do you go breeding for darker combs in the males. Breeding them, then picking the darkest combed male and breeding back to the mother, and so on?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Not necesarily back to his mother. Pick the darked combed males and breed to dark combed females. Don't neglect other traits, though.

 

[L*A*G*]

how do u tell genders apart other then crowing and laying?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Pretty much the same way you do with other breeds. Rooster stance is different than hen stance; hackles, saddles and tails are prominant; combs are larger; boys will dance for the girls, ...

 

[L*A*G*]

ok... is this right for my silkies age? today was warm so i put my silkies out in the chick pen. my auracuana hen was out of her pen so i put her with the silkies (she is sweet and woudn't hurt them)
one of my silkies at 7 weeks old started danceing for her

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i also have lil day old chix. when the brooder was dark and i was letting the light cool of, i let my chix visit the big chix brooder and i was just moving them out with the 2 silkies in it too. i saw my black silkie all poofed up and laying in a corner so i snuck 1 of the chix under it to c what would happen. well what do u know, she buffed all up stretched her wings to cover the chick and spred her legs out for the chick.

i thought it was the sweetest thing. even when i turned the light back on she didn't get up to eat like the others.

 

[chilling in muscadine]

I have a silkie that layed her first two eggs ever last fall and went broody. Now she is just a broody machine.

 

[L*A*G*]

how tall do silkies get from their back? what age do they stop growing?