Silkie thread!

[Inkheart]

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What age are the chicks? I wouldnt advise giving them mealworms at a young age.

Can young chicks not "process" mealworms very well?

 

[muddyhorse]

I wish I could help you Nekhebet, but my cuckoos have stopped laying

I have eggs from the white pen, but no cuckoo eggs.

 

[Nekhebet]

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Aww, it's the thought that counts! White silkies look like giant cotton balls

 

[Tanichca]

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Aww, it's the thought that counts! White silkies look like giant cotton balls

I know! Im going to hatch a couple, i hope, within a few weeks! bought the eggs this morning.

 

[Nekhebet]

Well, partridge chick finally gave up the battle (?) this morning. I did everything I could for it, I even put yogurt on its beak a couple of times, put the food UNDER the lamp, tried mini mealworms....and that's a trick that has had every chicken chick in fair health eating. I had gatorade in the water...not sure what else I could have done and kind of confused.

The GOOD news is, I recandled the questionable silkie egg in the bator and saw veins. Yay! I'm determined to get a good hatch this time.

Here's the cuckoo chick.

I've noticed he looks a lot like my black serama chick, and that cuckoo can breed with black. So is this guy black, or is he cuckoo? /confused

 

[muddyhorse]

you cross cuckoo to black to increase the melanizers and darken the skin and comb. so it could be black. If you fan the wings you should see the cuckoo pattern by the time it is a week to 10 days old

 

[roocrazy]

my silkies would look so pitiful compared to all your peoples birds just can never find show pontential started birds in my area
here are my old ones that i wish i still had but are dead due to a hawk:

this one is negative, just a note

 

[TheFeatheredTempest]

Nekhebet - your chick looks exactly, absolutely identical, to one of my cuckoo silkie chicks when it hatched. I have three that are a few weeks old now and you can really see the cuckoo pattern on them. I didn't notice, where did your eggs? Mine were purchased on ebay.

 

[Nekhebet]

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I bought mine from Jenlynn4 (sp?). She doesn't live too far from me, so I just picked them up. She had some auctions going recently too, but mostly partridge. I think I really like the cuckoo pattern

SO I'm really glad I have people confirming it's cuckoo-ness

 

[Tanichca]

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I bought mine from Jenlynn4 (sp?). She doesn't live too far from me, so I just picked them up. She had some auctions going recently too, but mostly partridge. I think I really like the cuckoo pattern

SO I'm really glad I have people confirming it's cuckoo-ness

Now im jealous.... i LOVE cuckoo.

You are the luckiest person alive!