Christie, you should add it as your website, so it'll show under your display picture every time you post.
Silkie thread!
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Thats an awesome Idea
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Thats an awesome Idea
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You can get most anything with the white hen as white may hide lots of colors. So much depends on the color genes your silkies have in their back grounds. The chicken color calculator says you will get half blue and half black with the buff and blue cross. There are some real experts on this thread. Hopefully they will see your question!
Well white hen came from a breeder who only bred and raised white for over 5 years so she is pure white then? white going back for at leased 5 years. Well I will wait and see I guess. Im hoping for some interesting colors so DH has to let me keep em. If they end up black they are going a CL as I have 3 black I am already trying to rehome to make room for other colors......
You all know chicken math.....
DH said 2-3 then I brought home 8 (had to raise em to get the best ones
)
then I found my 1st silkie... Got rid of all but 3 egg layers
Bought blue silkie hen
Bought new bigger coop on CL !!!
DH said 7 chickens total and NO MORE
found Ideal Poultry
Ordered 14 silkie chicks n 2 layers (had to raise em to pick out our favorite ones)
traded 6 silkie chicks for a laying white silkie hen.
sold a couple more silkiie chicks
Currently:
5 layers (3 Barred Rock and 2LF Light Brahma)
9 silkies (1 blue, 3 dark blue/black, 1 white, 3 splash, 1 buff roo)
3 eggs under broody blue
........
Waiting for chick season to start cause I have my eyes on some colors.......
DH said NO MORE.... Yet I got him to start working on a small coop ("to sell"
) 4'x4'x5'
I have plans for a breeding pen of project color silkies for next summer. 1 roo 2-3 hens. So I need to decide asap as I will need to get chicks goin soon so they could be laying by summer. And I can be on my way with eggs by the end of summer.
Thinkin paint roo over buff hens? or Pure White roo over buff? or buff roo over lav/self blue hens?
Any color mixing ideas you had but weren't able to try?
You can get most anything with the white hen as white may hide lots of colors. So much depends on the color genes your silkies have in their back grounds. The chicken color calculator says you will get half blue and half black with the buff and blue cross. There are some real experts on this thread. Hopefully they will see your question!
Well white hen came from a breeder who only bred and raised white for over 5 years so she is pure white then? white going back for at leased 5 years. Well I will wait and see I guess. Im hoping for some interesting colors so DH has to let me keep em. If they end up black they are going a CL as I have 3 black I am already trying to rehome to make room for other colors......
You all know chicken math.....
DH said 2-3 then I brought home 8 (had to raise em to get the best ones
then I found my 1st silkie... Got rid of all but 3 egg layers
Bought blue silkie hen
Bought new bigger coop on CL !!!
DH said 7 chickens total and NO MORE
found Ideal Poultry
Ordered 14 silkie chicks n 2 layers (had to raise em to pick out our favorite ones)
traded 6 silkie chicks for a laying white silkie hen.
sold a couple more silkiie chicks
Currently:
5 layers (3 Barred Rock and 2LF Light Brahma)
9 silkies (1 blue, 3 dark blue/black, 1 white, 3 splash, 1 buff roo)
3 eggs under broody blue
........
DH said NO MORE.... Yet I got him to start working on a small coop ("to sell"
I have plans for a breeding pen of project color silkies for next summer. 1 roo 2-3 hens. So I need to decide asap as I will need to get chicks goin soon so they could be laying by summer. And I can be on my way with eggs by the end of summer.
Thinkin paint roo over buff hens? or Pure White roo over buff? or buff roo over lav/self blue hens?
Any color mixing ideas you had but weren't able to try?
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Really pretty!!! Would love to see more photos!
thank you
I'll take some tomorrow
promise
YAY I loveeee looking at porcelians they have such awesome colourings
Really pretty!!! Would love to see more photos!
thank you
YAY I loveeee looking at porcelians they have such awesome colourings
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You can get most anything with the white hen as white may hide lots of colors. So much depends on the color genes your silkies have in their back grounds. The chicken color calculator says you will get half blue and half black with the buff and blue cross. There are some real experts on this thread. Hopefully they will see your question!
First, look to type. It really depends on hte base colour of your birds as to what you will get. George got some AWESOME buffs and blues out of a blueXbuff cross. He also got some that were very *unusually* coloured mixes of buff & blue.
Crossing to white is always a gamble at best. I recently sold three differently coloured pullets to go with a white rooster, with hopes that at least one of the three varieties would produce something worth keeping. I offered to buy back any of the birds: grey, partridge and black. And asked for feedback.
You can get most anything with the white hen as white may hide lots of colors. So much depends on the color genes your silkies have in their back grounds. The chicken color calculator says you will get half blue and half black with the buff and blue cross. There are some real experts on this thread. Hopefully they will see your question!
First, look to type. It really depends on hte base colour of your birds as to what you will get. George got some AWESOME buffs and blues out of a blueXbuff cross. He also got some that were very *unusually* coloured mixes of buff & blue.
Crossing to white is always a gamble at best. I recently sold three differently coloured pullets to go with a white rooster, with hopes that at least one of the three varieties would produce something worth keeping. I offered to buy back any of the birds: grey, partridge and black. And asked for feedback.
my silkie had stuff around its nostrils it felt like tissue plzz help
and then later to come out and find that its sick looking and the tissue was gone and there was blood there so brought it into the house and saw that one eye was completely closed and the other almost all the way and something smelt kinda rotten like maybe dead tissue or something beats me
plzz do all u can to help me figure this out
and then later to come out and find that its sick looking and the tissue was gone and there was blood there so brought it into the house and saw that one eye was completely closed and the other almost all the way and something smelt kinda rotten like maybe dead tissue or something beats me
plzz do all u can to help me figure this out
sager
silkies :
my silkie had stuff around its nostrils it felt like tissue plzz help
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG448.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG450.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG452.jpg
and then later to come out and find that its sick looking and the tissue was gone and there was blood there so brought it into the house and saw that one eye was completely closed and the other almost all the way and something smelt kinda rotten like maybe dead tissue or something beats me
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG459.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG454.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG455.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG457.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG458.jpg
plzz do all u can to help me figure this out
If atg all possible, take him to the vet; if you can't do that put him on denagard or tylan.
silkies :my silkie had stuff around its nostrils it felt like tissue plzz help
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG448.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG450.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG452.jpg
and then later to come out and find that its sick looking and the tissue was gone and there was blood there so brought it into the house and saw that one eye was completely closed and the other almost all the way and something smelt kinda rotten like maybe dead tissue or something beats me
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG459.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG454.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG455.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG457.jpg
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n550/chickenloverzack/IMG458.jpg
plzz do all u can to help me figure this out
If atg all possible, take him to the vet; if you can't do that put him on denagard or tylan.
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If atg all possible, take him to the vet; if you can't do that put him on denagard or tylan.
whats atg and other ppl are saying coryza i hope not cause i heard its a deadly disease
If atg all possible, take him to the vet; if you can't do that put him on denagard or tylan.
whats atg and other ppl are saying coryza i hope not cause i heard its a deadly disease
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sagersilkies :
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If atg all possible, take him to the vet; if you can't do that put him on denagard or tylan.
whats atg and other ppl are saying coryza i hope not cause i heard its a deadly disease
silkies :Quote:
If atg all possible, take him to the vet; if you can't do that put him on denagard or tylan.
whats atg and other ppl are saying coryza i hope not cause i heard its a deadly disease
at not atg; it was a typo
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