Silkie thread!

[emvickrey]

I'm no expert either but I think both feet should look like the one showing on the right side. Which would be the chickens left foot. The 4th and 5th toes are suppose to have a good V from my understanding. Don't hold me to it but thats is what I understand it to be. I want to show a few of mine so I need to know for sure about the feet.

 

[Tanichca]

LOCKDOWN

 

[emvickrey]

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I usually but my eggs in lock down the night before they are due for it because I always have early birds. Well........ with having 3 ranbuncious boys in the house I forgot till just a few minutes ago and went to look and have about 8 pipped eggs that where in the turner. We quickly got all 14 eggs moved to the hatcher. That was a close one.

I have 3 eggs from some swap eggs that made it to lock down and the rest are from my flock.

 

[Tanichca]

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I usually but my eggs in lock down the night before they are due for it because I always have early birds. Well........ with having 3 ranbuncious boys in the house I forgot till just a few minutes ago and went to look and have about 8 pipped eggs that where in the turner. We quickly got all 14 eggs moved to the hatcher. That was a close one.

I have 3 eggs from some swap eggs that made it to lock down and the rest are from my flock.

i did put them in lockdown a bit early. I put the eggs in the bator late Wednesday night, the day before thanksgiving. I put them into lockdown last night around 10. That makes it day... 18.5 today. My temps have been a little high throughout the incubation, so im just being careful. *Hopefully* ill get at least a pip when im gone tomorrow (Sunday services are at 8:30 am ((

)) so we have to leave from our house at 7:30, and then im going to a Christmas party at my grandmas house until around 2:00 pm, and then an hour home)
Long day ahead. I just hope my sprained ankle doesnt break or anything from the use its going to be getting

 

[featherbaby]

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I would not buy hatchery silkies. When you do start raising nicer ones, the lesser quality ones will be breeding too and will dilute your good stock unless you keep them permanently separated. I would recommend you find a local silkie breeder or find a nearby chicken swap event and get better ones to start with (at least Breeder quality if not show quality potentials). Buying them this way is more economical than you might think. I have paid as little as $3 a chick for good breeder quality silkies at the swaps. I have bought show quality young (unsexed) silkies for $10-25. You will have the same investment of time, space and feed in poor ones or good ones. Both will go broody when they are old enough. The difference is, if you start with good ones, you reproduce good ones quicker and save a lot of time improving your breeding stock. You don't have to get $100 Show Quality adults to start off.....mine were much less, yet I have some very nice show quality silkies. It's all about finding good breeders who sell young ones for less money and teach you how to choose good stock to begin with.

 

[featherbaby]

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Her little feet look fine to me. You want to see each toe spaced apart and distinctly separate from the others, not webbed together. Unfortunately silkies are very hard to sex until they are 7-12 months old. Some will ''declare" their sex a little early by crowing but it's rare. The rule is, you won't know for sure until it either crows or lays an egg. The good news is, they are sweet natured babies that don't mind handling and are good broody mothers to any egg you put under them. I hope yours is a pullet, but if not he will still be sweet and cute. My roo doesn't crow very loud and only a few minutes each morning. I live where crowing is a no-no, but he's so quiet I'm not going to sell him. Besides the fact that he's my sweetest baby. He wants to get up in my arms every time I go out to see them. The hens are sweet, but he is "personality plus".

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

I'm sooooo excited

just got a phone call from my friend at Nationals in Shawnee, and one of the Christmas presents I bought myself today

lavender pullet

just won Reserve Variety AND Reserve AOV !!!!

 

[rilly10]

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WOW AWESOME!!!! Congrats!

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

I want to make it clear though~~the pullet was bred and shown by Bren (Bren's Birds of Paradise)...I was just fortunate enough to by her this morning, before she won

 

[roocrazy]

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I would not buy hatchery silkies. When you do start raising nicer ones, the lesser quality ones will be breeding too and will dilute your good stock unless you keep them permanently separated. I would recommend you find a local silkie breeder or find a nearby chicken swap event and get better ones to start with (at least Breeder quality if not show quality potentials). Buying them this way is more economical than you might think. I have paid as little as $3 a chick for good breeder quality silkies at the swaps. I have bought show quality young (unsexed) silkies for $10-25. You will have the same investment of time, space and feed in poor ones or good ones. Both will go broody when they are old enough. The difference is, if you start with good ones, you reproduce good ones quicker and save a lot of time improving your breeding stock. You don't have to get $100 Show Quality adults to start off.....mine were much less, yet I have some very nice show quality silkies. It's all about finding good breeders who sell young ones for less money and teach you how to choose good stock to begin with.

yes i agree. Amy Piehl is only 90 minutes away but were still trying to figure out if a sale is possible because i do not want birds in the house but shed only be able to hatch throughout feb? and its really hard!!!