Silkie thread!

[roocrazy]

wow feather baby your roo is beautiful. Amy those are very cool setups my mom said Maybe so well see how it is in the next couple of months!!!!! and yes its FREZZING here too we have drifts over 8 ft its crazy!!

 

[roocrazy]

i found another oic of my old silkies

Right to left: Blue pullet, White roo, tort roo?, and behind him thw wicked blue roo.


ETA: how do you think the front Roos comb is(Quality Wise)?

 

[roocrazy]

bump

 

[MeettheFlockers]

A few new pics of my silkies:

Lavs

Ginger Reds:

 

[featherbaby]

MTFlockers, What STUNNING lavenders!!!!!! Great job!!!!! How many do you have? Where did you get your initial stock? I want to find a good lavender pair to breed in the spring. I have 2 black/split lavenders, one of which declared his manhood this week and crowed. Sigh! I had hoped they were both pullets. Now I'm just hoping the other one is female.

Do you breed lavender to lavender or do you breed Lavender to black?

 

[muddyhorse]

Sooo Cccccooollldd Ok I'm whining It is 2 with a wind chill of -10. I brought the young ( under 6 month) silkies inside. My basement is peeping. they have lights but..... hubby thinks it is just for today

He just called and his uncle has a 15'x25' shed we can have !!!!

I just have to take it down and move it. a dedicated silkie shack

 

[destiny_56085]

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Up here in MN, basements are pretty much the norm unless you live in a trailer house. We do get flooded every now and then too though. After 3 ultrasounds so far they are predicting a lil girl. Lil bugger always has the legs crossed or is doing somersaults though so they tell me to keep the receipts just in case. I have a few names in mind, but nothing firm yet.

As for the pastels and silkies, I redid my pens to try and not get them this year. Anything that was throwing that off-color went to the Asians last fall. My mom talked me into letting me keep a few of those off-color ones back for a pen of her own. One of the nicer pullets died shortly after the fall shows. So she's left with the 2 other pullets and a cockerel. Unfortunately the cockerel turned out to have some really funky coloration and looks more like a splash with red wings now. He'll probably be a goner soon too. I'll just put those 2 pastel ones in with my buff rooster for a while and test a few eggs out from there.

 

[jen5680]

Destiny, are you the one that a while back had a bunch of your show silkies stolen??
I remember reading about it and wondered if they ever found out who did it???
That was jsut aweful!!!!!!!!

 

[destiny_56085]

I was one of the ones that had birds stolen.... I can make a pretty accurate prediction on who it was, but can't prove anything so it means squat according to the law. Same description of the vehicle that showed up at another notable breeder north of me. Its shown up at both our places since then too but no one got out of the vehicle this time. We are now armed with guard dogs, game cams, motion lights, etc. I almost wish they would so I can get their faces on camera or the dogs would take a chunk out of them. At one of shows in October this year, that same breeder from up north had some of her birds switched on her and stolen too. Whoever it was even went to the trouble of moving her legbands onto the crappier birds they put in the cages. Smooth red combs on the new birds and none of her personalized wingbands....hmmmm. At the MN State show later in October, another notable breeder had a call duck drake stolen as they were cooping in. Funny.... Same person that also shows silkies was just in the aisle with them as they were cooping in and disapeared as the duck did.... A complaint was made to show officials and nothing was done because it 'was just a duck'. The next morning, that breeder swore they saw their drake in one of that person's cages out by their sale birds. Obviously its not over yet....

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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I would love to know who this person is..... the call duck breeders watch out for each others birds, but you can't always see everything. We zip tie our cages, but that won't stop someone.