Silkie thread!

[stoopid]

 

[mama2my4]

Bucket of silkie babies from last year

so sweet!!!

 

[peepblessed]

Bucket of silkie babies from last year

Really cute photo!!

 

[Hawkeye95]

Zack and Barn Goddess-- are you all unable to import or order chicks/eggs from the USA to use in your breeding? I don't know what the laws are. It seems sad that it's so difficult to get nice birds. Very interesting about your standards being the same, just with a different looking type of bird.

Now that I'm having fertile eggs, I'm having incubator troubles. I'm using the Brinsea Oct and my real troubles lie in the fact that I think my digital therm/hygro is wrong. I'm thinking my therm is off by 2 degrees! I already salt tested my hygro and it's off by 9%. Where oh where do you get decent equipment that doesn't cost the earth??

 

[3LilBirds]

I have a question. Are Silkie Roo Chicks noticeably different from Pullets when young? Only reason I ask if my Frizzle Cochin (Mumble who I'm pretty sure is a pullet) is cuddly and Nugget my Silkie is kinda a spaz. LOL We've taught them all to walk up on to our hands instead of just grabbing them out of the brooder. Mumble and Cinnamon are fine about it but Nugget gets on your hand and even if I put my other hand for support on his/her chest or even the rear to lift Nugget out off the brooder he/she kinda freaks out and starts flapping and screaming. Once you get Nugget out and calm him/her down Nugget really only like to be held against my chest. I know all chickens like children are different but Nugget just seems to not be very sure of anything. They are 5 weeks old now. I've had Nugget since about 2 days old. I guess I'm just wondering if that's typical of age, sex or if there is something else I could be trying different. Thanks!

 

[Hawkeye95]

I have a question. Are Silkie Roo Chicks noticeably different from Pullets when young? Only reason I ask if my Frizzle Cochin (Mumble who I'm pretty sure is a pullet) is cuddly and Nugget my Silkie is kinda a spaz. LOL We've taught them all to walk up on to our hands instead of just grabbing them out of the brooder. Mumble and Cinnamon are fine about it but Nugget gets on your hand and even if I put my other hand for support on his/her chest or even the rear to lift Nugget out off the brooder he/she kinda freaks out and starts flapping and screaming. Once you get Nugget out and calm him/her down Nugget really only like to be held against my chest. I know all chickens like children are different but Nugget just seems to not be very sure of anything. They are 5 weeks old now. I've had Nugget since about 2 days old. I guess I'm just wondering if that's typical of age, sex or if there is something else I could be trying different. Thanks!

I don't have a lot to work with here-- I only have 5 silkies at this point! (more in the incubator..) My girls are more flappy than my boys. All 3 of my boys are super cuddly and sweet. I could carry any of them around for a long period of time and they just relax. My hens are more screechy and flappy... but hey, it could totally be personality! Or I could have some really backward birds. NO idea! But I will say that at 5 weeks-- as far as I know, there is no way to tell what you've got! I have a hen that even at 6 months-- I could not tell it was a girl! I thought she was a cockerel for sure because her crest was coming in all crazy and had what I thought were streamers. Once all the pin feathers came in, she really poufed out and I discovered He was a She at 7 months of age when SHE finally laid an egg! LOL The other girl I have-- she was super easy to tell right off. She just didn't grow in like that.

 

[sager:)silkies]

Zack and Barn Goddess-- are you all unable to import or order chicks/eggs from the USA to use in your breeding? I don't know what the laws are. It seems sad that it's so difficult to get nice birds. Very interesting about your standards being the same, just with a different looking type of bird.

i beliave u can get eggs from the states but u have to drive over and get them and sneak them back im preety sure u cant get chicks unless u have all this documentiaion to do so and u need to find a breeder in the states that is willing to do so

 

[County Boy]

My Fav odd silkie roo I lost him but I got his son & he looks just like him

 

[Sharksandguitars]

is that partridge?

 

[sager:)silkies]

is that partridge?

to my eyes it looks like a black silkie just with leakage