Silkie thread!

[PoultryPower]

Thanks for the guesses everyone. I'm starting to get kind of worried though, everyone I ask has been saying it looks like a rooster.

 

[peepblessed]

From feathersite, Paint on left, splash on right:


My own birds:
Splash



Paint on left, splash to the right


Paint (the duck in the background is neither paint nor splash

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Wow!!! Fabulous paints!!!

 

[sager:)silkies]

Greys ccome with white i haven't seen any like that but ur the expert and more experinced i have only seen them with like baring but my silkie here is about 4 to 5 weeks old and thanks sonaran u have been lots of help and it is possible that he is a columbian silkie

I've seen a few greys that had tons and tons of white. Also could be coming is an columbian. I will try to find some photos of paint chicks.

 

[mama2my4]

Paint (the duck in the background is neither paint nor splash

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Oh Sonoran... you quack me up!! (sorry...couldn't help myself...)

 

[sager:)silkies]

 Wow!!! Fabulous paints!!!

I agree the paints are lovely i can't wait to get some day and i love the spalshes to

 

[TheChicknGarden]

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eek one would only hope now i just got to figure out a nesting box/basket that my ducks wont take over lol... i've been placing a fake egg in the nesting basket so that when nugget lays she lay in the basket and re-training henny to lay in a basket cause out of no where she started laying in the dirt inbetween the duckhouse and fence

... but i've been finding the boy duck sitting on the fake eggs...such a strange duck, only reason i know he's a boy cause he just got his drake feathers in... and in 6 weeks or so the girl duck will be ready to lay...

not only does he sit on the fake eggs he will gaurd my henny while she lays lol he thinks she's a duck.... or perhaps he thinks he is a chicken lol

 

[TheChicknGarden]

She's giving her inspiration and moral support!

aww i never thought of it like that

 

[TheChicknGarden]

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aww thanks she can be ... but most of the time she's a pain lol jk she was super excited and poud when she saw the egg... she congratulated nugget and thanked her for the egg she laid... she was all mom go get your camera ! so i ran...lol

 

[ChickensXOXO]

I don't have any good new pictures of the silkie chicks, so I tried to get a couple quickies to share.

Here's some of the gang, while I pass out bread. A few of the silkie chicks are with their "mom," the white hen.


Here's some close ups..

 

[peepblessed]

eek one would only hope now i just got to figure out a nesting box/basket that my ducks wont take over lol... i've been placing a fake egg in the nesting basket so that when nugget lays she lay in the basket and re-training henny to lay in a basket cause out of no where she started laying in the dirt inbetween the duckhouse and fence

... but i've been finding the boy duck sitting on the fake eggs...such a strange duck, only reason i know he's a boy cause he just got his drake feathers in... and in 6 weeks or so the girl duck will be ready to lay...

not only does he sit on the fake eggs he will gaurd my henny while she lays lol he thinks she's a duck.... or perhaps he thinks he is a chicken lol

My silkies lay just about anywhere they feel like it! My roo will sit on the eggs if they are laying in the dirt. It's like he's trying to protect them. I was thinking about naming my splash girls salt and pepper cause they are always together and one is darker than the other.