Silkie thread!

[KMHunter]

Hatch Update!

As of last night I have 3 hatched out, 2 more pipped. Hoping for more pipping and zipping today! Had 10 eggs total go into lockdown so here is hoping and praying for all the babies to hatch.

Have a wonderful day y'all! I am off to work!
Kim

 

[aoxa]

Thought I'd share this picture with you guys..

Had ten silkies hatch from my own flock 2 1/2 weeks ago. This is when they were a few days old. They are all so cute.. I am in love

Gotta love the expression from the middle chick

 

[mama2my4]

Thought I'd share this picture with you guys..

How adorable!!!! My incubator will be here this week and I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

 

[mama2my4]

OK really... No one needs a roo?? UGH!!!!

 

[aoxa]

How adorable!!!! My incubator will be here this week and I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

I was so thrilled! These are my first chicks that I've hatched myself. Every single one of my silkie eggs made it to lockdown and hatched. I was very pleased!

 

[peepblessed]

Indeed it's kind of as painting a wall, but first you must look what kind of wall it is !

Basic color genetics in a nutshell !

Every chicken haven a "ground-color" (= a base pattern), this is one of the 5 possibilities on the E-locus (= were these 5 can be located).
The ground-color can be "pure" (= homozygous).
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]E/E is called Extended Black, ER/ER is called Birchen, eWh/eWh is called wheaten, eb/eb is called Asiatic Partridge, e+/e+[/FONT] is called Bankiva Partridge.
(The ground-color can also be "unpure (= heterozygous), I not go deeper on this to not make things complicater as necessary to understand the BASICS).

This ground-color (the base pattern) is based on gold s+/s+ for males or s+/- for females OR on his mutant Silver S/S for males or S/- for females (this is a sex-linked gene).
Chickens with a ground-color based on gold have a base pattern consisting out of Black and gold, these based on Silver have a base pattern consiting out of Black and Silver (Silver we see as white)

This ground color based on gold or Silver can be affected by different other color-genes.

These other color-genes can be diluters, intensifiers, restrictors, inhibitors. Some of them inhirit in a Dominant way, others in a recessive way, or in an epistatic way, or in an incomplete Dominant way or in a sex-linked way.

So when you look at your chickens color/pattern always start by the ground-color (1 of the 5 "E"-forms) which is based on gold or Silver and ONLY THAN you look at the color-genes that affect this totality "E & S".


PS you could see "E & S" is the wall, the other color-genes affecting it are the different paints

Can you believe that some of this actually made sense to me??

 

[peepblessed]

Thought I'd share this picture with you guys..

Had ten silkies hatch from my own flock 2 1/2 weeks ago. This is when they were a few days old. They are all so cute.. I am in love

Gotta love the expression from the middle chick

These are great pictures of your precious chicks!!

 

[Hawkeye95]

OK really... No one needs a roo?? UGH!!!!

If you figure out a good way to get rid of him, let me know! I'll be getting rid of several cockerels come Fall! LOL!

 

[Whittni]

This is a 4 week old buff baby hatched under a new broody.

 

[mama2my4]

Hey y'all. I am really struggling with coop set-up here. We have one coop that we built, and one that we are using a kennel for (the house should be here tomorrow and we are going to cover it to make it more secure). You can see them both here:



The coop is 10x6 and the kennel is 10x10. There is sand in the bottom of the coop which I am hating because it has been so wet here and the sand sticks to EVERYTHING!

My one rooster has to be separated from the other boys, so he is in the 10x10 and as soon as I get it secure, he will be in there full time with 3 or 4 girls. Right now my other boys (4 roosters, 3 of which are for sale) and my two girls are in the coop, but free-range as much as possible.

I have a bunch of chicks that are getting big and I need somewhere for them to go. Right now they are in the brooder or dog crates at night and in two of these 4x4 "playpens" during the day:



The chicks range in age from about 4-10 weeks.

Wondering if anyone had any suggestions or advice about any of the above? Can you tell me what your set-up is like? Any photos you can share? Do you use x-pens?

TIA!!!