Silkie thread!

[chicknfun]

Sigh..my Puffle...the "male" silkie...right???

is he/she going to get any bigger??? he's really small..how big do silkies get anyhow??

no red on the comb at ALL...about 4 monbths

Your Puffle is too cute! I have a white silkie that looks nearly exactly like this, and very small. At around 4 months, he is no bigger than my golden sebright of the same age. Mine is a feed store find. My autistic daughter named him Winter when we got him. We live in Florida and she has never seen snow, but she said he looks like snow in winter.... lol.
ETA: I would say male

 

[henney penny]

New baby silkies with daddy and auntie looking on

 

[peepblessed]

New baby silkies with daddy and auntie looking on

Sweet photo!! Proud looking dad!

 

[TheChicknGarden]

Eek my house is filled with little peeping got my big girl 2 show girls for her bday! They are super cute!!

Picture please

Of course, i'll try to post later today.... Theybare just sooooo cute!!

 

[TheChicknGarden]

*are

 

[3ChickensinNC]

lol Theres already a big line for his offspring/eggs. He has JUST started to act like a mature boy, started seeing him grabbing the girls and he's starting to attempt to crow, took him long enough he's atleast 8 months old now.

Sounds like my DH when he was in his 20's. He said he was scared of the girls....lol.

 

[Debbi]

Sigh..my Puffle...the "male" silkie...right???

is he/she going to get any bigger??? he's really small..how big do silkies get anyhow??

no red on the comb at ALL...about 4 monbths

Looks like a cockerel to me. Silkies don't get very big, a roo weighs, what 34 or 32 oz.?? As for the red comb, they are NOT supposed to have red combs! Black or dark mulberry.

 

[Debbi]

As you know, Debbi, I only have 1 white Silkie so I obviously don't have scads of experience. I'm only going by what I've read. Sounds like yours may not be leakage. This might be a dumb question, but have you tried bathing the birds in question with a whitening (bluing) shampoo? Any chance the yellow can be washed out? I know old white hair gets a yellowish tinge that can be blued away .....

Nope, haven't had that pleasure yet!

It is most likely the corn is still in the feathers. The thing that gets me is why it is only in the hackles? Are the hackle feathers that much lighter that they would pick up the color easier? It is not a dull yellow like I would expect from sun either, it is very shiney. They aren't going to any shows in my near future, so I'll just watch it and see where it goes, especially after the adult molt.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Debbi is on "dialup" so it literally takes her DAYS to upload one photo so I'm sure she's cursing us both now!!!

 

[Debbi]

I hope we get a photo but I am about sure this light yellowish shine on a complete white Silkie (which is most probably a recessive white c/c) is caused by carotene in the food or by sunlight.
This shine go away with the next molting but will come back when you keep giving food containing carotene or exposure of the bird to sunlight.
What Sigrid write about yellowish shine is on the pluff of young chicks (s+ (gold) = yellowish pluff and S (Silver) = grayish pluff).

I tried to get another picture of it, but it doesn't seem to come through. Either the light is too bright, or if they are in the shade it is not bright enough. I feel you are probably correct it is the feeding of the scratch. It really looks quite pretty in contrast with the white though, wish there was a way for me to breed it into the hackles, wings, and saddle feathers, and maybe add a tad more depth of color. Several of the new chicks in this pen are white, so we'll see if it shows up on any of them.