Silkie thread!

[shay20]

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It is hard to tell on silkies that young, but my first thought when i look at that one is pullet.
Does taht one tend to hide under the others? Or do others hide under that one?

 

[mema2003]

Someone told me that I could have other colors in with my whites. I have a black hen/rooster(don't know which yet) and I have a red silkie roo that I will be putting back in the run so that he won't be ny himself. But I had too remove his for a couple of days because he was so mean too my black one. This person told me if you breed black silkie too white silkie, you would get mostly white chicks. Is this not the case?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Definitely not the case. Chances of getting white chicks when a parent is not white are at best 50/50. And that is only if the non-white is split (has one copy) for white.If not split, then none of the chicks will be white. It is pretty universally agreed that if you want to breed to the standard, you do not mix whites and non-whites unless you have some pretty good knowledge of the genes carried by an individual white.

For instance, if you breed a two correctly coloured birds of the same variety together and get a white chick, you learn that each of the parents is split to white, and you knwo from the parents what pattern and colour genes that specific white carries. You can reliably breed it to that variety, knowing that the offpsring will be split to white, but will also inherit the colour and pattern genes of the variety. A different white bird will not have this specific set of genes.

 

[bacres]

It tends to be shy and hid unde the others I think. Does this mean she's a pullet.

 

[brendapa]

The black one does look like a pullet. Congrats!
Brenda

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I'll be posting some pictures tomorrow! I'm getting some white & Buff Silkies chicks from a breeder! Can't wait to get them! I'm suppost to get 4 but ... you never know I may come home with ... all of them! LOL

 

[bacres]

Yay pullet! Keep all your fingers crossed!

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

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I refuse to count--then I would have to acknowledge my addiction

Me too!!!
I tell ya what I have in the bators....
Silkies 3 bators full

And more eggs due today..I will be waiting by the front door my mailman knows they are coming he brings them to me first thing in the am before his route..How GREAT is he

It helps he is my neighbor

 

[thechickonthehill]

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It is hard to tell on silkies that young, but my first thought when i look at that one is pullet.
Does taht one tend to hide under the others? Or do others hide under that one?

Why do you ask about it hiding under the others? The reason I want to know is that I have a 7 week old Silkie whose favorite place seems to be on the bottom of the pile. She(?) is the only Silkie and is with six Faverolles chicks of the same age. She always tries to crawl up under the others and they are perfectly happy to use her as a pillow!

 

[shay20]

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It is hard to tell on silkies that young, but my first thought when i look at that one is pullet.
Does taht one tend to hide under the others? Or do others hide under that one?

Why do you ask about it hiding under the others? The reason I want to know is that I have a 7 week old Silkie whose favorite place seems to be on the bottom of the pile. She(?) is the only Silkie and is with six Faverolles chicks of the same age. She always tries to crawl up under the others and they are perfectly happy to use her as a pillow!

I ask becouse yes i noticed with mine even as young that the females tend to hide under the males.