Silkie thread!

[peepblessed]

Cinders, at 3 months it is still hard to determine gender of most silkies. And, with some silkies it's still difficult to tell at 6 months!

One of my 6 month old blue silkies crowed last week and one of them layed a first egg on Thursday. So I thought I KNEW the genders of them both. But, yesterday I watched my blue silkie lay her egg (picture below). It is the third silkie egg we've gotten in 4 days and they are so cute and perfect. OK, ARE YOU READY FOR THIS??????? WHEN THE SILKIE TURNED AROUND, IT WAS THE SILKIE THAT CROWED!!!!!!!!!!

Neither of them have streamers and I've heard of hens crowing, but I'm still in disbelief!

When Bullet (we might have to go back to calling "her" BB) turned around I was like, "Hey, you aren't supposed to be laying eggs!!! Did you two switch places or something?" I'd be thrilled if they are both girls. Even though I got the picture and everything -I still need to make absolutely POSITIVE that it is Bullet/BB by watching BB lay another egg! I'm actually thinking about putting lipstick or something on BB's vent and see if it is transferred to the egg. (I read about that on another thread to determine WHO is laying the mystery egg.)

Here is the picture I took right after the egg popped out of my "cockerel" Bullet!

That's great!!!

 

[Abstrax]

Hello!!! Thought I would post some pics of my keepers from the last hatch. These gorgeous babies are just 3 months old.








And my cute lil 4wk white trio..

 

[CALI CHICK]

They are very cute!

They are showing really good type too.

Hello!!! Thought I would post some pics of my keepers from the last hatch. These gorgeous babies are just 3 months old.








And my cute lil 4wk white trio..

 

[dwegg]

OMG!!!! so cute...all of them...wait...I took some pics today.....let's see...




















Does everyone else find it impossible to get a great pic of their silkies...???? Every time my phone or camera makes a click/noise they stretch their head up and look at me as if to say...***'

 

[Lady Chickadee]

Beautiful! I love silkies at that age

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Hello!!! Thought I would post some pics of my keepers from the last hatch. These gorgeous babies are just 3 months old.








And my cute lil 4wk white trio..

 

[bantamgirl]

hey i have a book with a section on hen crowing. hear is what it says.
among longcrowers, crowing hens are valuable as breeders. in other breeds, it implies that she is either diseased or getting on in years. an exception is a flock with no rooster, in which case a hen may take on the masculine role, including crowing.
a hen has two ovaries, only the left one produces eggs, while the right one remains undeveloped.if the left ovary becomes inactive due to atrophy or disease, the testicular tissue of the right ovary is stimulated into functional activity,resulting in the hen getting a dose of the male hormone responsible for crowing. sometimes an aging hen will crow during non laying periods, when male hormones exert greater influence than female hormones.

hope this helps.

 

[bantamgirl]

what color are these?

they are so pretty

 

[peepblessed]

Hello!!! Thought I would post some pics of my keepers from the last hatch. These gorgeous babies are just 3 months old.








And my cute lil 4wk white trio..

Very nice babies!!

 

[peepblessed]

OMG!!!! so cute...all of them...wait...I took some pics today.....let's see...




















Does everyone else find it impossible to get a great pic of their silkies...???? Every time my phone or camera makes a click/noise they stretch their head up and look at me as if to say...***'

Pretty, pretty!!!

 

[CALI CHICK]

hey i have a book with a section on hen crowing. hear is what it says.
among longcrowers, crowing hens are valuable as breeders. in other breeds, it implies that she is either diseased or getting on in years. an exception is a flock with no rooster, in which case a hen may take on the masculine role, including crowing.
a hen has two ovaries, only the left one produces eggs, while the right one remains undeveloped.if the left ovary becomes inactive due to atrophy or disease, the testicular tissue of the right ovary is stimulated into functional activity,resulting in the hen getting a dose of the male hormone responsible for crowing. sometimes an aging hen will crow during non laying periods, when male hormones exert greater influence than female hormones.

hope this helps

I have a friend whose hen started crowing the day after they butchered the rooster.

AND, one of our silkie chicks did the same thing when we re-homed a crowing cockerel (3 months ago). Whoever it was only crowed that one morning until BB (Bullet) crowed last week. Then s/he has only "crowed" maybe 3 mornings in the last 2 weeks. Now, 2 of my splash cockerels have started to crow on alternating mornings!

I'm so baffled by "WHO" is laying the egg, that my son helped me put food coloring inside both blue silkies' vents. (I'll need to buy new bottles of food coloring for baking because THOSE bottles are staying outside-hehe!) We put green inside Mysty-Blue and blue inside BB. The egg should have colored streaks from the hen that layed it.

I will keep you posted when we see the results of my experiment!