Silkie thread!

[peepblessed]

Uploaded some of my weekly pictures to PB tonight. Time for picture overload..

Broody cuteness (raising RSL chicks)

Phyllis - Not sure what she is doing here lol

Unnamed - She is so cute

11 weeks old tomorrow!

Agatha - 13 weeks

Phyllis again

My really small hen Pearl (left) who is over a year old, and her 12 week old chick right beside her.

More broody cuteness (daughter of first broody hen). Lorraine with her 6 silkies and 1 sizzle

Some are 2 weeks old, some are just a week.

Frizzled silkie cockerel - 14 weeks
More to come.. Computer is loading very slowly tonight

Some real beauties there!!!

 

[peepblessed]

Peepblessed --

He's a more recent picture of Micah's comb.

I think my guy's comb is bigger but not real red. I'm going to try to get a photo tomorrow. I bet they came from the same two parents.

 

[Sanna]

And my cute lil 4wk white trio..

These are great pictures! The last two are my favorites. What's that little black chick doing? Sun bathing?

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

Wow, what a hairdo! lol Love it.

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!

Post us pictures of your experiment! I'd like to see how those eggs come out with the color.

Took me forever to load this to Youtube

Steve showed his kids how to dustbathe like a man.

They kill me! lol Chickens look like they're having a seizure or something when they're dust bathing. And the funny little noises they make. Cracks me up.

 

[ChickensXOXO]

I think my guy's comb is bigger but not real red. I'm going to try to get a photo tomorrow. I bet they came from the same two parents.

I'll be waiting for the picture!

Oh, and how old is yours?
I believe Micah was born December 2011; so he's 8 months old.

 

[Denise661]

I think my guy's comb is bigger but not real red. I'm going to try to get a photo tomorrow. I bet they came from the same two parents.

CHICKENSXOXO
PEEPblessed
WHAT COLOR ARE THEY ?

 

[cindersga]

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 is FUNNY!!!

and...she just layed it right there on the floor not even in a box? Well...my husband found a silkie egg outside of the coop. All the older hens lay in the coop. Two lay in the boxes up top and one lays under the hanging food container. Soooo, I wondered...Could I be wrong on the age and they be 4 months but, that is still too early. Tell me about the streamers...are they coming down from their legs, tail, what? I'm NEW at this chicken stuff. I can't believe how much there is to learn and be prepared for. Right now I'm dealing with two broody hens that I am trying to break.

Thanks for the heads up though and I look forward to how the lipstick works and who layed your egg!

 

[cindersga]

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...***'

DWEGG ~ Are you selling any of your pullets? I am looking for a buff, blue, and Splash and I live 1 hour east of ATL.

 

[cindersga]

Phyllis is so uniquely marked. What is that called?

 

[DeannaOR]

I've been saying that I want a Partridge Silkie hen for a while now...then I saw an ad advertising just that with a photo. The photo showed a greyish variegated bird. I thought partridge was a red/brown/gold/black looking pattern/color. Is partridge only a pattern?

 

[aoxa]

Phyllis is so uniquely marked.  What is that called?

She is partridge, and thank you I love that little girl!