Silkie thread!

[LaPetiteFarmer]

This is my one and only silkie Pinga.
7weeks old.
Any idea it's boy or girl???

Love the picture! Sorry it's a bit too young for me to sex her/him.

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

For those of you more experienced with silkies than me, what color do I have here? I got three bright silver gray chicks out of paint eggs. They don't look like the typical blues I hatch. Thanks.

Deb

What a pretty chick! Love it!

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

Two self-blue in the foreground.

You always have the best background colors! Love that blue.... it brightens the colors of your self blues.

 

[debs_flock]

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Yay, that was my guess and I was hoping!

I would say splash or self-blue. Beautiful chick!

I've hatched splashes out in other breeds (Isbars, Araucana, etc.), but they don't have that look. They are just a bright silver gray. I believe self-blue is another term for lavender?

I just love them.

Thanks,
Deb

 

[aoxa]

Yay, that was my guess and I was hoping!


I've hatched splashes out in other breeds (Isbars, Araucana, etc.), but they don't have that look. They are just a bright silver gray. I believe self-blue is another term for lavender?

I just love them.

Thanks,
Deb

My splashes in other breeds looked a dull creamy colour with an occasional spot here and there.

My silkie splashes looked the same.

 

[debs_flock]

My splashes in other breeds looked a dull creamy colour with an occasional spot here and there.

My silkie splashes looked the same.

That's what I was banking on. All my other splash breeds are that creamy color too. Not that I wouldn't like splash silkies, but since I have quite a few blues, I'm assuming splash (and black) are in my future.

Deb

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Mine typically lay all winter, but not much in the summer. Stress, which includes weatehr extremes tend to make chickens lay less frequently. For you, being in Canada, winter weather would be stressful, while my comparatively mild winters are not. However, my extreme summers very definitely are stressful. When my silkies aren't broody or molting or stressed, they typically lay daily. I have had a few who only laid rarely.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: 95 degrees the first week; 90 the second, 85 the third, 80 the fourth. I don't recall reading how old they are, but I always base the amount of heat on their behavior. I rarely use a thermometer in the brooders.

 

[Feathersprings]

Mine typically lay all winter, but not much in the summer. Stress, which includes weatehr extremes tend to make chickens lay less frequently. For you, being in Canada, winter weather would be stressful, while my comparatively mild winters are not. However, my extreme summers very definitely are stressful. When my silkies aren't broody or molting or stressed, they typically lay daily. I have had a few who only laid rarely.

No sooner did I say mine had quit laying... she started again . We also had mild winters and not the hot summers either so hopefully mine will just continue most of the year.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I found what was to me the strangest thing in my silkie/SG pen. I was just wondering if anyone has had this. This egg is absolutely green cast. It has to be from the silkies.

The eggs are sitting on top of a white index card and they are L to R, a white egg from my campine, typical silkie egg, the green silkie egg, typical silkie egg and a brown egg from my egg flock. The egg at the top is a bobwhite quail. The egg was fresh (based on the weight of the egg). It was somewhat embedded in the muck (it's been raining like heck here) by the feeder. It was filthy, so I had no plans to try and hatch it. So I washed off the mud. My DH has convinced me to put it in the incubator (he wants to hatch EVERYTHING). It probably won't hatch because of the washing, but has anyone had a greenish egg from their silkies?

My runs are 6 ft wide. There is no run to their right, serama to the left, juvies to the left (polish, silkies, Iowa Blue), and then the closest blue/green egg layer in the next pen to the left, but they haven't started yet. If the egg came from them, it would have traveled at least 12 feet and passed through 3 chicken wire dividers. The egg couldn't have come from any other set of coops, there is an 8 inch kickboard all the way around each bank of runs to keep in the sand.

If I read this post from anyone else, I'd assume they were mistaken or making it up. All my birds came from well known breeders and don't look like anything other than silkies.

Anyway, anyone ever seen an egg this color from their birds?

Deb

Periodically someone starts to breed the blue egg gene into silkies. So its possible that one of your birds has that somewhere in its background. Or it could be stain from the muck you washed off (although for me muck-stained eggs are usually a patchy brownish colour).