Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

Is this considered split wing? Or is this just feathers growing in? Should I be "culling" these from my program?

WAY, WAY, WAY too young to tell!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I have plenty that are similar in type to your blue. And sometimes judges prefer them

Sonoran, when I first posted on this thread a couple of months ago, I asked what type y and type s where. I figured it out. Type s is types, plural form of type. And type y is typey, descriptive version of type. Doh!

LOL! Now that makes sense

 

[aoxa]

The four Silkie chicks hit the five week mark today. I tried taking their portraits but they didn't want to cooperate. They wanted to sit and sleep under the spot light.

I still think they are one female and three males. When you study their faces you can see what I see maybe?


Miss Peggy is the smallest chick and the most shy. Food coloring on the feet helps me identify the chicks through the window of the chick house easily. I have poor eyesight and need all the help I can get.

Mr. Wiggin is the alpha chick and was the only boy that would stand for his portrait.




Mr. Big Foot is the smallest of the boys but he doesn't try to challenge any of the chicks.


His face had caked on FF I had to rub off.



Mr. FuzzyCheepster spends most of his time challenging Mr. Wiggin. They go at it in mock battle quite a bit.



This guy is very active. I like him best of the three I think are male.

I think you are spot on with your gender assessments. Definitely agree 100%. I also like Mr. Fuzzy Cheepster best. He has the best name out of the boys too

 

[aoxa]

PA is Paint. B/S 2 is blue/splash pen 2. L2 lavender pen 2. Por Porcelain. Bu buff. I couldn't read most of them.
That's a long wait!!

What does just P stand for? What about X?

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

What does just P stand for? What about X?

I will think P stands for Partridge but X I have no idea.

 

[Sanna]

What does just P stand for? What about X?

P was partridge. X I have no idea. You can always contact Karen herself. She answered all my questions when I ordered eggs...still does.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

POR = porcelain
L = lavender
W = white
BU = buff
P = partridge
PA = paint
B/S = blue/splash
The number 2 means pen 2, I think. So if you have W and W2, you have two white eggs from two different white breeding pens.
BLK I think was black if you have any.

I wish I got all those porcelain and lavender eggs with my order.  I had one porcelain which turned out to be infertile. Two  lavender; one infertile and the other never hatched.  Some day I'll have one of each color!

Thanks for posting this! I was wondering what the markings on my Catdance eggs were.

 

[littlecritters]

Got to love all these creative names.

A hawk killed two of my silkies. I caught him with one of my hens the day before yesterday. But thought the rutkess i made would keep him away and yesterday he got my rooster. I could kick myself have been free ranging since summer in the day and lock everyone away in the evenings without incident but now gonna have to build a chicken run and in the meantime keep them on lock down. Plus gonna have to clean up the mess the hawk made. She was the best layer,and he was my only silkie rooster.

Very sorry for your loss...

I just love watching my girls lay their eggs, especially my Tina. She purrs and does the broody food call while she's laying When she's finished, she'll pick up a bunch of shavings (one at a time) and put them on her back and cluck, cluck, cluck her little heart out. Cutest. Darn. Thing. EVER!

So cute...

 

[Sanna]

Thanks for posting this! I was wondering what the markings on my Catdance eggs were.

You're welcome

 

[aoxa]

You're welcome

Sanna, have any more colour Acronyms? I am making a list on here for others to reference.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/acronym-list-for-byc


Quote: This is what I have so far for colours. Thanks to you for a lot of them!