Good Morning,
I have not had a chance to post on here lately, but I do try to read several pages each day to get a little dose of silkie cuteness and info. Our family will be adopting my little cousin from Arizona (any day now) and when we get home I plan to fill the incubator with silkie eggs. Here is a picture of my son and our soon-to-be little boy: This was taken in Old Sacramento.
I thought I'd also share some pictures of some of my silkies at our new place.
Yesterday "Cloud" and "Shadow" were looking pretty by the grape plants..........until I realized they were nibling on the budding grape leaves. Those naughty girls. Cloud is really developing into a pretty white silkie. Her daddy was a Bobbi Porto silkie roo. Shadow is also very nice, but does have wry tail. :/
Silkie nap-time.
Someone picked up both of these chicks from my flock this morning. One had a single comb, like the daddy (out of 4 chicks) and the other has some red leakage on it's feathers. I'm happy they went to a great home.
Here's all 4 of the babies from the test hatch of my own splash rooster & blue hen. I think they hatched in January:
All 4 chicks, with the crippled one up front and the 2 just sold in the very back. The little cripple and the remaining chick will be going to a sweet neighbor who will care for them.............leaving me with only my bigger silkies.
I can't wait to hatch more babies.
I will be doing more of my own flock and shipped eggs -lots of eggs.
Here are my 5 older silkies. Splash rooster, dark blue hen, partridge hen and a white and black pullet. Eventually I will have a BBS, partridge and white breeding pen. Leo Pierre is a great boy and doesn't try to breed the 2 pullets....only the 2 laying silkie girls. (He's smarter than we gave him credit for!)
And last of all, I wanted to share what we did with a quail-coop which I re-did into a silkie coop........... Before
After
OK, enough of my photo-bombing this thread. Hope you're all having a great weekend and a Blessed Easter.
Okay, story incoming with cute ending (beginning?). One of my wyandotte mix hens went broody, but the day I put her in a broody isolation hutch she apparently laid an egg of her own in with the turkey eggs she was supposed to brood on. I didn't notice it until I did the day 12 turkey egg candling, and surprise, there was a day 12 chicken egg in there with them. This was a problem because chickens hatch a week earlier than turkeys, so if I left the egg in with the hen she would probably abandon the turkey eggs for the chick that hatched. So I slipped this little developing egg under a broody silkie in the silkie dogloo. Apparently, this silkie pullet's broodiness caused the hormones of the other pullets to go haywire, and I quickly ended up with 3 silkie pullets broody in the dogloo with her (I have 2 others broody elsewhere). They took turns stealing the single egg from each other, and lo and behold, today there was a fuzzy little chick nestled in between the 3 pullets. They keep making concerned broody clucks and trying to 'roll' the chick underneath them. So, all three girls think that the chick is theirs
He's going to be a spoiled baby! Very tired and newly hatched baby with his doting 3 moms
Okay, story incoming with cute ending (beginning?). One of my wyandotte mix hens went broody, but the day I put her in a broody isolation hutch she apparently laid an egg of her own in with the turkey eggs she was supposed to brood on. I didn't notice it until I did the day 12 turkey egg candling, and surprise, there was a day 12 chicken egg in there with them. This was a problem because chickens hatch a week earlier than turkeys, so if I left the egg in with the hen she would probably abandon the turkey eggs for the chick that hatched. So I slipped this little developing egg under a broody silkie in the silkie dogloo. Apparently, this silkie pullet's broodiness caused the hormones of the other pullets to go haywire, and I quickly ended up with 3 silkie pullets broody in the dogloo with her (I have 2 others broody elsewhere). They took turns stealing the single egg from each other, and lo and behold, today there was a fuzzy little chick nestled in between the 3 pullets. They keep making concerned broody clucks and trying to 'roll' the chick underneath them. So, all three girls think that the chick is theirs
He's going to be a spoiled baby!
Very tired and newly hatched baby with his doting 3 moms
Last year I had two hens that hatched eggs together, it was mom & her daughter. And they took very good care of those babies, together. I thought that was fun, but yours takes the cake on the cuteness level! lol
Hey guys I'm knew to this thread cause i just got 5 silkies this morning. Ones a blue, one red and 3 white. Im wondering if any one can tell me somethin that would be good to now about them
It's the official count down...this time next month my 2 white silkies along with 6 assorted other breeds with be arriving. Sooooo excited. Is there anything they required that apart from the others? I wanted a black also, but adding that to my order pushed delivery out until the middle of July.
This was taken in Old Sacramento.
