Silkie thread!

[OohLaLa]

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.

Congratulations all round on your new additions and cute coop. Sending many blessings for your new lives together.

 

[JacqueOCS]

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

Sweet! He'll def be well loved

 

[Sanna]

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

Cute!

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

The most important thing you need to know is that you'll be addicted in no time!

 

[heirloomorps]

Here is some of my new babies I hatched from my own stock. Had a great hatch 20/24, still deciding what some of the colors will be.

LOVE that Paint chick! Cute spots already.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Enjoying the spring weather

 

[JacqueOCS]

This is cotton my white silkie "RIGHT" before she laid her egg this morning.

Pretty girl!

 

[JacqueOCS]

Enjoying the spring weather

Beautiful silkies!

 

[peepblessed]

Can I give my girls blue cheese? I bought a wedge and I HATE it! They might like it though.

I would feed it to them.

so I went on vacation for a week and I just got back now. none of the eggs are growing. none! from my hen or from the pullet. so frustrating!

Maybe your roo is too young and timitd still.

Beautiful silkies!

For sure!

 

[OohLaLa]

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.

 

[starkiller8]

Ha I already am!