Silkie thread!

[PaintedFeathers]

This is what I know as a sizzle.

left is a sizzle, right is a frizzled silkie

Sorry to repost this, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me the color and possible sex of my 8 week old Silkies. I took the photo's in the house, since they wouldn't hold still for a minute outside. Out of a Blue Splash Roo, White Hen


#1 the smallest of the group, looked like a chipmunk as a chick








#2









#3-Biggest of the group, pretty sure he is a Roo










#4, I'm thinking this one is a roo too

Already answered gender a couple pages back, first and last are blue, second and 3rd both look porcelain, just #2 looks much lighter.

Can you tell me if I could show this one? Does it meet the requirements?

You can show any bird, she just won't be judged with the other birds. I am not completely sure yet if you can show a sizzle as a silkie/frizzled. They are not ALL cochin/silkie mixes I don't believe. Yours looks to be full silkie. I would say go for it, what's the worst that can happen? The judge won't judge your bird? At least other people can see her and learn about them =)

 

[Jharper]

left is a sizzle, right is a frizzled silkie
Already answered gender a couple pages back, first and last are blue, second and 3rd both look porcelain, just #2 looks much lighter.
You can show any bird, she just won't be judged with the other birds. I am not completely sure yet if you can show a sizzle as a silkie/frizzled. They are not ALL cochin/silkie mixes I don't believe. Yours looks to be full silkie. I would say go for it, what's the worst that can happen? The judge won't judge your bird? At least other people can see her and learn about them =)

I thought that the right one was a sizzle and the left was a frizzle.

 

[katzbantams]

HELLO, my hen Boo layed an egg but didn't sit on it. So I took it home and incubated it. A chick hatched and is now 16 days old. During the incubation , Boo layed and hatched 10 eggs. Boo is a silkie chicken and I had heard that they are more merciful so I put Zebreina( my chick at home ) with Boo and her 10 chicks. I took Boo off the nest and added Zebreina to the nest. Boo instantly pick up Zebreina up by the neck and toss her off the nest. I attempt this every day but it always ends unsuccessful with Boo tossing Zebreina away. What can I do????

Also , Zebreina think she is human. She follows me , pecks at my lips and refuses to sleep soundlessly without me. When I put her in the coop , she either looks at me and hoots continuously or runs and follows me away. She talks all night unless she is in my bed, ( YES, I kinda started that problem because she was sick on her first night so I made her a dipper and let her curl up with me in bed) I feel LIKE A HORRIBLE MONSTER when I leave her with Boo!

How can I wean her off of thinking she's human and what do I do about Boo rejecting her!!!!!!! :-(

Well, when I had incubator full of bantams, one black old English pullet hatched... she acts like a human too, she jumps on my hand and I bring her around with me. Her name is Henreyetta. At first we thought she was a cockerel but them we discovered she was a pullet, as a cockerel her name was Henrey, so now its Henreyetta . Well, after she hatched something went wrong with the incubator, it shorted out an all the eggs/soon to be chicks died..

it was horrible. So Henreyetta was the only chick. She lves in her own cage for now until she gets a little bigger and tougher, then we will wean her in with the other bantams slowly. What other chickens do you have? Just the Boo and her new chicks? Just be carefull with Zebreina. Boo probably won't take her back bc she didn't hatch her. Also, for my chickens, the hens usually only go broody when their nest is full with eggs 4-10. So Boo wouldn't have sat on one egg. I hope Zebreina good luck!!!

 

[katzbantams]

I'm starting to think Professor Fluffles needs a name change. More like the Countess of Fluffles. She has a very dignified walk and rarely runs anywhere. All the other chickens are very happy to come beg for and fight over treats. Fluffles never gets involved in those scuffles; she just watches as they all fight each other. I've never seen her sunbathe nor does she ever look like she's taken a dustbath. The other silkies will sometimes walk around sporting grass, woodchips, and dirt on their wing and tail feathers after a good dust bath, not her. She preens obsessively. She hates being picked up--that transition between standing on the ground and being held is just undignified--but loves being carried around. She'll sit happily on your lap for a while if you scratch her in just the right place on her back. But when she wants down, she'll stare longingly at the ground until you put her down. Jumping is undignified. She has her own "lady-in-waiting" in Cottonball who follows her around almost everywhere and sleeps surrounded by all the silkies plus the egg layers who still don't roost. And to top it off today, my son tried to feed her a grape, but she wouldn't eat it until he peeled it for her.

It's funny to see her in comparison to Pinto, who just jumps into the fray with the larger egg layers, gets dirty in mud, runs around the yard like mad chasing bugs, eats like a pig (I swear that chick always has a full crop whenever I pick it up) and generally believes it's one of the "big chickens." Being small, Pinto sneaks up under a bigger chicken and steals the treat from her mouth. Being fast, nobody can catch it to get the treat back. It's a tiny thing even though it's nine weeks old. My six-week-old silkie chicks are almost as big as Pinto.

Haha , that's funny

 

[Sanna]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I am going to wait a week and see how they start to look, might take some back if I can find any better ones for sale. Didn't know about the light beaks chancing or I might have grabbed some different ones. I just grabbed some with the darkest feet and beaks. Some had 2 colors on their toes and I was too paranoid to know if that was normal.

Yup sometimes there will be "pigment holes" on their toes but they usually darken up within the week.

I think sometimes the pigment holes or light skin, even in adult birds, could be a sign of poor breeding. But it really doesn't matter when you have chickens for a pet.

I would say if you are not going to be breeding then keep them and love them.

I agree!

 

[PaintedFeathers]

I thought that the right one was a sizzle and the left was a frizzle.

Nope

 

[Jharper]

Nope

Well I thought that's what sizzle meant. A frizzled silkie with silkie feathers, but with just being frizzled at the same time. It's kind of self explanatory in the name wouldn't you think?

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Well I thought that's what sizzle meant. A frizzled silkie with silkie feathers, but with just being frizzled at the same time. It's kind of self explanatory in the name wouldn't you think?

That's what I used to think too. But no a sizzle is a silkie with hard frizzled feathers, a frizzled silkie is one with frizzy silkied feathers. When breeding frizzled silkies you get frizzle feathers, smooth feathers, silkie feathers and frizzled silkie feathers

 

[Jharper]

That's what I used to think too. But no a sizzle is a silkie with hard frizzled feathers, a frizzled silkie is one with frizzy silkied feathers. When breeding frizzled silkies you get frizzle feathers, smooth feathers, silkie feathers and frizzled silkie feathers

But wouldn't that be the name sizzle then?

 

[PaintedFeathers]

But wouldn't that be the name sizzle then?

not a silkie with frizzy silkie feathers. Only a silkie with hard frizzle feathers. Why don't you join my facebook group? https://www.facebook.com/groups/147142108802506/?fref=ts