Silkie thread!

[Daisy9696]

Can some please sex my silkies?

 

[peepblessed]

Can someone please link me to the silkie color chart? I cant seem to find it anywhere

Thanks

Blue, black, splash, white, partridge, self-blue (lavender), buff, and grey are the recognized colors. Paint, Porcelain (usually shown as self-blue cream), cuckoo are some of the common project colors.

hope this is what you was wanting ashortt

I haven't posted any silkie pictures on here in quite some time. My adults still really need to go through a molt.. really ratty right now. The chicks are finally passed that ugly stage they go through.

Fluffy butts galore!


You talkin' to me? One of the partridge pullets. 8 Weeks.


These are project partridge, as we could not find any true in our area. They are buff with partridge base x Jamie Carson's best white females. Some are coming out quite nice.. others are looking like smutty buffs.


Mmm apple. That duck thinks it's a chicken. Here's hoping it is a girl so it can stay a chicken.. otherwise he will be eaten


The one on the left is 6 weeks old, the one on the right is 8 weeks.


See what I'm talking about with the smutty buffs? Any boys like this will have to go. I may keep a girl or two just as broodies.


One of my favourite 8 week old partridge girls.


Look at the legs on this one!

They all have such fully feathered legs. The wings are also all looking nice and tight for this age.

I have some whites, blues and black chicks growing out in the brooder. They are white x white and blue x blue breedings. I bought the above pictured birds because I so want partridge again.

Such lovely photos as always. Hope your new barn project is going well!

I have trimmed the muff, may look into getting some hair tape for her crest, I would really like to show her, but I have had so many problems with her when trying to integrate her into the white pen I have with 12-ish adult birds. I know my husband has been looking for some diapers for her and *Chrystal (spelled it wrong before) because they are the only pullets I was able to hatch and keep from LFB (roo in profile picture) before he was taken by a hawk in April. Right now, Eve and Chrystal are outside in a rabbit hutch turned brooder/sick call chicken pen, where I can monitor the food and water intake and keep an eye on them from the living room.

 

[aoxa]

Such lovely photos as always. Hope your new barn project is going well!

Thank you!

It's all done!



You can check out the interior on my coop page to see the set up. I am very pleased with it.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Male or female?


Male or female?

Can some please sex my silkies?

If you want some guesses (and they will ONLY be guesses) we will need close-ups of their heads to see their combs and beaks.

From what I see right now - they look too young to guess.

 

[Ashortt]

Great pictures, really enjoyed looking at them!

 

[sacramento]

I don't know if you can see the pic... but this is my lovely (blue maybe?) Silkie roo , Chicken

 

[ChickNmamma]

Great pictures, really enjoyed looking at them!

I don't know if you can see the pic... but this is my lovely (blue maybe?) Silkie roo , Chicken

Hello to both of you and welcome to the Silkie Thread, and

I see the picture, but not the top of his head. He isn't a Blue - looks like possibly a Gray - or a mixed up color. Does he have red in his wings?

 

[mketchum826]

Is my silkie a boy?? He was recently found crowing but I was wondering if hens can crow? Thanks

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10200284695501394

 

[ChickNmamma]

Is my silkie a boy?? He was recently found crowing but I was wondering if hens can crow? Thanks

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10200284695501394

Yes, hens CAN crow. How old is it? Take a good look at the comb - is it what is making the crest part so far to the sides? Also - are those longer feathers coming out the top of its head? It looks "boyish" to me...

 

[Jharper]

Don't you show non bearded silkies differently than bearded?