Silkie thread!

[PaintedFeathers]

Jingle and Jangle with mama Icelynn

They're getting so big!

 

[K Epp]

I think these two are both pullets can anyone confirm that?

#3 6 months old







#4 4mths old







I have to include this picture because it is the funniest thing ever. I don't know how I will separate this group when I get ready to do breeding pens in the spring. They stay together all the time and I got several pictures of them looking as if they were posing for a family photo. I may leave them all together and see what kind of chicks I get. Although I think they are all pullets.

 

[K Epp]

Jingle and Jangle with mama Icelynn

They're getting so big!

Lord love them they are at that funny stage that only a Silkie lover can love. I really want some blues to go with my 4.

 

[ChickNmamma]

These are my beautiesI'm suspicious of this one its the fuzziest and biggest of the bunchI think this one will be blue

they are 5weeks. When can people make s good guess on their sex? I know the forum says at least 4weeks but idk might still be too difficult. Are the biggest snd most feathered out typically cockrals

Um.. Silkies require 6 MONTHS to accurately sex.. see below....

Can y'all help please. I have got these Partridge as chicks in February at 9 months I'm still not sure on their gender. They are non bearded and I assume pet quality. It is windy and the lighting isn't great in some of the pictures. Their earlobes look white in the pics, but are shiny iridescent blue.

#1





#1 in front #2 in back.

#2








I thought for a long time they were both pullets then I got a good look at #1's wattles. Until today I thought I had a pair, but then I was at a friends who got chicks the same time I did and her roo has a much bigger comb and wattles than mine. At 9 months neither have crowed or laid a egg....

Both of yours look like girls. Beardless birds will have wattles - the beard suppresses them and the "proper" comb suppresses them - but they can still have wattles. I am working on creating some SQ Beardless Partridge Silkies, my hens all have small wattles. The boys have huge combs and larger wattles already and they are 6 months old. You might want to check and see if they are hiding their eggs.. they are notorious for building up a batch and going broody....

Jingle and Jangle with mama Icelynn

They're getting so big!

Awwww... chickie cuteness - and just past the firecracker stage

 

[bantygirl]

I think these two are both pullets can anyone confirm that? #3 6 months old #4 4mths old I have to include this picture because it is the funniest thing ever. I don't know how I will separate this group when I get ready to do breeding pens in the spring. They stay together all the time and I got several pictures of them looking as if they were posing for a family photo. I may leave them all together and see what kind of chicks I get. Although I think they are all pullets.

What is the breed of the white frizzle bird???

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Yes, sometimes all the black is reduced with successive molts. A bird who is pretty smutty may be very clear in 2 or 3 years. IMO, a little smut is okay, not perfect, but acceptable. However a bird who has so much that it starts looking like a partridge has too much to be worth anything other than as a pet.

I SUSPECT, that a bird split between brown and wheaten would give the best chances for clear bright plumage and dark skin/combs. However, there is a lot more to buff than just the base. It is probably the most complicated silkie colour. I will say that the birds that have it all, when bred together tend to produce offspring that also have it all.

Blue does not remove smut, but it does reduce its obviousness

 

[K Epp]

What is the breed of the white frizzle bird???

It is F3 silkie... I know its Mama and Daddy came out of a Silkie pen and it came out of a silkie pen. She has balck skin,5 toes and very nice feathered feet. I'm open to anything anyone can tell me about her. She has the best personality of all the Silkies I have.

No eggs from mt 9mth olds they are in a inclosed pen with other bantam ans none is laying. I only let them out to free range in the evenings when I can supervise. I guess the only roo in the coop is a young LF with a broken toe that I put in there to heal. Now to find a Silkie Roo.... lol how did I wind up with all pullets?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

These are my beautiesI'm suspicious of this one its the fuzziest and biggest of the bunchI think this one will be blue

they are 5weeks. When can people make s good guess on their sex? I know the forum says at least 4weeks but idk might still be too difficult. Are the biggest snd most feathered out typically cockrals

Not 4 weeks. Occasionally you can tell at 4 months, but often not until they are 8 or 10 months or older.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Can y'all help please. I have got these Partridge as chicks in February at 9 months I'm still not sure on their gender. They are non bearded and I assume pet quality. It is windy and the lighting isn't great in some of the pictures. Their earlobes look white in the pics, but are shiny iridescent blue.

#1





#1 in front #2 in back.

#2








I thought for a long time they were both pullets then I got a good look at #1's wattles. Until today I thought I had a pair, but then I was at a friends who got chicks the same time I did and her roo has a much bigger comb and wattles than mine. At 9 months neither have crowed or laid a egg....

You have two pullets One partridge, and one buff. The buff is quite dark for buff, though

 

[ChickNmamma]

Quote:
Usually when they say F3 that means the third generation bred back to get correct genetics. I believe she is a Sizzle and not a Silkie. She has smooth feathers, so somewhere in her breeding she lost one silkied feather gene (perhaps on purpose) while gaining that frizzle gene - its hiding under there but she isn't a "Silkie" as long as those feathers aren't Silkied... Your darker one looks like a Frizzled Silkie (got two Silkied genes) so she can be called a Silkie again as long as everything else is correct.

I have a Sizzle too - goofy bird! They started out as a cross between a Frizzled Cochin (or other bantam who was Frizzled, I heard some used Polish) and then crossed back to Silkies again to get the toes, skin, ears, combs, etc. correct again.