Silkie thread!

Ella went broody even though there was nothing in her nest box. She's one of the indoor chickens who lives in my mudroom. Her companion, Thunderhead, is all confused why she's not spending time with him anymore. I tried breaking her of it by removing her nest box, but all she did was find a corner, scratch around in the sand and settle back down again like her imaginary eggs moved to that spot since her nest is no longer available.

I wish I had a fertile egg or two to give her, but I don't even know if any of my roosters are fertile yet. They're quite incompetent. They're five to six-month-old silkies and a cochin who haven't figured out yet a little romance goes a long way. Grabbing someone's neck and mounting her just gets them thrown off and pecked. And they don't go for the silkie or cochin hens who are closer to their size. No, they go for the LF hens who are like five-six pounds compared to their two or so pounds. White Flame is so totally in love with Henrietta, the largest of the RIR that he gets upset of any other rooster shows her affection. Even when they do bother to romance and get a willing hen, they end up mating with with her back rather than the appropriate area.
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It's a good thing I'm not really looking to breed my silkies or anything. It might be years before I get anything.
I'm in Indiana, and always have fertile Silkie eggs, but I don't ship, so that probably doesn't help you. Hopefully you can break her or find her some eggs. :)
 
I'm in Indiana, and always have fertile Silkie eggs, but I don't ship, so that probably doesn't help you. Hopefully you can break her or find her some eggs. :)

Too bad you're not closer. I'm in Iowa and it's hard to find silkies locally period. I was lucky to find a breeder where I got most of mine and then from a 4H teenager whom sold me Ella.
 
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If I breed my red silkie rooster with my white silkie girls, will there be a possibility I could get red? I've hatched a partridge so far but I was wondering if it was possible to breed for red without having the red hen and red roo. I only have the red roo....hope this is the right place to ask :)
 
If I breed my red silkie rooster with my white silkie girls, will there be a possibility I could get red? I've hatched a partridge so far but I was wondering if it was possible to breed for red without having the red hen and red roo. I only have the red roo....hope this is the right place to ask
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No telling what you will get when you have whites bred to a different color. Whites hide genes.
 
I need advice from some silkie sages. I have a birchen roo and a buff hen. Will they make offspring with acceptable colors?

No, There are no Birchen Silkies - and Buff must be bred to Buff to maintain the color of Buff. What you will get will be mixes that might almost be close to accepted colors - so you can play with them and see, but you will not get all "acceptable" colors from all the mixes.
 
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