Silkie thread!

[sillycmoy]

I have 18 all together, just the 2 Silkies. I have posted photo's of all the ones that are around 5-6 months old and haven't started laying, but we are winter here, so I wasn't too worried about it. But for the last 2 weeks my eggs looks like these. And everyone is telling me they are for sure fertile. And I can't figure out who it is. Driving me nuts.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: The very last photo MIGHT be male...but the others all really look female from what I can see, and even the last one I m not certain of. Try to check the spacing between their pubic bones. Males have little space, the the bones are pretty rigidly fixed. Females have more spacing, and they are more flexible.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I have 18 all together, just the 2 Silkies. I have posted photo's of all the ones that are around 5-6 months old and haven't started laying, but we are winter here, so I wasn't too worried about it. But for the last 2 weeks my eggs looks like these. And everyone is telling me they are for sure fertile. And I can't figure out who it is. Driving me nuts.

Now I'm very confused; there are photos of more than 2 silkies...

 

[sillycmoy]

Nope, just 2 Silkies. I have more of the black one because everyone was saying it might be the black one.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Nope, just 2 Silkies. I have more of the black one because everyone was saying it might be the black one.

Sure looks like a partridge, at least a couple of porcelains, a blue, a blue with a silver neck, ...

 

[sillycmoy]

Nope just 2. And they both are so different looking depending on light. I believe the black with the silver is a partridge, and then a funky color porcelain. But I'm not even sure you would call them that.

 

[kabhyper1]

Okay experts, as I previously posted, my blue broody Ashes is not great at it yet. She has been broody off and on for awhile, and just last week started sitting constantly. She always wants to brood under the ramp going into the coop, so I blocked it off. She then moved to the coop doorway. When I decided to let her have a few eggs, along with my other proven broody Snow, she sat like a happy little camper. The problem I am noticing, is she seems to not notice the eggs. She just wants to brood in her trance, but doesn't pay attention to the eggs. She sits all day, and I have to really work to get her out of her trance to eat. She is a newbie. I have considered giving Snow all of the eggs, since she is a good momma, but I don't want to take them away from Ashes. I thought about waiting a bit since they are only 3 days in, and are in the house, so I can watch them closely. I would like for them to both be able to hatch eggs, but Ashes doesn't tuck them when they are placed in front of her like Snow does, and Snow seems to adjust her sitting more. So I'm not sure Ashes is even turning them. She will brood anywhere I set her whether there is anything under her or not. Any advice? I have tried to break her unsuccessfully. It would be easier to let her hatch.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Sure looks like a partridge, at least a couple of porcelains, a blue, a blue with a silver neck, ...

I thought that too, but after looking back they are the same birds just different lighting and they are getting washed out in a couple. The blue is the partridge but it is only showing the darker underfluff because of the sun.

 

[Suzierd]

Okay experts, as I previously posted, my blue broody Ashes is not great at it yet. She has been broody off and on for awhile, and just last week started sitting constantly. She always wants to brood under the ramp going into the coop, so I blocked it off. She then moved to the coop doorway. When I decided to let her have a few eggs, along with my other proven broody Snow, she sat like a happy little camper. The problem I am noticing, is she seems to not notice the eggs. She just wants to brood in her trance, but doesn't pay attention to the eggs. She sits all day, and I have to really work to get her out of her trance to eat. She is a newbie. I have considered giving Snow all of the eggs, since she is a good momma, but I don't want to take them away from Ashes. I thought about waiting a bit since they are only 3 days in, and are in the house, so I can watch them closely. I would like for them to both be able to hatch eggs, but Ashes doesn't tuck them when they are placed in front of her like Snow does, and Snow seems to adjust her sitting more. So I'm not sure Ashes is even turning them. She will brood anywhere I set her whether there is anything under her or not. Any advice? I have tried to break her unsuccessfully. It would be easier to let her hatch.

I don't know about her turning them but I think they need to be able to get up and stretch, eat and poo for a few minutes and it looks like yours can't get out of the plastic tote. She may eat better if she were of the nest for a bit.

 

[Suzierd]

So I have a mystery Rooster outside because I'm getting fertile eggs. I'm dumbfounded by who it is, and everyone has stated that everyone looks like a pullet, and they were sexed pullets except for the Silkies. Now I had 4 Silkies all hatched May 1, 2013. The other 2 were double the size and started crowing around 9 weeks of age, and so I re-homed them. And these 2 have always been smaller, and no peeps out of them. Please, please tell me its not one of them. Everyone is banking that it has to be one of them. I just want to cry.

They do both look like girls if it had to be one I would say the porcelain. But I don't see any streamers at all. I would really start watching their behavior, if its breeding you would think it would be dancing and calling the girls for food and even trying to crow. Have you trimmed the crest at all?