Silkie thread!

[ottbjumper06]

I also looked at some cat dance porcelain silkies and they look like that as well. I'll post some pics of my pair once I get them home. Yours are quite the lookers!

 

[kabhyper1]

Snow does that when I get them up in the evening for poops and food. Ashes doesnt. I could take her a mile away and she still wants to sit. I got her to eat a bite of food last nigjt, but she doesnt snap out of her trance like snow does. Neither one is interested in getting up on their own, I take them out in the evening and make them stretch. Snow eats from the nest too. Ashes doesnt tjat I have seen.

When a broody won;t get off hte nest on her own, many will pick her up, walk a great distance away and place her in front of feed and water.  Nine tmes out of ten, the bird will ravenously eat for a bit, then run around and drop a stinky broody poop bomb, o back to eating and drinking, and when she's had her fill, will ssedately walk back to her nest and cover her eggs.

 

[MandyFitch]

Hi guys and gals!

So Princess Celestia, my white silkie, has just started crowing. He's almost four months old. Is there any chance that he is crowing as loud as he will ever do or do they tend to get louder with time?

 

[gcorso33]

My babies are about 10 weeks old now. They are so sweet

She is VERY tame and sweet. Not sure about her color. She is on the yellow side.



She is my favorite/pick pullet.



This is the lavender chick that was upside down and I helped hatch. She was so tiny but is now catching up.



This blue girl looks black in person. Weird how the camera shows her as a lighter blue. She has one curled toe. She is VERY friendly and squats already when petted!!



This is my second pick porcelain rooster. I think he is going to be a pretty boy once his head feathers come in. those pin feathers make him look messy right now

This little girl has me worried. She is small (same size as the lavender pullet) seems too mellow and light weight.



This porcelain boy wouldn't stand for his picture to show off his nice profile. Unfortunately he has a crossed beak

I was so sure this was a boy, but turns out it is a girl

This is my favorite/pick rooster. I am a sucker for his dark orange head feathers. Look at his bright blue ear lobes! He has a large crest that was getting in his eyes causing one to weep, so he got a trim today before his picture was taken.

I love the porcelain I also did a catdance hatch not to long ago ended up with a lot of females here's a couple pics.

 

[kabhyper1]

Okay so I took the mommies into the laundry room to eat and relieve themselves (so gross, but its to snowy outside, so I was on broody poop, paper towel in hand walmart bag at the ready, duty.) They did great. I think Ashes is just a young slow learner. I gave them a mixture of their run sand, food and scratch to eat, and their water. They mostly wanted the scratch, didn't drink any water, which I thought was odd, but they have access to it, so I'm not worried about it. After about ten minutes, I took them back to their tote. They both went right back to their nests without issue, and Ashes nuzzled down onto her eggs like she is supposed to. As usual Snow tucked hers in, Ashes didn't, but we are making progress. They can get off the nests to eat and drink if they want, or eat from where they are laying. We take them off once a day to take care of business, but they really just want to brood, so room to roam isn't a huge concern right now. Thanks for everyones advice on them. I know Snow will do great. Ashes is just new at it.

 

[bantambury]

I got 3 silkies out of the 6 eggs that were supposably silkies....the other 3 were Japanese Bantams. LOL

We have a partridge, Buff, and white!

Buff: this little guys has a slipped beak.....bummer.

this makes me relly depressed.....NO breeding for me.

White

partridge

 

[chickee]

I love the porcelain I also did a catdance hatch not to long ago ended up with a lot of females here's a couple pics.

Yours are beautiful too! The Catdance Silkies are great! I am jealous you got a buff! I really wanted one, but none of those eggs hatched I thought I had mostly boys, so I am thrilled that I got more girls!

 

[ottbjumper06]

This is a bad picture, she was sleeping, but I'm so excited about having a silkie I can hardly stand it!

 

[Lady Chickadee]

Still wondering about colors...Porcelain should be a cream color maybe some darker in the hackles? Any other colors in porcelain? As chicks sometimes spots? or not?
Splash is white with black spots or can it be more a cream with black spots?..
Trying to get a handle on what i have
I have gotten chicks from 2 people one said they were Porcelain the other said theirs were Splash. All started out white with black spots now some don't seem to have any spots and are more cream with a darker reddish cast to the roos hackles and maybe a streak of a few hairs of black in a spot or 2
Only one pullet has a few spots and shes lighter than the males not sure if you would call her cotton white
Here are my pics not too good im afraid First are supposed to be splash both roos
one pullet. picture 2 .. splash? has spots lighter color but not pure cotton white .
Same cockrels in the 3rd picture

Below are the Porcelain...

These pic 4 the "porcelain" seem to have more black combs too. 2 pullets and a cockrel I think

The first few pictured are paints, splash is more blue looking. Here are a few pictures to help tell the difference between splash and paint. The cream or red in the roosters hackles is leakage, which is common on paint roosters. I can't really tell in the last pic but it looks like the one to the far left is porcelain but the other two just look white to me but its hard to tell with the picture.

Paint pullet next to a splash cockerel


paint pullet


splash hen

 

[All4JnG]

Hi all silkie lovers!!! I'm new to this site and chickens all together. I haven't had chickens since I was a child on my Grandpa's farm (which he took care of, or just told me what to do). Now I'm finally in place where I can start up my own coop. I've been researching breeds and I FELL in love with everything I've read and video's I've seen. Thinking of starting small, any tips for a new comer?