Silkie thread!

[TAMMACLEAN]

Splash/ splash = splash. Splash / blue= 50% splash 50% blue. Depends how many chicks you are hatching from that hen too. In order to predict the colours of your chicks you also have to know the genetics behind your blue. Perhaps she has splash in her line too.

I suppose she just might. I was really looking forward to blue though. I'm not sure color she really is. To me she seems like she's black.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I suppose she just might. I was really looking forward to blue though. I'm not sure color she really is. To me she seems like she's black.

Introducing the blue is good for the line because after a few generations of splash/ splash the offspring start to look 'washed out '. The blue will result in stronger splash coloration in your line.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

Introducing the blue is good for the line because after a few generations of splash/ splash the offspring start to look 'washed out '. The blue will result in stronger splash coloration in your line.

The one on the left isn't that washed out or as white as it looks in the picture. They do produce very nice babies, I've just always wondered why I never get anything but splash. Might be time to add another hen or two from another line.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

What would happen if I breed a splash rooster to a white hen?

 

[Fancychooklady]

Once you add white it's unpredictable . Probably white.

 

[camire77]

I have a couple questions about silkies. Do they roost? If so how far off the ground? Do they go ina nesting box when they lay eggs? How tall for that? Do you have to put them away every night? Mine do not walk up the ramp to the coop unless I put them on the ramp.

 

[HeIsKing]

i want to get a silkie so bad but have not got around to it!

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have a couple questions about silkies. Do they roost? If so how far off the ground? Do they go ina nesting box when they lay eggs? How tall for that? Do you have to put them away every night? Mine do not walk up the ramp to the coop unless I put them on the ramp.

How old are your silkies? Sometimes it's just a maturity thing. Mine sleep on perches and the juvis will hang around the nesting boxes. I have seen 6 week olds up on the perch , tucked under the roos wing.

 

[camire77]

They are about15 weeks. I don't have any low perches right now. Thought about putting some in. Not sure how high.

 

[DanielE1990]

I have read that silkies can not fly so I was a bite confused on this too. I was thinking one at 8" and then one at 16" but im not sure if thats good or not.