Silkie thread!

[katzbantams]

@katzbantams the eggs have been in the incubator for 32 days? Are these silkie eggs? If so I would very carefully dispose of them.

There is a mix of eggs, maybe a few silkies.. They had a few silkies but I'm not sure if I got any. Lol.

 

[Fancychooklady]

By 5 months we for sure decided one of our Partridge was a boy and sure enough he started growing streamer feathers and a much larger comb.  The Partridge sister was more roundish in her crest and tail pouf where the boy was growing spikey feathers in both.  Of course the crow and the egg are the final judgment for sexing LOL

I can usually sex mine from about 10-12 weeks, but I don't like guessing with other peoples chicks. On the new horse Sil , my daughter had her first ride on him yesterday . He's a kind boy but he only has 2 speeds, walk and gallop. So she has school holidays now and he will get plenty of 'flat work' . The cold and rain won't stop her, she'll have him going nicely . His face is going down slowly. He loves it here at inlet farm.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

There is a mix of eggs, maybe a few silkies.. They had a few silkies but I'm not sure if I got any. Lol.

If all the eggs have been in for 32 days they are not good. Be very careful when you toss them. I'd put them in a gallon Baggie and then zip it shut. Then put it in another one

 

[Sylvester017]

I can usually sex mine from about 10-12 weeks, but I don't like guessing with other peoples chicks. On the new horse Sil , my daughter had her first ride on him yesterday . He's a kind boy but he only has 2 speeds, walk and gallop. So she has school holidays now and he will get plenty of 'flat work' . The cold and rain won't stop her, she'll have him going nicely . His face is going down slowly. He loves it here at inlet farm.

3 years ago the Partridge were our first Silkies ever and the breeder gave us two day-olds which a friend raised in her brooder for us because we were remodeling our house and the contractor wasn't going as fast as we wanted. When I would visit the Silkies at my friend's I kept saying I think that one is a boy. She laughed and said they were both pullets. Well by 5-1/2 months when we finally got to pick up our Silkies it was pretty certain who was the boy and girl. We had to give him back when he started his incessant crowing - one of the saddest re-homings I ever did.

I don't think race horses know how to go at a soft pace - their whole life is being pushed to the limit. Is he spirited to always want to run? He's had 5 years to get used to that lifestyle and will probably take more than a couple months to change the pattern. He may like jumping trials to keep moving but will probably approach them faster than need be. It's hard to hold back a race horse - even in the lineup approach to the racing gates they're already chomping at the bit. How lovely for your daughter to get a nice camera AND a race horse for her 18th!

 

[Fancychooklady]

3 years ago the Partridge were our first Silkies ever and the breeder gave us two day-olds which a friend raised in her brooder for us because we were remodeling our house and the contractor wasn't going as fast as we wanted.  When I would visit the Silkies at my friend's I kept saying I think that one is a boy.  She laughed and said they were both pullets.  Well by 5-1/2 months when we finally got to pick up our Silkies it was pretty certain who was the boy and girl.  We had to give him back when he started his incessant crowing - one of the saddest re-homings I ever did.

I don't think race horses know how to go at a soft pace - their whole life is being pushed to the limit.  Is he spirited to always want to run?  He's had 5 years to get used to that lifestyle and will probably take more than a couple months to change the pattern.  He may like jumping trials to keep moving but will probably approach them faster than need be.  It's hard to hold back a race horse - even in the lineup approach to the racing gates they're already chomping at the bit.  How lovely for your daughter to get a nice camera AND a race horse for her 18th!

Oh no that's the other daughter. She will have him listening to ' the aids ' in a few weeks. The nice thing about OTTT 's is they have seen most scary things imaginable and so they ' knuckle ' down to training very well. She's just been featured on the tasmanian racing site with her other OTTT, Rustic Fire.

The racing industry are really getting behind these kids that are giving the horses a second chance at life with sponsorship at a national level.

 

[John Simpson]

My duplex is now a triplex since I added a second level pent house for my baby Cochins. This is a true chicken condominium lol .

I'll post the finished product soon

 

[Susies Zoo]

I have 3- 2 month old silkies and I'm wondering what the colour is called?

 

[ihavechickens2]

some pictures I took today! sorry in advance that there are so many!
















This one usually doesn't hold his wings this low he was just hot.












would you all say this last one is also golden laced? but just with silkie feathers?

 

[nate1the1great1]

some pictures I took today! sorry in advance that there are so many! This one usually doesn't hold his wings this low he was just hot. would you all say this last one is also golden laced? but just with silkie feathers?

Wow those are very beautiful silkies i wish i could get some partridge silkies but for now i have a black and blue

 

[Patti Naquin]

I call him Bruce! Any thoughts on the gender? He acts like a Roo but I'm not sure...and I think it's trying to crow...it makes kinda like a choking sound lol He is also the Boss and tells the other chicks what to do...