Silkie thread!

[horsesncars]

We have various egg laying chicken breeds and just acquired two Silkies! Love them!!! Anyone near the Frederick MD area with Silkies for sale???

 

[debbie50chicks]

Omg my first check to hatch is the cutest.

What color? Because mom is black sizzle. Dad could be a calico roo, partridge roo or white. My rooster is a splash.. but I don't think he 8 fertile

How adorable!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Horsesncars- you could ask on the Maryland thread in the Where Am I? Where Are You? section of the forum.
I got the hen in my avatar and a nice splash hen from a breeder somewhere in Maryland, but I have no idea who they came from. A friend grabbed them for me when she was there picking up some chickens for herself of another breed.

Good luck!

 

[Momma 2 silkies]

Well all chicks hatched except 1. There are 3 total. And they are adorable.

Chick#1


Chick #2


And last chick #3



Here is the mother...8 have no idea how something so cute came from something so crazy lol


The father has to be a partridge or calico rooster. Unless my senior splash rooster is throwing non blanks. I thought he was infertile.

How old until I can tell if the are sizzle or not?
What colors do you think they are?

Also I may take chicks away...Idk yet. She wants to go set on my other chickens eggs who started to lay eggs. I put them in a different corner of coop and she still goes to them.

If they are sizzles you should know within the week. The feathers start to curl as soon as they start to grow out. They look like they are going to be blue and maybe black but I would go blue with the light coloring on them.

 

[B J Hopkins]

Not sure where you are at in Illinois, but there are several breeders in Indiana that have white and buff chicks. Check out the Indiana thread or the member's list for names and locations.

I have silkies in northern Indiana that were just fine this past winter when the temps were hardly ever above freezing. I did keep a heat light on them, but that only raises the temp about 10 degrees. Guessing since you are further south, your silkies will be fine.

I live 1.5hr north of Springfield MO. My first winter w/Silkies I used a heat lamp.Last winter I wintered 15 Silkies w/out any heat lamp. They ALL came through just fine, even on the coldest nights they were fine.

 

[B J Hopkins]

Not sure where you are at in Illinois, but there are several breeders in Indiana that have white and buff chicks. Check out the Indiana thread or the member's list for names and locations.

I have silkies in northern Indiana that were just fine this past winter when the temps were hardly ever above freezing. I did keep a heat light on them, but that only raises the temp about 10 degrees. Guessing since you are further south, your silkies will be fine.

I live 1.5hr north of Springfield MO. My first winter w/Silkies I used a heat lamp.Last winter I wintered 15 Silkies w/out any heat lamp. They ALL came through just fine, even on the coldest nights they were fine.

 

[B J Hopkins]

Sorry about the double post.

 

[Uzair Ahmed]

Does black silkie males and females have short height compared to white ones?
If yes, why is that so?

 

[dstinett]

I have my first white Silkie hen and black Silkie rooster. He is much smaller. I'm curious now toi

 

[Roxannemc]

Suz
Love your paints.beautiful..What state are you located..love some nice paint eggs.
Thanks for the answers on buried eggs..
I candled my sikies eggs day 8 didnt look too promising to me but i usually candle day 10
so maybe too early..but they dont look fertile to me..none.
If a sikie roo crows is he ready to mate or does crowing come early?.I have a nice black roo.Like to put him with her. but hes going to be 5 mo nths or is it 6? sept11