Silkie thread!

[I<3MyChickens-Jewel&Flash]

Ok guys...need advice.

I currently have 11 chickens.
3 baby chicks (2 sizzle blue, 1 silkie black)
1 black sizzle hen arya
1 black silkie rooster damon
1 splash silkie rooster (infertile)ichabod
2 blue hens Lydia and kira
3 older 3mo.chicks blue idk genders

Well a friend is trying to rehome to me her 4 she has.

Which is
1 sizzle black roo (black sizzle is its mom)
1 showgirl white rooster
1 black hen
1 blue showgirl hen

The only thing is if sizzle to sizzle would be bad. I prefer all to be in same coop but do t want chicks with problems.

Also I despise white silkies lol. But love showgirls. I'm afraid I'll get all white chicks in future which I dread.. would I? I'd love more splashes.

So what to do?

 

[jonsccm]

One of my blue Silkie Roos decided to be photogenic today thought I'd share.
Also is it normal to have a little reddish gold on the neck with blues?

 

[RoosterLew]

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Ok guys...need advice.

I currently have 11 chickens.
3 baby chicks (2 sizzle blue, 1 silkie black)
1 black sizzle hen arya
1 black silkie rooster damon
1 splash silkie rooster (infertile)ichabod
2 blue hens Lydia and kira
3 older 3mo.chicks blue idk genders

Well a friend is trying to rehome to me her 4 she has.

Which is
1 sizzle black roo (black sizzle is its mom)
1 showgirl white rooster
1 black hen
1 blue showgirl hen

The only thing is if sizzle to sizzle would be bad. I prefer all to be in same coop but do t want chicks with problems.

Also I despise white silkies lol. But love showgirls. I'm afraid I'll get all white chicks in future which I dread.. would I? I'd love more splashes.

So what to do?

If you keep the sizzle Roo and Sizzle hen in the same pen, you do run the chance of a double frizzle, if they mate 1in 4 could be double frizzle.

I only see one white bird in your list. Unless one of your ladies is hiding it. If not, it'll take 2 generations to have another white, and then only half the chicks will be white. That's assuming the White rooster mates with a daughter.

I guess, if you keep them all penned together you more than likely in time will end up with more white birds and some double frizzles.

The thing I am seeing is you will have 4 Roosters with 9 hens...and if half of your 6 chicks are fellas, that's 7 of 15?? Pretty high on the boy to girl ratio to be in a single pen.

 

[RoosterLew]

Btw...do you still count an infertile Rooster?

 

[I<3MyChickens-Jewel&Flash]

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If you keep the sizzle Roo and Sizzle hen in the same pen, you do run the chance of a double frizzle, if they mate 1in 4 could be double frizzle.

I only see one white bird in your list. Unless one of your ladies is hiding it. If not, it'll take 2 generations to have another white, and then only half the chicks will be white. That's assuming the White rooster mates with a daughter.

I guess, if you keep them all penned together you more than likely in time will end up with more white birds and some double frizzles.

The thing I am seeing is you will have 4 Roosters with 9 hens...and if half of your 6 chicks are fellas, that's 7 of 15?? Pretty high on the boy to girl ratio to be in a single pen.

I see what you mean. I may get the white rooster showgirl to breed with my dark hens. And keep a dark showgirl chick I get. May rehome him after...Idk yet.

I just don't want 2 pens lol. I got lucky with my roosters as I have integrated multiple roosters in the past and had no problem

 

[K Epp]

I've been feeding my cooped chickens mostly Silkies and d'Uccle game bird starter grower. I realize now that the 24% protein is to much for them long term. What should I feed them? I fed layer pellet, but stopped that because the calcium isn't good for the roos and non layers. I'd rather have a pellet because so much of the crumbles gets wasted. The feed store has a all Stock pellet that's 14%. I'm not concerned with egg production, but with the health of the birds.

 

[I<3MyChickens-Jewel&Flash]

Male or female? Guesses?

First two are 3 months in 3 days. Born 6/11.

Chick 1:

Chick #2

This one is giving me mixed views. The mother had a larger comb as well and is a larger hen then my other silkies. So I can't go by comb. It walks like a hen. It doesn't get into any fights with my rooster adult or other roo who a few weeks older.
I know it's got the best leg feathering ever lol

It is around 4mo..?

 

[RoosterLew]

I've been feeding my cooped chickens mostly Silkies and d'Uccle game bird starter grower. I realize now that the 24% protein is to much for them long term. What should I feed them? I fed layer pellet, but stopped that because the calcium isn't good for the roos and non layers. I'd rather have a pellet because so much of the crumbles gets wasted. The feed store has a all Stock pellet that's 14%. I'm not concerned with egg production, but with the health of the birds.

Giving layers calcium isn't as much about egg production as it is shell quality. As well, laying hens need the calcium for other things besides eggs! If your really that concerned with excess calcium for roosters, you should be just as concerned with to little for your hens!
Maybe you could give them the all flock and provide oyster shell for the hens?
You posted "all stock" , I think you meant "All flock". All stock is not chicken feed.

 

[K Epp]

No I'm asking about All Stock. The egg quality is fine no soft brittle shells. I give then lots of ground egg shells.

I will ask about All Flock. I haven't seen it at the feed store. The owner is going to ask the company if they have what I'm looking for.

What do y'all feed your birds that free range? What do you feed those that don't!

 

[Fancychooklady]

I've been feeding my cooped chickens mostly Silkies and d'Uccle game bird starter grower. I realize now that the 24% protein is to much for them long term. What should I feed them? I fed layer pellet, but stopped that because the calcium isn't good for the roos and non layers. I'd rather have a pellet because so much of the crumbles gets wasted. The feed store has a all Stock pellet that's 14%. I'm not concerned with egg production, but with the health of the birds.

The phosphorus , calcium and protein levels can be tricky with mixed flocks. By the time you see thin egg shells , the damage to the skeleton is already done.
I feed a product not unlike ' flock raiser ' 20% protein and mix it 50/50 with a mixed grain 14% . Always have calcium carbonate on free take and haven't had any egg shell quality issues . Continuos high protein will eventually lead to organ damage and visceral gout.

This product seems to tick all the boxes, low calcium , moderate protein , lysine and essential vitamins and minerals.

http://poultry.purinamills.com/OURPRODUCTS/Products/FlockRaiser/default.aspx