Silkie thread!

[Tammylr]

Has anyone tried to create an auto sexing silkie with the barring gene? Just wondering. I have two cuckoo silkie eggs in the incubator and it seems like something good to work towards.

 

[Annalog]

Our Silkie Tapioca has been sitting on three eggs that were due to hatch tomorrow. This morning DH drove to our daughter's house and I did not get home from work until after 6pm. So, of course, one of the chicks hatched today and fell out of the nest. When I came home I fed all the chickens and fed the Silkies last. I checked under Tapioca, found the empty eggshell, but no chick. I did not hear any young chick cheeping but did hear the two one-month old chicks. I looked back under the nesting boxes and saw the small, still chick, a New Hampshire. I picked it up and it moved. I put it under Tapioca, added more nesting material, and added a temporary cloth barricade to keep the chick in the nest overnight. By the time I was finishing the barricade, the chick was cheeping. Tomorrow morning I will try to move Tapioca, chicks, and eggs to a floor nest before I go to work. Hopefully the other eggs will hatch tonight. DH will not be home until tomorrow afternoon.

Hoping that I got the chick back to Tapioca in time. Glad it was a warm day here. High of 80°F in the coop and just over 70°F when I got home.

 

[Suzierd]

Our Silkie Tapioca has been sitting on three eggs that were due to hatch tomorrow. This morning DH drove to our daughter's house and I did not get home from work until after 6pm. So, of course, one of the chicks hatched today and fell out of the nest. When I came home I fed all the chickens and fed the Silkies last. I checked under Tapioca, found the empty eggshell, but no chick. I did not hear any young chick cheeping but did hear the two one-month old chicks. I looked back under the nesting boxes and saw the small, still chick, a New Hampshire. I picked it up and it moved. I put it under Tapioca, added more nesting material, and added a temporary cloth barricade to keep the chick in the nest overnight. By the time I was finishing the barricade, the chick was cheeping. Tomorrow morning I will try to move Tapioca, chicks, and eggs to a floor nest before I go to work. Hopefully the other eggs will hatch tonight. DH will not be home until tomorrow afternoon.

Hoping that I got the chick back to Tapioca in time. Glad it was a warm day here. High of 80°F in the coop and just over 70°F when I got home.

Wow! That's one lucky chick sounds like you found it in the nick of time. So glad you did!

 

[BonRae67]

Our Silkie Tapioca has been sitting on three eggs that were due to hatch tomorrow. This morning DH drove to our daughter's house and I did not get home from work until after 6pm. So, of course, one of the chicks hatched today and fell out of the nest. When I came home I fed all the chickens and fed the Silkies last. I checked under Tapioca, found the empty eggshell, but no chick. I did not hear any young chick cheeping but did hear the two one-month old chicks. I looked back under the nesting boxes and saw the small, still chick, a New Hampshire. I picked it up and it moved. I put it under Tapioca, added more nesting material, and added a temporary cloth barricade to keep the chick in the nest overnight. By the time I was finishing the barricade, the chick was cheeping. Tomorrow morning I will try to move Tapioca, chicks, and eggs to a floor nest before I go to work. Hopefully the other eggs will hatch tonight. DH will not be home until tomorrow afternoon.

Hoping that I got the chick back to Tapioca in time. Glad it was a warm day here. High of 80°F in the coop and just over 70°F when I got home.

That is awesome you found the little one. Hope all is well with it.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Our Silkie Tapioca has been sitting on three eggs that were due to hatch tomorrow. This morning DH drove to our daughter's house and I did not get home from work until after 6pm. So, of course, one of the chicks hatched today and fell out of the nest. When I came home I fed all the chickens and fed the Silkies last. I checked under Tapioca, found the empty eggshell, but no chick. I did not hear any young chick cheeping but did hear the two one-month old chicks. I looked back under the nesting boxes and saw the small, still chick, a New Hampshire. I picked it up and it moved. I put it under Tapioca, added more nesting material, and added a temporary cloth barricade to keep the chick in the nest overnight. By the time I was finishing the barricade, the chick was cheeping. Tomorrow morning I will try to move Tapioca, chicks, and eggs to a floor nest before I go to work. Hopefully the other eggs will hatch tonight. DH will not be home until tomorrow afternoon.

Hoping that I got the chick back to Tapioca in time. Glad it was a warm day here. High of 80°F in the coop and just over 70°F when I got home.

So glad the little chick was ok!

 

[Annalog]

Thanks everyone. The little chick seems OK, all Tapioca will let me see is two little yellow feet standing under her. Another chick hatched, a BR/barnyard mix. I removed that shell and decided to not move them until tomorrow when I have the day off. DH will be home by noon today and can check on them then.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

My Silkies and Sizzles have been in separate breeding pens for a few weeks, and I've finally started collecting eggs to put in the incubator! I'm so excited, I can't wait to see what these chicks look like already!!!

 

[katatonic123]

Ugh my roos are fighting.

 

[bantambury]

My Silkies and Sizzles have been in separate breeding pens for a few weeks, and I've finally started collecting eggs to put in the incubator! I'm so excited, I can't wait to see what these chicks look like already!!!

do you have frizzle roosters with smooth girls or smooth roo with frizzles? im starting my frizzle line and I have a smooth roo with my frizzle hen. I got a frizzle hen and smooth roo from my first hatch with them. does the gender carrying the frizzle or smooth trait make the difference?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

do you have frizzle roosters with smooth girls or smooth roo with frizzles? im starting my frizzle line and I have a smooth roo with my frizzle hen. I got a frizzle hen and smooth roo from my first hatch with them. does the gender carrying the frizzle or smooth trait make the difference?

My breeding pens are set up as follows:
1 blue Sizzle (frizzled) roo with 2 splash Silkie hens
1 splash Silkie roo with 1 blue Sizzle (frizzled) hen, 1 blue or black frizzled Silkie and 1 blue Silkie hen.
1 black Silkie roo with 1 black or blue Sizzle (frizzled) hen, 2 black or blue Sizzle (smooth) hens and 3 black or blue Silkie hens.

So, my Sizzles are all mixed in with Silkies and the Sizzle rooster isn't being housed with any of the smooth Sizzle hens. I'll probably end up switching them around again at some point and put the 2 smooth Sizzles in with the frizzed rooster at some point though. All of my Sizzles at this point are either really dark blue or black, so I've set them up so I can get some splashes out of them. The only reason I know the Sizzle rooster is blue is because he's given me splash chicks when set up with the blue and splash hens (same with the blue Sizzle hen, when paired up with the black rooster, I got blue and black chicks, it was easy to see they were blue in chick down, but not so much now that they've feathered out). I'm not really sure if the others are blue or black, so the breeding pens will help me determine their colors as well. I don't usually keep blues that look black, but I need all of my Sizzles for my project, so they're staying for now. Once I start getting chicks that start out blue and stay blue, I'll sell all of the blues that look black.
It doesn't really matter which gender is carrying the frizzle, in my opinion. I get smooths and frizzles out of the hens and the rooster, and haven't noticed a difference in the number of frizzles depending on which gender is supplying the frizzle gene.

Good luck with your frizzles, you'll have a lot of fun breeding them!