Silkie thread!

[Suzierd]

Hatched on Good Friday from the eggs I purchased here on BYC. All 6 made it!

those are some cute peeps!

 

[Sustained]

It means you will probably have an egg within the next few days :yiipchick

I'm hoping!! I've never set my own eggs (due to not having a rooster before) and I'm dying to

I do have a RIR that's about laying age, as well as 3 silkie hens, and I'm curious what a RIR/silkie would look like

 

[MumsyIII]

This is my red barney. Half recessive white silkie and half bantam RIR. She lays well and is a broody too. She has black skin and five toes each foot. First generation crosses have smooth feathers like her. Second generation back to silkie gives silkie feathers but weird combs and feet. It takes many generations back to silkie to get a good typey silkie again. At least in my flock that's how it works.

 

[dandymandie]

The girls had their first time outside yesterday while we finished up the coop! At first they seemed a little bothered, but they had a blast scratching, pecking up mealworms, and Napkin ran around in circles with a slice of banana while the others chased her. She does that with dandelion also. Haha

 

[Sustained]

This is my red barney. Half recessive white silkie and half bantam RIR. She lays well and is a broody too. She has black skin and five toes each foot. First generation crosses have smooth feathers like her. Second generation back to silkie gives silkie feathers but weird combs and feet. It takes many generations back to silkie to get a good typey silkie again. At least in my flock that's how it works.

Oh how cute!

I read somewhere that because my roo is silkie and the hen is RIR that they're sexable at hatch? It didn't say how to sex them though

 

[Fancychooklady]

Oh how cute!

I read somewhere that because my roo is silkie and the hen is RIR that they're sexable at hatch? It didn't say how to sex them though

As far as I know colour sexing isn't very reliable in silkies or silkie crosses. Ie using a red roo over a silver based hen, all the yellow chicks are cockerels.

 

[MumsyIII]

In my own flock, I can sex the cross silkie chicks at day old if the legs are orange or yellow. Those chicks are always male. Chicks with black or sometimes dark green legs are always female. This is just with my own silkie x smooth feather breeds though. I know my own strains. Other's may differ.

 

[kyexotics]

These are our Buff Boys, Hanz and Franz! We think they're beauts!!!!!!!!

 

[BonRae67]

These are our Buff Boys, Hanz and Franz! We think they're beauts!!!!!!!!

Very handsome men.

 

[Teresaann24]

My silkie eggs candled on day 4