Silkie thread!

[Jkraft]

@Naliez Thank you! The father was a partridge so you might be right.

 

[Cherie1n2]

These two chicks are 11 weeks old. Any ideas on gender?

 

[Fancychooklady]

Hello Everyone! I wanted to share a picture of my silkie Ryder. What color would you consider her to be? Thanks in advanced! :cd

She is a blue / black with red leakage. Usually the result of putting a partridge to blue or black birds. I have one just like her. Priscilla queen of the dessert.

 

[fancychick1]

My babies are three months old now and so far I have three pullets for sure and one I'm still not sure of but I'm crossing my fingers that it is also a pullet. My silkie flock did consist of one white male, four blue males and one blue female. I have kept my female with the white male and she hatched one more male and it was white so I now have six males. So momma is glad to have some more girls around. The other male silkies hang with the regular flock. Here's a couple of the new pullets.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

I'm brooding a friend's silkie chick with my marans. Both of this little chicks parents were black. Even the breeder she got it from was surprised to see it hatch as all the rest were black obviously. Does this mean that maybe there was a cross somewhere down the line and the recessive gene popped up this time? I'm curious to see what color it grows up to be.....

 

[drumstick diva]

Beautiful little chick.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

Beautiful little chick.

Agreed! I'm secretly hoping she forgets about it LOL

 

[Nanna34]

Please help my one Silkie chick is acting weird, he pulls his head into his chest and walks backwards. He eats and drinks and walks normal at times but keeps doing the head thing, I seperated him from the other chicks.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Please help my one Silkie chick is acting weird, he pulls his head into his chest and walks backwards. He eats and drinks and walks normal at times but keeps doing the head thing, I seperated him from the other chicks.

Could be a peck injury , but it could also be a vitamin deficiency. I'd be inclined to get some poultry vitamins into the water, nutri drench can be administered straight into the beak, just one drop and then also added to their water.

 

[Nanna34]

Thanks someone told me to also massage the chicks neck 4 times a day and give mashed egg as it is sounds like vitamin deficiency.