Silkie thread!

[SilkiesInSuburb]

These are my pullets and cockerels:

Thunder, a splash pullet

Disco, a black pullet

Charlie, a partridge pullet

Carl, a porclien cockerel


Hamlet, a black cockerel


And I don't know if this is violating the rules, but I thought my paint pullet Sweetheart was a silkie but she's a sultan.


They are all 17 weeks old or 4 months

 

[Sylvester017]

I purchased eggs from eBay. I'm wondering if I have been sent a different breed. I'm use to silkie eggs being small and these are rather large in comparison to the eggs I have placed in the incubator. (Which are also silkie eggs) so I guess my question is can a silkie lay normal store size brown eggs?

Brown? I have 2 Silkies from 2 different breeders - a Black Silkie and a Partridge Silkie - and both their eggs are consistently 1.25-oz and both are cream/tinted eggs. The only difference is that our Partridge lays a matte finish creamy color and the Black Silkie lays a glossy finish pinkish-tint creamy color. Why the different finishes or tints? I don't know? But we never had a brown egg or an egg larger than 1.5-oz from our two hens.

 

[Sylvester017]

These are my pullets and cockerels:

Thunder, a splash pullet

Disco, a black pullet

Charlie, a partridge pullet

Carl, a porclien cockerel


Hamlet, a black cockerel


And I don't know if this is violating the rules, but I thought my paint pullet Sweetheart was a silkie but she's a sultan.


They are all 17 weeks old or 4 months

All your juvies are gorgeous. I love our Black Silkie but in her older age her beautiful shiny black plumage has turned to a lot of rust feathering. At first I thought it was from the sun bleaching outdoors or dirt baths but now I'm thinking she is just getting old.


PULLET PHOTO - SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL BLACK ALL OVER




CURRENT PHOTOS SHOW A LOT OF RUST PATCHES ON 4-YR-OLD BLACK SILKIE - DISREGARD THE BLUE BREDA PHOTO BOMB

 

[jas humbert]

I have 7 silkies who are currently laying and the eggs vary from almost white to regular light/medium brown (similar to a wyandotte but not near as dark as welsummers or marans. Most are some shade of cream/pale brown but no two are exactly the same color. The size of their eggs vary but most look like a store sized small or medium. I have had shipped eggs several times
and the size does vary somewhat according to where they came from but most are a store sized small or medium. Also keep in mind that pullet eggs are a bit smaller than they will be for the same hen next season
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Here is the darkest laying silkie I have (the small egg) compared to a standard sized Wyandotte and a Welsummer eggs. All are pullets

 

[Sherloki]

All your juvies are gorgeous. I love our Black Silkie but in her older age her beautiful shiny black plumage has turned to a lot of rust feathering. At first I thought it was from the sun bleaching outdoors or dirt baths but now I'm thinking she is just getting old.


PULLET PHOTO - SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL BLACK ALL OVER




CURRENT PHOTOS SHOW A LOT OF RUST PATCHES ON 4-YR-OLD BLACK SILKIE - DISREGARD THE BLUE BREDA PHOTO BOMB

I feel like it has to do with both age and the sun. I had a black Holland Lop for several years who also would get those rusty patches, but whenever he molted the fur that came in would be black again. When he was younger it was less obvious, but as he aged he got more and more of those brown sun patches, that would go away again by winter.

 

[Sylvester017]

I feel like it has to do with both age and the sun. I had a black Holland Lop for several years who also would get those rusty patches, but whenever he molted the fur that came in would be black again. When he was younger it was less obvious, but as he aged he got more and more of those brown sun patches, that would go away again by winter.

I still haven't been able to determine if it's sun, dirt, or actual rust feathers growing in. She had recently gone through growing new porcupine feathers on her crest so if she was indeed molting, I can't figure why the rust feathers remained -- unless Silkies don't molt all their body feathers at once? I mean, with our Leghorns and Ameraucanas you could tell they were molting because it looked like pillows exploded in the yard and there was some bare skin showing but with Silkies I've never seen that happen and I've had the Silkies for 5 yrs.

 

[30erink]

I just got three silkie chicks early this month and I was wondering if someone could tell me what colour type they are?

I completely forgot to upload the images earlier. I have two of the yellow (bottom image) and one of the brown.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I completely forgot to upload the images earlier. I have two of the yellow (bottom image) and one of the brown.

Bottom one looks like a paint, not sure on the top one .

 

[CHICKENFARMER22]

I'm going to fly over and steal your chooks they're so lovely!
Looks male to me, judging by the wattles and crest shape :/ cutie
partridge?

I know atleast the one is partridge but wasn't sure about the other one

 

[Sherloki]

I still haven't been able to determine if it's sun, dirt, or actual rust feathers growing in. She had recently gone through growing new porcupine feathers on her crest so if she was indeed molting, I can't figure why the rust feathers remained -- unless Silkies don't molt all their body feathers at once? I mean, with our Leghorns and Ameraucanas you could tell they were molting because it looked like pillows exploded in the yard and there was some bare skin showing but with Silkies I've never seen that happen and I've had the Silkies for 5 yrs.

Hmmm. Interesting. Has it only happened with your black or have others ended up with rust color feathers? I'm trying to remember if any of my others ever did. I feel like I had a blue that did, but I'm not positive.