Silkie thread!

[joe17]

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I found this article. hope its of some use to you

http://www.americansilkiebantamclub.org/standard.asp

Thanks, I have both SOP. I want "if the comb has 6 points instead of 5 the bird will be docked x amount of points" or "if the color of the bird is too brassy, this will cost x points" and so on. Points judges use as a guideline.

This is a point sheet.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4012909

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
I found this article. hope its of some use to you

http://www.americansilkiebantamclub.org/standard.asp

Thanks, I have both SOP. I want "if the comb has 6 points instead of 5 the bird will be docked x amount of points" or "if the color of the bird is too brassy, this will cost x points" and so on. Points judges use as a guideline.

It should be listed at the very front of the standard, before they start giving the standard for specific breeds.

 

[LittleChickenLady]

So my little brother showed my Silkies at the county fair this week. The judge liked them, but I was told that my white one was a pullet and "not quite old enough and needed some time to grow up" to be shown.
Now I was the person with the cross-beaked Silkie chicks and just happened to be able to get two Silkie hens around the same time I had to get rid of the babies.
I was told that they were a year old when I got them.. including the white one. Now, the white one has never laid an egg.. but the black one has.
So I'm wondering if my white Silkie really is a pullet and they just didn't know how old she was, or if she's just a little smaller than usual.
I don't really notice much of a size difference between the two of them..

Can anyone tell me how to tell how old she really is?
And how big are Silkies supposed to be when full grown?








Oh, and the baby Silkies are still alive and at my grandma's house. They're eating just fine and everything, but the little blue one will need to be put down sometime we believe.
It's beak is getting a little more worse, but the white one isn't that much different. I'll go see if I have pictures.

 

[LittleChickenLady]

Okay. These were taken on the 3rd of July.

They're still eating and such just fine, and are actually pretty chunky. My grandma just wants to wait it out a little bit.
ETA: can you tell what gender either of them are?

 

[racuda]

These are cross beaked too.

 

[mljohnson05]

By the looks (of the crossed beaked silkies) of your hands around them.....they look really small...and by the new feathers on the crest, I want to say they are Very young.....mine are about 5 months old and don't even fit in my 2 hands and are fully fluffed out. Perhaps a full body shot of them with someone in the pic would help a whole lot better to tell you the age range.

Here is my Pearl...so i don't get asked again...Her color only looks like that in the bright sun.....I only played with the picture background NOT the bird itself....She is about 4-5 months here and a girl for sure !

 

[emvickrey]

What causes the crossed beak? I've had a few turn out with it.

By the way, here's a few of my hatch from yesterday. It was a good hatch. All where fertile, 1 died after it hatched and 1 died about half way thru incubation. There where 16 eggs. I traded 2 silkie chicks for the 4 sizzles that where under a broody. The sizzles aren't in the pic


These are the sizzles

 

[Brody's Broodello]

107 degress here today! Heat index for my area was 122! I spent 3 hours out in it, moving most of the silkies (breeders that is) into the basement. 65 birds later & the barn looks like a ghost town. Sorry wyandottes, but there is no more room at the inn. I have 50 hens in a make shift pen, together. So much for telling who lays what! All the boys are in carriers, but the girls look like a mass of multicolored fluff! Thank god they have bands on them or it would be total mayhem!

 

[geosheets]

Brody's Broodello :

107 degress here today! Heat index for my area was 122! I spent 3 hours out in it, moving most of the silkies (breeders that is) into the basement. 65 birds later & the barn looks like a ghost town. Sorry wyandottes, but there is no more room at the inn. I have 50 hens in a make shift pen, together. So much for telling who lays what! All the boys are in carriers, but the girls look like a mass of multicolored fluff! Thank god they have bands on them or it would be total mayhem!

107... yuck... good thing you have a basement.​

 

[Brody's Broodello]

The bad part was trying to find room for them all, that is where I have the chicks/ducklings brooding. Needless to say" I don't need to electric alarm clock anymore!"