Silkie thread!

[ChickenMama6RIR]

​that's where I got them r king wants 7.99 each!! they only had four left so they marked them down they where in the bantam cage!! but tractor supplies reg price is 2.99

Wow! See that's were I would go chicken math crazy and buy as many as I could( only in my mind as I have already bought 13 chickens, one died though). Yeah, at tractor supply they've been having a bunch of corinsh rocks, so I DID think about getting some if those for meat.

 

[kellyloveschad]

Wow! See that's were I would go chicken math crazy and buy as many as I could( only in my mind as I have already bought 13 chickens, one died though). Yeah, at tractor supply they've been having a bunch of corinsh rocks, so I DID think about getting some if those for meat.

 

[moomoodiddy]

Cheap chicks from feed stores are of terrible quality though. I recommend buying from a breeder that is working toward the standard.

 

[ChickenMama6RIR]

Cheap chicks from feed stores are of terrible quality though. I recommend buying from a breeder that is working toward the standard.

That's true. I do believe they are bad quality.

 

[QueenMisha]

Cheap chicks from feed stores are of terrible quality though. I recommend buying from a breeder that is working toward the standard.

Absolutely agree. Especially with Silkies.

 

[moomoodiddy]

Is creating new colors frowned upon by APA standards?

 

[Sylvester017]

I think they have quite a few types of cuckoo patterns around here there is partridge cuckoo, Grey cuckoo, blue cuckoo, buff cuckoo, blue partridge cuckoo, regular cuckoo, light grey cuckoo, I also seen a lemon cuckoo!!!

There might be more that are under way!!

I have some chicks that I hope turn into cuckoo they have alot of silver barring in there wings right now!!!

My understanding is that Cuckoo Silkies can have black and white skin patches rather than being completely black. The Cuckoo pattern seems to interrupt the solid melanism? If you wind up with Cuckoo chicks, let us know if the skin is blotchy or solid black.

 

[Sylvester017]

Is creating new colors frowned upon by APA standards?

New colors in chicken breeds are projects done by many owners. The thing about getting a new color accepted into the APA is that it takes years of breeding quality project birds that breed true from the newly created colors. It takes many different breeders working on the same color and entering them into shows meeting show qualifications for the new breed color and then it takes about 5 years of show appearances for the APA to finally accept a new breed color. At least, that's what I've derived from reading breeder posts. Perhaps a breeder of show Silkies can further explain?

 

[janmarie123]

Are silkies good chickens to have?

 

[LadyVictorian]

Depends on what you want from a chicken. They are good droopy hens and lovable companion animals.