Silkie thread!

[LynnaePB]

Hi everyone, what color do you think my 3 day old silkies are? they are yellow and grey, are they Splash?
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Aww so adorable! I'm just guessing but they may both be white based on down color, although the first could be splash (maybe the second but it looks a little yellow to me to be splash). I used to have a few white silkies and their babies hatched out yellow to light grey (it's my understanding that the white babies that have grey tones to their down have the silver gene which tends to make a really nice crisp white when they are older). I'm still pretty new to silkies though so take what I say with a grain of salt!

 

[Chicksnmind]

Hi everyone, what color do you think my 3 day old silkies are? they are yellow and grey, are they Splash?
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In my avatar picture the white chick ended up being splash and my yellow chick ended up very white. Darker one is a blue.


My new silkie baby who is either a blue or splash. I hope it’s a pullet but it’s so confident that I think it may be a boy. It’s Dad was shy from a chick no matter how much he was handled so there’s still hope.


This is such a roo pose.

 

[Stacyoung13]

Aww so adorable! I'm just guessing but they may both be white based on down color, although the first could be splash (maybe the second but it looks a little yellow to me to be splash). I used to have a few white silkies and their babies hatched out yellow to light grey (it's my understanding that the white babies that have grey tones to their down have the silver gene which tends to make a really nice crisp white when they are older). I'm still pretty new to silkies though so take what I say with a grain of salt!

Well, I don’t like salt, so I’ll take it as your best info. I’m hoping for Splash, but white works too

 

[BlueBaby]

Well, I don’t like salt, so I’ll take it as your best info. I’m hoping for Splash, but white works too

I have some paint chick's, but I wanted a plain white. I had to get the best of what was available to me at the time. I still want to set up a pen that just has the good white's in it someday.

 

[Stacyoung13]

I have some paint chick's, but I wanted a plain white. I had to get the best of what was available to me at the time. I still want to set up a pen that just has the good white's in it someday.

If we were close enough we could trade. Lol, we have what each other want. Lol. I’m not giving up, I’ll get a Splash or painted eventually

 

[chickisoup]

Good Morning everyone
I'm seeking to connect with chicken folks who have Silkies in the northern climes. I have always had (and have) large heritage breed poultry but I am considering adding Silkies this year. My problem is I know nothing in regards to how cold tolerant they are or how well they might integrate with a large bird flock.
Anyone on here be able to help?
I live in northern Wisconsin. We still have snow on the ground. Our winters can get really bitter often having stretches where it may get barely reach above zero for days at a time (so much for global warming). I have a radiant heated, temp controlled insulated coop with an enclosed "breezeway" to the small greenhouse for my birds to play and sunbathe in when the weather gets too much outside. This entire area has clear roofing and a passive solar heating setup so the ground never freezes in winter and supplies extra daytime heat to the coop. (the venting/airflow is set up to do the opposite in summer). We keep pathways shoveled and the birds can come and go from the greenhouse whenever they want during the day. Everyone is locked up tight at night out of necessity. We just have too many predators. My coop has even, thankfully, proven to be completely bear proof.
So, opinions/shared experienced from anyone with keeping Silkies with large birds and/or in snow country?
TIA everyone!!!

 

[pointsalamander]

hello all. I have a question. I have had a few little silkies for a bit now, but I mostly stuck to solid colors. I know that without a DNA test its almost impossible to tell female or male. But I find myself with these two little partridge cuties. I was trying to see what they would look like as adults. My little light body dark head one I found images of no problem.

What I am struggling with is my baby in the back. I only found a few imagines of a dark body with the more orange/caramel/dark buff head.... and those were roosters. Is is possible to have a hen like that or is that a sex linked trait for partridge coloring? Anyone have photos of a dark bodies orange headed hen?

(these two are 4 weeks old. The one in front was VASTLY smaller than the pen mates. The one in back is large, but was smaller than the 3rd chick in the pen who was most DEFINITELY a roo because it stood almost half again as high as my bird and was the most upright protective baby at 2 weeks).

 

[pointsalamander]

Good Morning everyone
I'm seeking to connect with chicken folks who have Silkies in the northern climes. I have always had (and have) large heritage breed poultry but I am considering adding Silkies this year. My problem is I know nothing in regards to how cold tolerant they are or how well they might integrate with a large bird flock.
Anyone on here be able to help?
I live in northern Wisconsin. We still have snow on the ground. Our winters can get really bitter often having stretches where it may get barely reach above zero for days at a time (so much for global warming). I have a radiant heated, temp controlled insulated coop with an enclosed "breezeway" to the small greenhouse for my birds to play and sunbathe in when the weather gets too much outside. This entire area has clear roofing and a passive solar heating setup so the ground never freezes in winter and supplies extra daytime heat to the coop. (the venting/airflow is set up to do the opposite in summer). We keep pathways shoveled and the birds can come and go from the greenhouse whenever they want during the day. Everyone is locked up tight at night out of necessity. We just have too many predators. My coop has even, thankfully, proven to be completely bear proof.
So, opinions/shared experienced from anyone with keeping Silkies with large birds and/or in snow country?
TIA everyone!!!

I live in the Twin Cities. My silkies are just as good in the snow and cold as my Salmon Faverolle. The only time I worried about them is when it was -30 this winter, but they were in an unheated garage out of the wind and they don't have a mark on them.

 

[sue25]

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A partridge silkie hen is very even colored throughout her feather when dealing with partridge any bright colors in one place will indicate a roo. They are the only silkie you can sex by color.

Blue Partridge hen.

Partridge hen

 

[pointsalamander]

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A partridge silkie hen is very even colored throughout her feather when dealing with partridge any bright colors in one place will indicate a roo. They are the only silkie you can sex by color. View attachment 1734432
Blue Partridge hen.
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that doesn't give me much hope... my poor kids... they keep having to give back these chickens (we can't have roosters in our city, thankfully the breeder has a rooster return policy).