Silkie thread!

[reereechickens]

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Very pretty!

 

[racuda]

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Very pretty!

Thanks! She and/or her sister are the mothers of your chicks.

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

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SHOWOFF!!! beautiful bird !!!

 

[Floridachicken1958]

That is one nice looking bird! Wuld be nice if you would sell him

 

[Chicklette 1]

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Thanks very much for the analysis.......I got him from some breeder near Lex. but from the looks of the place, I wasn't even sure he was really purebred. I needed a couple of chicks to keep a single hatch chick company and theirs were about the right age. I just like his coloring and would not show him. At the moment, I do not need more chickens so I will just collect my eggs and not do any hatching except for My Seramas. He was just so different looking that I wondered what I had and I really appreciate the time you took to answer me. I'll just go on loving him!

Been doing this a while. Actually I'm surprised how long I've been raising Silkies because it just doesn't seem like it. In the beginning I thought my attachment to the oddballs was that they were new to me. Fast forward a few years and it remains the same, the oddballs are my favorites. I've managed to breed some very nice birds but they lack something. For most of them its personality. Maybe without the occasional oddball popping up I wouldn't be raising them now. Who knows. Every coop needs a special bird or two.

I know just what you mean even though I have only been doing this for a year and a half or so. I have been all over the board with breeds that I thought I would enjoy having. Kind of a sampling of all these fun breeds but the silkies are always one of the first breeds to catch ones eye. I have about 4 of them and my friendliest one is my white roo who has to sit on my lap if I sit down in the pen. He ATTACKS anyone who comes into the pen but he's always wanting my attention. Such beautiful birds!

 

[racuda]

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SHOWOFF!!! beautiful bird !!!

Thank you. She is the sister of your bird. They have the same mother and probably the same father.

 

[crazy4eggsJulie]

Hello everyone,
I follow several threads here on BYC but am new to Silkies. We purchased a couple of white silkies from a local hatchery and they both ended up as males. They're fighting pretty bad, so a friend is going to take one for me. I'm not sure who to keep. One is bigger and is clearly the alpha male. The other is more gentle, easier to handle, etc. I know NOTHING about silkie type, etc. so I thought I'd ask you all to take a look at them. It was pretty windy when I took the photos. I'm dropping one off tonight, so any QUICK responses would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

One more thing, we also got a self blue female. What color should I expect the offspring of the white male and the self blue female to be? Random because they're hatchery stock?

Alpha male

Gentle male

 

[PamB]

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Since they are hatchery birds, you should just go with the nicer one.

 

[crazy4eggsJulie]

That's what I was thinking. We like the nicer guy. The alpha male is bigger, has bigger comb and wattles, more consistant blue in the earlobes, and is more puffy overall so he "appears" to look nicer to my untrained eye. But I know from my other breeds that bigger isn't always better...

 

[robin416]

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Can't see his feet but I like the looks of the Alpha better.

Its anybody's guess what you will get with female. Two copies are needed for lavender (self blue). Could you also post a pic of her? Just to try and confirm she is actually a self blue.