Silkie thread!

[Daisy9696]

Keep me in mid!

 

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

Where are you located? I would only sell him locally.

 

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

I'm not sure if silkies not being able to fly is true or not. My silkie cockerel, age 2 months, is a better flyer than any of the sussexes, barred rocks, welsummers, and rhode island reds. He will fly about 4 feet and land gracefully while the others look like drunk ducks.

 

[ChicksNherps]

I'm not sure if silkies not being able to fly is true or not. My silkie cockerel, age 2 months, is a better flyer than any of the sussexes, barred rocks, welsummers, and rhode island reds. He will fly about 4 feet and land gracefully while the others look like drunk ducks.

This more applies as they get older. My hen can't fly, too heavy for those shredded wings, but ice could fly if she wanted, if only for a little bit longer, at 4 months.

 

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

This more applies as they get older. My hen can't fly, too heavy for those shredded wings, but ice could fly if she wanted, if only for a little bit longer, at 4 months.

Ahhhh ok.

 

[aoxa]

This more applies as they get older. My hen can't fly, too heavy for those shredded wings, but ice could fly if she wanted, if only for a little bit longer, at 4 months.

My silkies never could fly more than a foot to a roost even young. All my 6 & 8 week old standard & bantam breeds (other than the silkies) could fly and roost on the edge of the playpen. Not the silkies.

 

[Daisy9696]

Located in Minnesota

 

[yoie]

Ok, this morning when I went out to feed the flock I kept hearing this little peep. And lo and behold, my silkies hatched a chick! I really wasn't expecting it, they kept setting and forgetting the eggs, but left them just in case. Well this is in my BBS pen with a Cuckoo rooster and a Black cockerel (not sure if he is even mature to mate yet). All my hens are BBS, but this chick is a creamy yellow with pink skin, beak, and very light. All my silkies have nice dark skin, lighter on the cuckoo, but definitely not bright pink! What do you think this little ones color could be? I will try to get a pic of it later, I'm on my way out right now, but figured I would post to see what you all thought first!

 

[aoxa]

Ok, this morning when I went out to feed the flock I kept hearing this little peep. And lo and behold, my silkies hatched a chick! I really wasn't expecting it, they kept setting and forgetting the eggs, but left them just in case. Well this is in my BBS pen with a Cuckoo rooster and a Black cockerel (not sure if he is even mature to mate yet). All my hens are BBS, but this chick is a creamy yellow with pink skin, beak, and very light. All my silkies have nice dark skin, lighter on the cuckoo, but definitely not bright pink! What do you think this little ones color could be? I will try to get a pic of it later, I'm on my way out right now, but figured I would post to see what you all thought first!

Cuckoo would be the father.

He would be heteroztgous for black skin (only one copy).

Fibromelanotic: autosomal gene, this means there are two copies of this gene in a pure silkie rooster, your zizzle silkie rooster my look pure on all silkie aspects but he is lacking another copy of this gene, he is a Fibromelanotic heterozygote(Fm/fm+)

 

[dwegg]

Hello all silkie lovers!  I have a silkie behavior question for you. 

I have a lone silkie roo that is the only survivor from our mixed hatch that we did in April.  He has been raised with all LF birds and he is fairly large and I would say about the same size as my LF Araucan pullet.  He tries his best to mate with our Salmon Favorelle pullets and has some success with our Houdan pullet.  We purchased a couple of banty cochins to add to the flock as we thought he might be more successful in his mating attempts with them.  They have been in the flock for over 6 weeks now and he simply ignores them so that (so far) has been unsuccessful. 

Now to my main question/observations:  When the flock goes to roost in the evening,  he is the last one "in bed".  We built a platform in the house for him to perch on at night and he uses it but I have watched as they all roost and he is the last one in and he paces back and forth and round and round and looks like he wants up on the roosts with the big birds.  The lowest rung of the ladder is probably knee high and he can't/won't jump up to it.  We did catch him on it one night when we went to tuck in and thought he figured it out but have not found him there again. 

Do you think he wants to roost with the big birds because he is lonely?  I had hoped the banties would take to him and join him on his perch but they prefer the roost as well. 

Should we make him a ladder that goes all the way to the ground so he can walk up?  All suggestions, thoughts, ideas welcome.  Thanks!

I had a silkie roo in with 14 LF girls and he would go and roost up high with them all right in the middle of them all...but that was because I have gradual 2x4 roosts that step up and is easy for all my LF girls to get up and down and the highest is only about 4 ft high...so yes he does want to follow his girls up to bed...