Silkie thread!

[Lacy Blues]

Could someone please refresh my memory, I can't get on to the genetics mixer page, Splash over Black=? I just got a pair of splash for my blacks and forgot what they produce... Thanks!

Splash over black will make blue, if your black is not dominant.

 

[mimi14]

Can anyone tell me if my 71/2 week old partridge silkie is a roo or pullet by this pictures? I am hoping a pullet but fearing not.

 

[mimi14]

Can anyone tell me if my 71/2 week old partridge silkie is a roo or pullet by this pictures? I am hoping a pullet but fearing not.

 

[Aria]

JUST ORDERED MY FIRST SILKIES!!! SHOULD BE HERE AT THE END OF THE MONTH

SUPER....I have been looking in New York State. Where are yours coming from?
Do you know anyone in New York State that raises and sells Silkies. Thanks Aria

 

[Suzierd]

I never had luck leaving them in the coop, always pull one of my broody girls and section of an area large enough in my porch and let my broody girl raise them for a few weeks

Well I put a rabbit cage in the back of the coop and choose Sassy to raise the peep since she did all the sitting, made a nice nest put some eggs that she was sitting on in the nest even tho I don't think any of the Silkie eggs are firtel none are hatching. I gave her the EE egg cause she just kept trying to hatch eggs wouldn't give up. My daughter has some eggs in a homemade incubator out of a ice chest. I will be surprised if any hatch but if they do the lonely peep will get siblings. I have two Buff Orpingtons chicks I got from Coastal in the house but they are a lot bigger then this little peep and I don't know if they would be nice to the little guy. So cute!
I think it will be better separated with one mom, I was worried they would be to busy fighting over who got to sit on the baby then teaching it to eat. Plus I don't have any reason to think the Roo would hurt it but you never know. I hope and pray its a girl so I can keep it! Any thoughts on the BO moving in with them? Too Riskey on what mom would do? Or what big peeps would do?

 

[BScott03]

SUPER....I have been looking in New York State. Where are yours coming from?
Do you know anyone in New York State that raises and sells Silkies. Thanks Aria

I actually live on Oklahoma. I ordered my Barred Rocks from a Hatchery here in OK but they don't have Silkies. I ended up ordering my Silkies from Ideal Hatchery in Texas. I've heard lots of good things about them!

 

[RustyHen]

The forth chick looks like a dark silver partridge to me. Here are a couple pictures of what it might look like as it gets older:




What color do you call the fourth picture? I have a chick hatch like that and I don't know what to call it.

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Very pretty!

 

[peepblessed]

Another picture of bama

Very pretty!

My broody Silkie Hatched out a EE chick and I decided to let them raise it, hoping nothing will happen. I just didn't have the heart to take it from them. I have two hens looking after it. Do you think the Rooster will be nice to it? I put food and water right by the nest in the coop do you think it will eat and find the food ok, I worry about the litte guy.

The chick will likely be fine. My roos are great with chicks, but the broodies can be really mean and deadly to rest of the flock especially juveniles. I have heard of roos killing chicks. So that is another risk.

Hi I have silkie that I thought looks a bit different from the others like it is a lot less energetic than my other chickens and it doesn't really do much does anything look or sound wrong with it

When mine get real quiet like that, I trim around their eyes. Often they can't see well so they just sit around.

Could someone please refresh my memory, I can't get on to the genetics mixer page, Splash over Black=? I just got a pair of splash for my blacks and forgot what they produce... Thanks!

All blue.

The way the Blue gene works in a breeding can be broken down as follows:
1) Blue x Blue: This will produce 25% black, 50% blue, 25% splash.
2) Black x Blue: Produces 50% black and 50% blue.
3) Black x Splash: You'll get 100% blue.
4) Blue x Splash: Produces 50% blue and 50% splash.
5) Splash x Splash: This will give you 100% Splash.
6) Black x black: 100% black

Can anyone tell me if my 71/2 week old partridge silkie is a roo or pullet by this pictures? I am hoping a pullet but fearing not.

I can't tell what the actual coloring is here. Looks red in one picture and more golden in the other. Males start getting a lot of red on their wings at about 9 weeks.

 

[mimi14]

This is my other 71/2 week old silkie I am questioning sex? After uploading picture I noticed the waddles. Any opinions!!

 

[mimi14]

Very pretty!
The chick will likely be fine. My roos are great with chicks, but the broodies can be really mean and deadly to rest of the flock especially juveniles. I have heard of roos killing chicks. So that is another risk.
When mine get real quiet like that, I trim around their eyes. Often they can't see well so they just sit around.
All blue.

The way the Blue gene works in a breeding can be broken down as follows:

1) Blue x Blue: This will produce 25% black, 50% blue, 25% splash.

2) Black x Blue: Produces 50% black and 50% blue.

3) Black x Splash: You'll get 100% blue.

4) Blue x Splash: Produces 50% blue and 50% splash.

5) Splash x Splash: This will give you 100% Splash.

6) Black x black: 100% black
I can't tell what the actual coloring is here. Looks red in one picture and more golden in the other. Males start getting a lot of red on their wings at about 9 weeks.

No red mostly golden I will keep an eye on the red to see if its coming through in the next coupld of weeks!