Silkie thread!

[ChickNmamma]

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That's a cute name. I have a "Cruella" too - but she (

) is a Sizzle (or a Frizzle - still confused on that one) and her shoulder feathers a bit ago made it look like that cloak that Cruella wore..


And those rules were made to be broken.. pet chickens are too much fun!

 

[PaintedFeathers]

hehe

 

[ChickNmamma]

hehe

Cute. You got his chest right too!

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Cute. You got his chest right too!

haha! Yeah it was just a rough sketch I had some fun with. I'm trying to draw a logo for my farm.

 

[Jharper]

My new silkie bantam I got for show last week.

Haha she's like I have my eyes on you!!

To bad she can't see that good. I have to wet my hands and push her fluff up so she can see for a few minutes before it dries! Haha!!
She needs a bath. I might give her one tomorrow. She has lost some feathers on her tell from getting to close to my hens with their chicks. She can't see where she walks so she's lost quite a few! Haha poor girl. They will grow back though.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Paint X blue should give blue paint and paint (and possibly blues and blacks). I see no way to get partridge or silver partridge from that breeding. (unless hidden, recessive genes collect together)

There are two white genes: recessive (c) and dominant (I). Paint is thought to be dominant white; normal white silkies are recessive. These are separate genes, and you will not get one as a mutation of the other: they are on separate chromosomes. However, a bird can be BOTH recessive and dominant white, and with the breeding of regular recessive white silkies to paints you can and will have this confusion become more common.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

We have nine silkies. Two of them are almost 4 months old now, but they are not related. We've been thinking they are both boys. One of them has been crowing for a least a month now but the other is not crowing yet. It's comb is bigger than the other pullets but smaller than the cockerel of the same age that is crowing, and it's "fluff" is not as round as the other pullets. I've read that some lines mature most slowly than others. This one is hatched from eggs that came from Catdance.

What do you think - slow maturing cockerel or pullet?

Looks like a cockerel to me

 

[ChickNmamma]

My new silkie bantam I got for show last week.

Haha she's like I have my eyes on you!!

To bad she can't see that good. I have to wet my hands and push her fluff up so she can see for a few minutes before it dries! Haha!!
She needs a bath. I might give her one tomorrow. She has lost some feathers on her tell from getting to close to my hens with their chicks. She can't see where she walks so she's lost quite a few! Haha poor girl. They will grow back though.

She is cute - but I don't know how she can have her eyes on anything.

I understand you can trim the fluff around her eyes - from her beard - to help her to see better. Further back on the Silkie and Genetics thread they were talking about that - and it can be done even for birds being shown. They really do better when they can see where their food is...

Beardless birds with huge poofs see just fine down and to the side - its those beard feathers that block vision.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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[Jharper]

She is cute - but I don't know how she can have her eyes on anything. 

I understand you can trim the fluff around her eyes - from her beard - to help her to see better.  Further back on the Silkie and Genetics thread they were talking about that - and it can be done even for birds being shown.  They really do better when they can see where their food is...

Beardless birds with huge poofs see just fine down and to the side - its those beard feathers that block vision.

I was making a joke b/c she REALLY can't see that well! Hahaha!