Silkie thread!

[aaswanson]

I may be interested in your hatching eggs from the pure silkies. I love that white one =P i want to experiment with hatching eggs anyways. Its one reason i got silkies, for brooding. I have 6 easter egger pullets and 4 roos. I had 3 pure silver laced wyandottes (2 pullets, 1 roo) but i lost the roo and a pullet to what i assume was coccidiosis but i think i have it under control now. Wondering if i should look for full grown ones to replace the ones i lost or go with a hatchery for day old chicks and raise them myself... don't know of anyone with SLW right now though

I am picking up a SLW bantam this Friday....don't know if your looking for reg sized or if you'd be interested in bantam, but i believe
She still has more left and are just old enough to sex- I am in NH too

 

[peepblessed]

Got my girls today!!!

Your girls are just lovely.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Okay, so I got these new beautiful girls yesterday and will be adding my blue pair in with them. So I will have one roo and 5 girls. One of the girls is laying and older than the rest. I would like to let her hatch her own babies if she wants to. I have never done this before, so I need some help. Can I keep them all together with babies? I don't have the space to have multiple coops ( I already have a large fowl coop and now a silkie one). Will my roo hurt the babies? I was told she lays every day-ish and that she was bred yesterday. No eggs yet today, probably from the move, but I don't want to eat a fertilized silkie egg. I have no issue with large foel eggs, but silkie eggs are like puppies.

I just want a harmonious coop, without a lot of fuss. Lol


...........the kids...............


Booker my roo

Hi, your girls are very nice. If you let them hatch babies they should be fine with each other and with the rooster, Silkies are one of the nicest for taking care of the chicks and not picking on them, even the males. You can leave them all in one coop.

However, I do have a question. Are you planning on crossing the Blue rooster with the White girls? In case you don't know- that is not normally done, because the White birds may be hiding all sorts of colors (they need two copies of White to be white, one copy and they are whatever is hiding under that White, could be anything). You may not get accepted colors in their chicks. Also - you will have to band the chicks so you know they each carry one copy of white - or the next generation will be very confusing.

While it is fine to work with what you have, I just wanted you to be aware that Blue and White are not normally crossed.

 

[kabhyper1]

Hi, your girls are very nice.  If you let them hatch babies they should be fine with each other and with the rooster, Silkies are one of the nicest for taking care of the chicks and not picking on them, even the males.  You can leave them all in one coop.

However, I do have a question.  Are you planning on crossing the Blue rooster with the White girls?  In case you don't know-  that is not normally done, because the White birds may be hiding all sorts of colors (they need two copies of White to be white, one copy and they are whatever is hiding under that White, could be anything).  You may not get accepted colors in their chicks.  Also - you will have to band the chicks so you know they each carry one copy of white - or the next generation will be very confusing.

While it is fine to work with what you have, I just wanted you to be aware that Blue and White are not normally crossed.

I'm not planning on doing much breeding/ hatching. If I do get chicks, they will be for pets. Although some of my girls are sq, I am staying small and I know some people that want pet silkies in my area. All of my silkies aside of the one hen are juvies, and are not laying or mating. I just like to look at them, and if I get a happy accident that's okay. I wouldn't try to pass them off for something they aren't. Booker is my pet and my only male silkie, I don't want to leave him in the large fowl coop. Thank you for your advice though. Always like hearing new things. Also the bottom blue in the pics is my girl Ashes.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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They can be sold as pets easily, and if somebody wants to breed them you can just tell them the chicks carry Recessive White. You may not be PLANNING on doing much hatching - but I bet your girls are....

Nice Blue girl too.

 

[kabhyper1]

They can be sold as pets easily, and if somebody wants to breed them you can just tell them the chicks carry Recessive White.  You may not be PLANNING on doing much hatching - but I bet your girls are....

Nice Blue girl too.

Thank you. The breeder I got them from said the blues come from splash female/ white male crosses. The whites are white/white. They come from all white breeding. The breeder she got hers from specializes in whites and blacks. So I know my white girls come from continuous white/white breeding. My blues are a first generation splash/white x. If that makes any sense.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Aaaah, then you already have Blue birds carrying one copy of Recessive White - and you don't have odd colors under there. Yes, that does make sense. Your Blues - if you are including your rooster - will throw both White and Blue and Black chicks. Much cleaner than the usual Recessive White over who knows what.

Be sure to post pictures of the chicks when (notice not "if") your girls decide to go broody and hatch. Maybe next year - but you never know. My first Silkie girl started laying - laid about 5 eggs and promptly went broody... at CHRISTMAS!

 

[kabhyper1]

Aaaah, then you already have Blue birds carrying one copy of  Recessive White - and you don't have odd colors under there.  Yes, that does make sense.  Your Blues - if you are including your rooster - will throw both White and Blue and Black chicks.   Much cleaner than the usual Recessive White over who knows what.

Be sure to post pictures of the chicks when (notice not "if") your girls decide to go broody and hatch.  Maybe next year - but you never know.  My first Silkie girl started laying - laid about 5 eggs and promptly went broody... at CHRISTMAS!

Aww! I can't wait for little cotton balls. I named my white girls Luna, Suki, Dolly and Snow. Luna has a huge poof lol. So will my colors be acceptable then? So I could have some that are sq? I just expected pet quality. Because of what i heard about blue white breeding.

 

[Codyneal11]

Sorry it's not a silkie. But my b.o hatched this chick and its head is 180 degrees backward. Is their any thing I can do? Please help

 

[ChickNmamma]

Sorry it's not a silkie. But my b.o hatched this chick and its head is 180 degrees backward. Is their any thing I can do? Please help

You could take it over to the emergency section and post a new thread asking for help - but I think that is called wry neck and is caused by vitamin deficiencies. Go to the store and buy Pol-V-Sol WITHOUT IRON - its a baby vitamin. give the chick a drop of it twice a day - hopefully it will put its head back where it belongs. You will have to help it eat and drink until it does. It may take a week...