Silkie thread!

[aaswanson]

Awwww congrats on your new chicks!!! So glad you woke up in time to save Faith! Hope all the little ones are doing well.

Well for those that want a update Panellapee (Paint) is doing great with her braces on, can walk around and eat great I'm very pleased.
Before

After

Faith- faith was the egg that took so long I was very worried ( not to confuse with Hope that didn't make it) everyone left had made it out of the egg except fait and she had pipped before them. She had zipped about 3/4 inch at 11:00pm and I went to bed I woke at Three in the morning went to check on her and noticed she had not made any progress at all. This is going on forty some hours I was very concerned and reached in and picked her up and no movement no noise poked a bit at her and nothing, I thought she was dead so broke the egg on off her and she moved and gave a weak peep, I found that she was breach in the egg and was getting shrink wrapped. I do believe she would not have made it till the morning if I wouldn't have got her out. Anyway here she is her fluff still looks icky because of the shrink wrap

Next to Mumsy

She's starting to eat on her own this morning thanks to Mumsy showing her. She's so funny she usually stands really tall reminds me of a penguin. With her head held high.

 

[Suzierd]

I hate klingons!

Hopefully the cool down area works.  I think feeding mine fermented feed also helped - they used to squat to go and it would shoot down past their feathers.  Sure kept their hineys clean though!

I hate Klingons too! Crossing my fingers it just goes away.

 

[Suzierd]

Awwww congrats on your new chicks!!! So glad you woke up in time to save Faith! Hope all the little ones are doing well.

Thanks Aaswanson, Faith continues to improve.

 

[JenS9]

Someone tell me this is a girl?

 

[Urchin]

Um.. Statement above in red: it does that. I could use about 4 more pens

Did the Professor ever give you an egg? Or crow? I remember h/she did really well with the littles you raised.

I really like the markings on Pinto - that is neat.

I wonder if it is possible White Flame is Wheaten (E^Wh) based and has the pigment leakage in the skin because of it? I believe I remember reading about the E^Wh birds having lighter comb, wattles and skin from Buff breeding information, I think it would be the same even if it is hiding under that Bl/Bl. They are also known for having less smut and black in the Buffs - maybe it washed out the Splash coloration? I did manage to get the chicken calculator to show a totally White Splashed Wheaten bird and a Blue Wheaten female with a good dose of melinisers, so that may be what you have. Throwing E^Wh into the BBS mix made for some interesting children - some looked "normal" and some.. well.. it could explain some Gray or Silver Partridges showing up from those pens and some interesting Black boys with white wings, neck and saddles as the Wheaten characteristics came to fore.- - All this information was gleaned from the Show Silkie thread.. amazing amount of information over there if you take the time to read it all.. AND cut an paste when you find good tidbits!

The Professor's only four months old now. She hatched April 3rd. All my silkies are six months old or younger, so genders are just educated guesses based on head poufs, behavior, wattle and comb development. The Professor did babysit the brooder chicks when we integrated them into the flock -- first the Three Amigos and then the Fab Five (yes, we have chicken cliques. The Three always hang out together, the Five stick together and then there's the Main Flock). She didn't baby the Fab Five very long because the Five includes Tails the cochin rooster, who very much acts like a rooster, and didn't want anyone else messing with his little flock, thank you very much.

Although one of the silkies in the Five is male because I have heard one faint, hoarse, crow one day and it wasn't Tails' voice.

Pinto is a mess. Literally. She's the Most Disgusting Chicken Ever -- poops on herself,so badly, she doesn't have a tail because I've ended up pulling out feathers trying to clean her up, is dirty from head to toe, is kind of a runt for her age. But she's fun. Very spunky and prefers to run with the big chickens rather than hang with the silkies.

Thanks for the Wheaten information. I'll have to read up on it.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Now, when breeding blue to blue and getting some splash, how does the splash get washed out in some bloodlines? I have 3 splash and 1 blue that I hatched out from some eggs I bought, but the splash's just look grey. there isn't much splashing going on LOL

what makes that happen?

Are you sure they are splash and not light blues? Expression of the blue gene can vary significantly. Both with blues and splashes.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I have a white silkie hen and a buff silkie rooster and the hen had a clutch of eggs this past spring and they are a little older now and there momma hen went broody again but anyway the 3 that hatched there is a white silkie and a buff silkie but then theres a silkie that looks just like a partridge silkie but can that happen from a white and buff??? I thought it was weird

Genetically the white could be anything. If you got white chicks, you know the buff has one copy of recessive white (C+/c). Sonce you got both a buff and a partridge, the white probably has one copy of the pattern gene.

 

[chicken farmer]

Genetically the white could be anything. If you got white chicks, you know the buff has one copy of recessive white (C+/c). Sonce you got both a buff and a partridge, the white probably has one copy of the pattern gene.

So could it be a mix or is it for sure a partridge?

 

[ChickNmamma]

Someone tell me this is a girl?

Ok, Its a girl.

There is a 50% chance I am right.

What age, closeup of the comb, picture without it stretching out to look for something.. that would help us guess.

I was watching my juvie coop today. I have one definite boy and one ??? both around 7 weeks old. There was something making noise in the neighbors yard and I was behind the cage so they weren't looking at me. The boy stood up almost straight - I have never actually seen one of the silkies do that. The ??? was right beside him, and stood up - but not all the way straight. Chest was still out in front and lower, even though it was stretching as tall as it could to look. I then and there decided the ??? was a girl!! HAH!

But I won't ask anybody on the thread to tell me its a girl

 

[JenS9]

Here is another one of her. She doesn't have any comb of note, just a flush beak. I'm calling her "Blue" because she has the blue leg band on. LOL.






(on the far right)



I also had a couple others I was curious about that, I think are boys....

Here is Pink:









And Purple:







Pink and Purple have the biggest combs out of all of mine so far. Their tail puff have more of an.. arc shape rather than a dome shape too, if that makes a difference.