Silkie thread!

[chickeneer45]

I am just starting with silkies and have a
White hen and a partridge hen. I also have a porcelain chick and eight silkie eggs: three in the incubator and five under my broody hen. I am slowly turning my flock into a purely silkie flock, but as of now I have no silkie roosters. I am just trying to get the most colorful silkies-- not show quality. So all of the silkie eggs are of different colors and are hatching in two weeks.

 

[PeepSqueak]

I got the idea for these feeders from one of these threads. They work well.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: The bird in the first photo is likely Lav+/lav, not lav/lav. Possibly the second boy, too

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: FWIW, the largest lot in my neighborhood is about 1.7 acres; a few are as small as .4 acre. In general, nearly 2/3 of the lots are an acre, with the other 1/3 about half an acre. And while I definitely have more roos than anyone else, there are plenty of roosters are all over the neighborhood. The 5 goats in back of us are louder than my boys.

 

[alamb1]

Reserve Grand Champion

 

[PsycoPeep]

Great job, alamb1!

Love all those Show Girl model pics!




Question; what colors can you breed to a partridge? At this time I have a splash roo, black hen, and a partridge hen. (Okay, they're only 3-4 mos old). And then the egg colors I just got a buff, red, splash, paint, porcelean, and gray. I really don't even want the partridge, so if someone comes along who wants her I'd sell her, but I am also going to keep a seperate pen just for egg layers. I'm just going to throw miscl girls in there that I don't really want to sell off or that I don't want to go out and buy [yet another] roo just for them, and then we can just eat the eggs from that pen and/or sell them as fresh farm eggs, as I don't plan to put a roo in w/that bunch.

 

[388chick]

Whatcha think? Pullet or roo? 21 weeks old...tiny and acts like a girl...any one see anything different? 'It' has had a haircut as my chickens play outside in a fenced, but not covered yard . Thanks!

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Whatcha think? Pullet or roo? 21 weeks old...tiny and acts like a girl...any one see anything different? 'It' has had a haircut as my chickens play outside in a fenced, but not covered yard

. Thanks!

Hmm... that's a tough one. The red comb makes me think boy but being so old it should be bigger. I'm going to say a pullet but with the wrong color comb. She's adorable =D

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Great job, alamb1!

Love all those Show Girl model pics!




Question; what colors can you breed to a partridge? At this time I have a splash roo, black hen, and a partridge hen. (Okay, they're only 3-4 mos old). And then the egg colors I just got a buff, red, splash, paint, porcelean, and gray. I really don't even want the partridge, so if someone comes along who wants her I'd sell her, but I am also going to keep a seperate pen just for egg layers. I'm just going to throw miscl girls in there that I don't really want to sell off or that I don't want to go out and buy [yet another] roo just for them, and then we can just eat the eggs from that pen and/or sell them as fresh farm eggs, as I don't plan to put a roo in w/that bunch.

Blue, black and splash is a standard colour grouping that will produce all recognized varieties and not mess up the genetics. Theoretically buff and red could go together, but you could end up with patchy buffs rather and a smooth even colour. Paints can be paired with blacks; porcelains with porcelains (or lavenders if they only have one copy of lav), grey with grey, partridge with partridge.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Going on the comb, I would say cockerel. It's a pretty large comb for a pullet, as well as being pretty red.