Silkie thread!

[kmollyhughes]

This is my best little brooder. But I'm down to one white hen and one white roo. So I've started collecting her eggs.

I'm in the same boat. Lol. Need more silkies. Have 1 sitting on Marans eggs, 2 co-parenting chicks, 1 got a chick last night that a broody Marans attacked right after she hatched it...my last two silkies aren't laying or brooding. Come on girls...kick it up a notch! Lol Hopefully one goes broody soon so I can order silkie eggs!!
My hubby says get an incubator...but that's asking for trouble. Lol He needs to contain me!!!!!!!!!!!! 50+ chickens and he tells me to buy an incubator?!? ...hope he's ready for this.......................................................

 

[Fancychooklady]

Lol, I left the bator in the box this spring. I found that my hatch rate was not so good. Much better under a fluffy bum.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Cindy Lou Who is growing up! She has started laying

Here she is all squeaky clean after her spa time today.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Cindy Lou Who is growing up! She has started laying Here she is all squeaky clean after her spa time today.

Awe

 

[Suzierd]

Cindy Lou Who is growing up! She has started laying Here she is all squeaky clean after her spa time today.

She is so cute

 

[chickee]

My babies are about 10 weeks old now. They are so sweet

She is VERY tame and sweet. Not sure about her color. She is on the yellow side.

She is my favorite/pick pullet.

This is the lavender chick that was upside down and I helped hatch. She was so tiny but is now catching up.

This blue girl looks black in person. Weird how the camera shows her as a lighter blue. She has one curled toe. She is VERY friendly and squats already when petted!!

This is my second pick porcelain rooster. I think he is going to be a pretty boy once his head feathers come in. those pin feathers make him look messy right now

This little girl has me worried. She is small (same size as the lavender pullet) seems too mellow and light weight.

This porcelain boy wouldn't stand for his picture to show off his nice profile. Unfortunately he has a crossed beak

He will be free to a pet home.

I was so sure this was a boy, but turns out it is a girl

This is my favorite/pick rooster. I am a sucker for his dark orange head feathers. Look at his bright blue ear lobes! He has a large crest that was getting in his eyes causing one to weep, so he got a trim today before his picture was taken.

 

[kabhyper1]

Well so far the girls have done okay in the house. I kept the room kinda dark today so they could adjust. This evening took the nesting boxes out, candled the eggs, got broody pooed on

while trimming Snows horribly long nails, made them hay nests for them, and they settled back in just fine. Snow is super attentive. Ashes is pretending to know what she is doing because she is "special". Completely inattentive to her eggs, and just wants to sit and grunt. Anywhere I move her she sits. I put her on the coffee table and she growled at me like she still had eggs under her. I have to put her on the nest. I put an egg in front of her and she just sat there. I did the same thing with Snow and she immediately tucks. So Ashes may end up just being a companion and Snow gets her eggs. This is Ashes first time, Snows second.

 

[ottbjumper06]

I hope you guys don't mind if I pop in and ask a question. I'm picking up a pair of 6 month old porcelain (sp?) silkies. When do silkies usually start to lay? Thank you!

Also, this may sound vague but how often do silkies go broody? I'm getting them so that they can sit on Iowa Blue eggs without me firing up my incubators

 

[sillycmoy]

So I have a mystery Rooster outside because I'm getting fertile eggs. I'm dumbfounded by who it is, and everyone has stated that everyone looks like a pullet, and they were sexed pullets except for the Silkies. Now I had 4 Silkies all hatched May 1, 2013. The other 2 were double the size and started crowing around 9 weeks of age, and so I re-homed them. And these 2 have always been smaller, and no peeps out of them. Please, please tell me its not one of them. Everyone is banking that it has to be one of them. I just want to cry.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

So I have a mystery Rooster outside because I'm getting fertile eggs. I'm dumbfounded by who it is, and everyone has stated that everyone looks like a pullet, and they were sexed pullets except for the Silkies. Now I had 4 Silkies all hatched May 1, 2013. The other 2 were double the size and started crowing around 9 weeks of age, and so I re-homed them. And these 2 have always been smaller, and no peeps out of them. Please, please tell me its not one of them. Everyone is banking that it has to be one of them. I just want to cry.

Do you have other chickens in with them that could possibly be roo's? None of them really look rooish to me either... and how do you know the eggs are fertile? Also, you can watch their behavior, any roo's who are mating will call the girls over to food and may give you a glimpse of their mating dance. If not the whole dance they will side step around the others. That one would be a roo.