Silkie thread!

[BuckNBark Farm]

I love his poses! Thank you for aharing, so much personality!

Thanks!

-Pam Pittman

 

[Fancychooklady]

This is what I was wondering too. Fancychooklady raises a lot of Silkies so she's pretty knowledgeable just from experience alone. But I too wonder how you can tell what the light color chicks will be?

I only have experience with the colours I have. From my experience anything that starts off in my flock as smutty, grey or yellow eventually becomes white. I was so excited when this one fluffed up, but it feathered out to white.

This is her now.

 

[Nevaschickens]

I only have experience with the colours I have. From my experience anything that starts off in my flock as smutty, grey or yellow eventually becomes white. I was so excited when this one fluffed up, but it feathered out to white.

This is her now.

She's beautiful! I was told by the breeder that she will be grey/gray. Those pictures aren't the best. I posted more. Either way she will be beautiful!

 

[RockerHen]

5 month old pullet. She didn't look like much, but she's really filled out in the past month.



A new turkey poult-with his four mothers. There's 7 more turkey eggs to go still shared underneath all 4.

 

[heirloomorps]

5 month old pullet. She didn't look like much, but she's really filled out in the past month.

Wow, she is gorgeous!

 

[bantambury]

5 month old pullet. She didn't look like much, but she's really filled out in the past month.



A new turkey poult-with his four mothers. There's 7 more turkey eggs to go still shared underneath all 4.

from what I have seen of your birds from avatars and these pictures, your birds are beautiful! would you mind telling where they are from? I wanted some show silkies from catdance...she has nice birds, and I adore them! I love your birds too!

 

[RockerHen]

Quote: Thank you! I got most of mine from a local breeder here in SC, Sparkle City Silkies. She has a website, but her FB page is more active. A few others I have gotten from other local breeders, but they don't have 'breeder' names. The pullet is hatched from the original stock I got. Two of the broody ones in the picture are 'originals', they're gorgeous in condition. I trim a 'path' in their crests/beards when they turn broody so they can see what they're doing haha. The center silkie hen is in a few of my avatars; she's a wonderful girl, but loves raising chicks, so most of the time she looks a bit rough.
Here she is in prime condition:

 

[subhanalah]

You make me want to spy on these little baby eggs! I wonder if they get used to handling when you candle with a gentle hand and they can feel the routine. When they hatch, they feel your hand picking them up similar to the motion of when they were in the egg? Maybe that's where imprinting can really go, if people take it there? They say baby humans have senses before they are born, why not animals before they hatch? Maybe part of the reason that some people (maybe not hatcheries, but they have it down to a science...regular old job's don't have that, but they do have the compassion in their hearts to really show these animals that you are having a physical contact between you an it, give it something to remember from when it felt safe inside the egg.

Am I possibly onto something here? What ever we lack in nature's brooding as an anatomical phenomena, we make up for in love and compassion and nurturing of other things.

Take a look at call ducks. People pay close attention, they realize they probably made mistakes, and realize it's up to them to assist in whatever way you can because you made a promise to that little life when you chose to put it into the incubator. Home hatchets are definitely not top of the line technology, but they are 110% heart and that will get you very far.

Now I recognize that there are some people out there that ain't got no time fa dat, and that's okay, you have chosen different priorities, but that doesn't make you any better or worse than me. Different have different agendas and different goals with all of this, but we are still on the same side here. We all want what's best for the birds, no matter what the agenda.

 

[flocknfoal]

I only have experience with the colours I have. From my experience anything that starts off in my flock as smutty, grey or yellow eventually becomes white. I was so excited when this one fluffed up, but it feathered out to white.

I don't have a lot of experience, but I have some splash, white, and lavender chicks and they all look very similar. In good light I can tell the lavenders, but I've had splash and white that look like that have some yellow and/or gray areas. Once they start to feather out the whites clearly have white feathers and the splash seem to have a slightly gray hue with lighter and darker areas.

She's beautiful! I was told by the breeder that she will be grey/gray. Those pictures aren't the best. I posted more. Either way she will be beautiful!

The official US standard for the "gray" silkie, from my understanding, is basically a 'silver partridge' so they have chipmunk stripes like other partridge chicks. I've never seen a solid color chick turn out to be a shade of gray, but again I'm not all that experienced. As you said, she's pretty whatever color she turns out to be.

 

[ihavechickens2]

went out and took some pics today( even though everyone of my adult hens have went broody), but my silkies aren't nearly the quality as the recently posted are.





smooth sizzle. any ideas on color???/

two chicks a silkie/cochin hatched.