Silkie thread!

[ChickenLover WI]

Please in box me (pm) about hatching eggs for silkies. Want eggs want a assortment and also show girls. Need right away soon plz.

 

[Sylvester017]

Hi! I'm bidding on a silkie roo, and I'm going to ask a question to determine how high that I bid. Is this comb considered a "single comb"? I know it's not a show quality comb, just want to make sure it's not a single comb. Rest of him looks great! I've bought from her before, and the roo grew to be an awesome show quality ( a blue). She has nice birds.

Thanks!

A SC would be a single straight thinner comb going from the beak area to the top back of the head. This guy looks like he has a big walnut comb. My Partridge boy scared us with his big walnut but later I saw other boys with even bigger wider walnuts than our boy. As long as the walnut nub is at the front above the beak it's good.

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

A SC would be a single straight thinner comb going from the beak area to the top back of the head. This guy looks like he has a big walnut comb. My Partridge boy scared us with his big walnut but later I saw other boys with even bigger wider walnuts than our boy. As long as the walnut nub is at the front above the beak it's good\\\\\

Thanks so much! Hopefully, he will coming to live with me!

 

[Fancychooklady]

Thanks so much!  Hopefully, he will coming to live with me!

Pam his comb is not great. But I certainly wouldn't call it a rose comb.

 

[Fancychooklady]

For you breeders out there!   Had a lovely paint silkie hatch. Question though - it appears to have an 'extra' toe. So the required 5 on one foot and on the other foot - the required 5 plus the tiniest extra nubbin on the innermost toe.   So, here is the question - are extra or missing toes a fluke and therefore it would be ok to use this as a breeder if everything else is good? Or is this a highly inheritable trait making this chick a poor candidate to be a breeder regardless of what it looks like.

My parent stock all have the obligatory 5 toes and yet last year I hatched a 4 toe chick. It is just an anomaly in MHO.

 

[Sylvester017]

Thanks so much! Hopefully, he will coming to live with me!

He's so cute - GOOD LUCK!

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

My parent stock all have the obligatory 5 toes and yet last year I hatched a 4 toe chick. It is just an anomaly in MHO.

I hatched one with a red comb and 4 toes! That covers both topics. Also hatched another with 4 toes on one foot, 6 on the other. Which equals 10, so that counts! Not using the red comb, 4 toed roo.

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

I hatched one with a red comb and 4 toes! That covers both topics. Also hatched another with 4 toes on one foot, 6 on the other. Which equals 10, so that counts! Not using the red comb, 4 toed roo.

It doesn't really count!

Pam

 

[Sylvester017]

I hatched one with a red comb and 4 toes! That covers both topics. Also hatched another with 4 toes on one foot, 6 on the other. Which equals 10, so that counts! Not using the red comb, 4 toed roo.

You all are so fun to read! Thanks for the chuckles!

 

[minmin1258]

Thank you all for the advice about "Wry Neck". The chick was actually worse this morning but seems slightly better now. She is not eating well and I hav t dip her beak t get her t drink. She's tolerating the vitamin therapy fairly well though. She's very vocal when she's awake. I think I've spoiled her, she is always wanting held! Lol