Silkie thread!

[702marine]

New mommy today with this early hatcher. 5 eggs to go. She took right to the baby.

 

[MumsyII]

That would be awesome if they got spots! Please post pics when their older.

All of the solid white chicks he has sired have gotten spots so far. I crossed him to bantam RIR hens and all those chicks have spots too. It's crazy spotty goodness around here.

I've heard of paints x with blues getting splash paints with dark blue and black spots. I would be thrilled if one or more of his lavender babies got spots. I will post pictures of them in a few weeks.

 

[Jharper]

Here is a picture of my main man Rhett! Does his comb look to red or is it about the right color? What about his crest. I think maybe his previous owners might have cut it off. Will it ever grow back?

That's way too red, his crest is too small also. Their skin should appear almost black or a dark navy blue, more or less a dark navy blue.

 

[Sylvester017]

New mommy today with this early hatcher. 5 eggs to go. She took right to the baby.

Silkies were born to be mothers LOL - Cute!

 

[Teila]

Silkies were born to be mothers LOL - Cute!

Yep, cannot argue with that! My 9 month old Silkie, yet to lay her first egg, adopted a Frizzle when we bought it home. Because she had lost her sister and was the only Silkie in the flock, we thought the Frizzle would be good company for her as it was only 2 months younger. It wasn't so much a friendship that developed but a mother-daughter relationship. This little Silkie pullet adores and protects her 'baby' Frizzle .. so cute!

 

[darajosami]

I have a question, I am still waiting to find out which SIlkie's my friend is giving me and I dont have a pic of the rooster but I do have pic of the rooster that she used to make the chics and I am concerned he is not a true silkie.






Does this look like a SIlkie to you? The last pic is the middle

 

[Epent12]

The place I got her said she's (Fawnzie is) a Blue Silkie but she's 11 weeks old and doesn't look like it. Do you think she is?

Fawnzie is definitely a silver laced polish

 

[AliceGee]

Another goggles hatched out the other day! I've got two now, He's so cute! Anyone know what colour it will end up being? It's a pure silkie and mum is a either a silver partridge or a dark lemon and dad is either a white or black rooster.

 

[AliceGee]

He has food and water in with him.  Should a put a heat lamp over him?    I can't find his wounds.  Should I try cutting the feathers around where there is blood?   His eyes look fine.  Right now he's sleeping with his head tucked in his wing.  He's standing up.
Will any of these work to put on his wounds?

Do you have a hot water bottle? If so fill it up & wrap it in a tea towel or something similar and put it in with him to keep him warm.

 

[MumsyII]

Last night I took my final walk around the pens making a head count and thought it funny the way one grow out pen settles down to sleep for the night. The broody hen hatched them in an old nest box (not meant for silkies) I removed her at four weeks old. They still try to pile into that same box. All thirteen of them! Hah!


The day they hatched. That one little red one is a silkie cross from a little bantam RIR that snuck an egg in there when no one was looking. She doesn't want to pile in the nest like her half siblings.

Thirteen eight week old silkie chicks. Still trying to pile into that nest every night.


She flys up six feet above the ground into a plum tree.. She has five toes each foot and feathered feet. It's her wings that get her up there. She does it from her instincts. No one taught her to roost up high. I have silkies that try to roost and some will if the perch is thick enough but most end up just piling with the crowd.