Silkie thread!

[Rocky64]

I bought a bunch of feed store silkies a couple of weeks ago.  They all appear to be coming in white despite their fluff being varying colors (I thought one was going to be a blue or splash), all white except they have very faint tinges of color on the tips of their covert wing feathers.  Not like a splash, really, like this but much more dilute and over white instead of blue.  I hope someone has thoughts on this.  I thought about uploading pics, but I do not think it would show very well.  As of now, I am just chalking it up to messy hatchery breeding but you'd think they could get white right.

White is a little more complex to get than you may think; breeding a white to a white could give you almost any color. And plus, as you said, hatcheries don't really think about quality.

 

[Rowsdower]

One of them, I thought would be a buff, has what appears to be both buff and blue/gray splashes over white. Oh well, I am just sort of anxious to see how they turn out. I won't be keeping them anyway.

 

[flockofbantams]

I think your white with splotches of blue and buff might be a porcelain. And don't always count,on the feather color as young birds to be the final,color after they molt. It can be completly different.

I currently have a sooty palomino color chick that is not a white and not a buff it have splitches of lavender. Its feathers are coming in a light cream color. I'm hoping I have a porcelain but I have no idea, I'm excited to see what I got

 

[Rowsdower]

I guess that means I can stop pulling tail fluff to see if I can get a glimpse of the tips of the tail feathers. lol

 

[emvickrey]

I wouldn't mind if mine turned out to be red or a darker buff. I don't have any that color. I'll just add them to my second sizzle pen if they are girls that is.

 

[SilkieNation]

Beautiful! I just got three hens 1.3-3 years for my old rooster. I'm looking forward to the weather warming a bit so that I can wash the egg off of their faces from eating eggs at their previous home. Maybe I should just take them inside? What's the best way to do this? My roo is 9 and I was going to give him away or put him down when my last hen died, but I couldn't do it. Here's a picture of the new family.

 

[Rowsdower]

This is what I am talking about.

Please forgive the dirty fingernails. LOL. I just cleaned three brooders.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

They're lovely!

You could bring them in and wash their faces, and give them a quick blow dry before you stick them back out. Or, just leave it and let them clean each other up

 

[flockofbantams]

Beautiful! I just got three hens 1.3-3 years for my old rooster. I'm looking forward to the weather warming a bit so that I can wash the egg off of their faces from eating eggs at their previous home. Maybe I should just take them inside? What's the best way to do this? My roo is 9 and I was going to give him away or put him down when my last hen died, but I couldn't do it. Here's a picture of the new family.

Beautiful girls and that rooster is gorgeous!!!!

 

[BonRae67]

Beautiful! I just got three hens 1.3-3 years for my old rooster. I'm looking forward to the weather warming a bit so that I can wash the egg off of their faces from eating eggs at their previous home. Maybe I should just take them inside? What's the best way to do this? My roo is 9 and I was going to give him away or put him down when my last hen died, but I couldn't do it. Here's a picture of the new family.

So glad you decided to keep him and get him some girls. A wet rag may get the egg off them. If you wet them much, use a bkow dryer to dry them. Then they can go back outside. Good luck with the beautiful new family.