Silkie thread!

[CheesePoultry]

Hi! I hatched 1 white silkie chick on may 4th, 3 more are due on memorial day. i hope to show them at a 4-h show the fist week of September. Will they be mature enough?

For our 4-H shows, junior 4-H birds must be born between Jan 1st and May 1st of the current year. Senior 4-H birds must be between Jan 1st and May 1st of the previous year. You should contact your 4-H extension office to find out the rules for your area.

not by the 4-h rules by the standard

 

[mom of silkies]

I hatched out 1 pure white silkie and 4 silkie/brahma crosses. I will post pics asap!

 

[flufssilkies]

I have some silkie chicks for sale. I live in michigan. If interested please pm me

 

[MumsyIII]

New pic's of the eight week old grow out kids.

Splash, Blue Cream, and a Self Blue decided to pile together.



These two Blue Cream took time out from sparring with each other to pose. SLW chick photo bombed!

 

[silkiecuddles]

New pic's of the eight week old grow out kids.

Splash, Blue Cream, and a Self Blue decided to pile together.



These two Blue Cream took time out from sparring with each other to pose. SLW chick photo bombed!

I LOVE YOUR SILKIES!!!

 

[silkiecuddles]

Will a hen and a rooster always make the exact looking chicks? For instance, I have a a white bearded silkie hen, and a supposedly partridge rooster. Their first 3 chicks (all at different times) were the exact same colors.
Also, will whiteXwhite always make white? Because I only have two roosters now: a white silkie and the partridge silkie. And I just had 3 chicks hatch, all from silkie eggs, and one looks whitish with a lil bit of yellow, another looks whitish with buff, and another looks white but it has black speckles on its head? I'm pretty sure the mama of the last one was my bearded silkie because it has a beard.
I'll post pics soon

 

[tinkerfairy]

New pic's of the eight week old grow out kids. Splash, Blue Cream, and a Self Blue decided to pile together. These two Blue Cream took time out from sparring with each other to pose. SLW chick photo bombed!

. I'm so jealous lol beautiful

 

[WVduckchick]

New pic's of the eight week old grow out kids. Splash, Blue Cream, and a Self Blue decided to pile together. These two Blue Cream took time out from sparring with each other to pose. SLW chick photo bombed!

Beautiful!!

 

[MumsyIII]

Thank you for all the kind words. Truly.

As the mother of four grown children and five Grandchildren, patiently waiting for chicks to develop into their adult self's is easy compared to waiting for a child to talk or walk.

I enjoy each step along the way. It is lovely to witness.



A little pudgy Splash chick that just makes me smile.

 

[MumsyIII]

Will a hen and a rooster always make the exact looking chicks? For instance, I have a a white bearded silkie hen, and a supposedly partridge rooster. Their first 3 chicks (all at different times) were the exact same colors.
Also, will whiteXwhite always make white? Because I only have two roosters now: a white silkie and the partridge silkie. And I just had 3 chicks hatch, all from silkie eggs, and one looks whitish with a lil bit of yellow, another looks whitish with buff, and another looks white but it has black speckles on its head? I'm pretty sure the mama of the last one was my bearded silkie because it has a beard.
I'll post pics soon

I can't answer the first part of your question because each silkie is carrying so many genes. There is no real "exactness" to mating two individual birds together unless you know the genetic make up of those birds. It's like asking if two people will have all children look exactly alike. White recessive X white recessive always produces white chicks. White recessive X on anything else could possible give you anything. Who knows? Google the question "what do I get if I cross my white silkie with ?" You'll be reading the possibilities for days.