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Question for all the silkie experts on this thread. We hatched out five silkie babies, they are different colors. A few are tricolor colored, but not sure what the difference in splash and painted are? I will try to get pictures today so you can educate me!
Question for all the silkie experts on this thread. We hatched out five silkie babies, they are different colors. A few are tricolor colored, but not sure what the difference in splash and painted are? I will try to get pictures today so you can educate me!
The Elgu is amazing! I've had no trouble with predators so far as the little house they go into at night is extremely secure and is made out of really strong plastic with great ventilation! I think the only problem I've had with it is that the run was rather tricky to put together as I had to bend the wire to fit the house when I connected them but that could have just been it got bent out of shape in the mail. But other than that it's been perfect. Very easy to move around when needed I think it's the Omlet Elgu Go.
I'm no silky expert, but I do know...#2 pic is adorable!!
Do they stay in the doghouses in the pic? We have 1 silky and 1 sizzle, I put them in a tiny little house/w run from the farm store, then I find out they like to stay at ground level...so I was curious about the housing.
Though I'd tell everyone that my test run for my Sex Linked Silkie project was a success. Despite coccidiosis issues this year that took out a lot of my chicks over just a few days time, I managed to save five of the chicks I hatched from my breeding pair (Cuckoo sizzle hen, carrier of the Silkie gene, and a Red Partridge Silkie cock). I made determinations of sex based on beak and skin color at one day of age and as they've matured I've found accuracy to be 100%. I was unable to sex by the color of the down on the head, like I had expected to; it was all rather muddled gray and the crest tended to distort the spot to the point where it was hard to distinguish. However, their beaks were my saving grace; thank the Barring gene for its tendency to lighten skin. All of the females showed a pure black beak; males had a light gray and white one. Males also had lighter skin. Here they are now, at approximately 12 weeks of age. (Or thereabouts. My hatching records have disappeared into my desk drawers... somewhere).
Cockerels:
Pullets:
I'm no silky expert, but I do know...#2 pic is adorable!!
Do they stay in the doghouses in the pic? We have 1 silky and 1 sizzle, I put them in a tiny little house/w run from the farm store, then I find out they like to stay at ground level...so I was curious about the housing.
I'm concerned with one of my young silkies. She breathes with her mouth open and closes it with each breath. Her mouth is barely you open when she does this. She has no other signs of illness and none of the other chickens she's with have this problem. It's been going on for quite a while. I tried some VetRX but that didn't do anything. Could it be genetic?
I'm concerned with one of my young silkies. She breathes with her mouth open and closes it with each breath. Her mouth is barely you open when she does this. She has no other signs of illness and none of the other chickens she's with have this problem. It's been going on for quite a while. I tried some VetRX but that didn't do anything. Could it be genetic?