Silkie thread!

[darkbluespace]

No, definitely not partridge . I'd say grey or blue depending on her parentage.

Hmmm, she is from a lavender rooster, not sure about hen. She was a chipmunk chick but she is mostly tan color now.

 

[LilJoe]

Hello, I have three silkies and on of my lavender orpington roosters always picks on the blue one, Crooked, by grabbing his neck until the poor silkie gets free. Could he be trying to dominate "him" or is he about to mount "her"?

 

[Fancychooklady]

Hmmm, she is from a lavender rooster, not sure about hen. She was a chipmunk chick but she is mostly tan color now.

Must be the lighting in the pic, or my iPad.
From what your describing , sounds like blue partridge sneaking in. Look at the base of the fluffy crown , the base of the feathers should be black in partridge birds.

 

[Nanas Silkies]

Im not sure what the parents are, the breeder i am getting them from has a mixed pin i have boughten some before from her and they where paint, splash, and blue and black, and a light and dark partidge chicks. The ones she had in her pen that i cpuld see where a silver and whiyeish black hen and roo an white hen and roo and some small black chicks in her pen?

Sorry if anythung is spelt wrong my phone is cracked Xd

 

[Lacey1988]

Red Pyle Cockerel

 

[AmandaVirginia]

Red Pyle Cockerel

WOW! He's absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

 

[kjscortez]

Ok guys,I had a silkie and a sizzle...today I brought home 2 more silkies.
Should I make them a place to sleep in the floor of the run? Our bantam coop is about 24" off the ground, and none of them know about going UP to roost I guess?
I don't know much about silkies except they are calm.

(The silkie and sizzle have been sharing a very small coop with a serama pair, but they DO go up into the house area at night, which is about 18-24" from the ground.)

 

[RubyNala97]

Ok guys,I had a silkie and a sizzle...today I brought home 2 more silkies.
Should I make them a place to sleep in the floor of the run? Our bantam coop is about 24" off the ground, and none of them know about going UP to roost I guess?
I don't know much about silkies except they are calm.

(The silkie and sizzle have been sharing a very small coop with a serama pair, but they DO go up into the house area at night, which is about 18-24" from the ground.)

Is there a ramp that goes up to the coop? I usually place them in the coop and then they figure out how to get down the ramp and usually I have to pick them up at night and place them back in the coop for awhile.

 

[kjscortez]

Ok guys,I had a silkie and a sizzle...today I brought home 2 more silkies.
Should I make them a place to sleep in the floor of the run? Our bantam coop is about 24" off the ground, and none of them know about going UP to roost I guess?
I don't know much about silkies except they are calm.

(The silkie and sizzle have been sharing a very small coop with a serama pair, but they DO go up into the house area at night, which is about 18-24" from the ground.)

Is there a ramp that goes up to the coop? I usually place them in the coop and then they figure out how to get down the ramp and usually I have to pick them up at night and place them back in the coop for awhile.

I'll try it, the man we bought the two new ones from had them in a lean-to type house, and ours is a house off the ground with a ladder the entrance. I'd rather them use what we have since there are nesting boxes. Lol

 

[Duck Drover]

I just gave away two nice breeding quality Silkie roosters today to a girl in 4H who has a rooster with too many faults so she will be using both boys for breeding and possibly showing. I knew we had one young cockerel inside trying to crow but it looks like both our splash chicks we kept (wanting pullets) are actually cockerels. Now I will have to try finding a home for the two of them. At least we can get back to hatching without the risk of brothers breeding their sisters once they are laying. The family drove 3.5 hours each way to get the boys so I offered them for free even though I had to put a price on the listing for them.

I noticed today our rooster has one spur longer than the other and it is as long as his toes. I have seen videos of people removing the spur outer covering with pliers to shorten them but it is not something I have tried. I wonder if something happened to shorten the other spur or if it happens that one grows longer than the other. I don't care that his spurs are different lengths but it does seem strange. Since my injury, surgery, and now recovery I have not looked at his feet up close under his feathers for awhile. I already knew he has beautiful feet, I just needed to make sure I did not give away the wrong rooster by mistake so I was checking out his spurs.