Silkie thread!

[BlueBaby]

My experimental hatch was a great success! I got 13 babies from 17 eggs set, 3 of which are show girls. All but 1 look like pre silkie babies, even the ones that hatched from the ameraucana eggs. All will be silkie feathered, split for lavender, and have 1 blue egg gene. I'll get some pictures later on I had two pens set up. One pen had a splash silkie roo over two silkie feathered lavender ameraucana hens. The other pen had a silkie feathered lavender ameraucana roo over I think 4 Silkie and two show girl hens. I couldn't have asked for better results. I set the remainder of the eggs this morning and have broodies sitting on some.

I want showgirl one's!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Sorry it took all day but here's the pictures of the silkie x silkie feathered ameraucana babies

 

[pointsalamander]

I love watching these fluffy butts.... to bad It's looking like my tiniest chicks are both male... (They aren't silkies)

 

[Gonzoink]

As a new chick person I looked for numerous timeline/progression photos of baby chicks to just have an idea what to expect and couldn’t really find any. So I started my own. Here is a few of my fluffy butts so far... I think my Pearl might be a “he”

 

[Hinotori]

I have a small growth progression on My Coop page along with other pics. I'll repost them here.

Partridge pullet. I started taking pictures as soon as I could sex.

Week 5

Week 6 -male on left the female on right

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

And here's that cockerel from week 6 at 14 weeks old

 

[pointsalamander]

It's like a giant cotton ball pile

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Managed to get some nice shoes the other day I didn't get everyone but he's most of my silkie flock.

 

[pointsalamander]

I give up I'm dna testing this one.... 4 months old....

 

[Hinotori]

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I give up I'm dna testing this one.... 4 months old....

It's a cockerel. Pullets are brown, not red

 

[Hinotori]

Had to dig and find a picture of a lighter young partridge cockerel. Looks around 10 or so weeks old in this. I can tell it's male just by color.