Silkie thread!

[Elite Silkies]

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I love BBQ's!! We'll make a day of it.

I can actually count mine now! I have 17 now and will have 13 left after Saturday and I still have a blue pair to sell, so that will leave me 11!! I had 54

White
Lavender
Buff
Splash
Black
Blue

 

[bacres]

How many pens do you have to keep all these colors! I want to have Black, Lavender, Blue, Splash, and White, but I only have to pens. If you have a soultion other than build a third pen please tell me! I would love to hear everyone's soultions!

 

[Elite Silkies]

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If you want to breed the lavenders and whites true then you will need 3 pens. You could put the Black/Splash/Blue in one pen, the Whites in one pen and the the Lavenders in one pen.

 

[bacres]

Darn! I was planing to have:

Pen 1: Black and Lavender
Pen 2: Blue and Splash or Only Whites

I really want all all five colors I can keep all of them if I only have two pairs or 1 pair of each color then sell most if not all babies.

 

[Elite Silkies]

You can put the blacks in with the Lavenders and get splits. That would work. But, you can't put the whites with any other color, so you'll have to pick one or the other.

Since, you already have whites, I would do blacks and lavenders.

 

[bacres]

Will I have 4 whites, 1 adult pair one 4 month old pair. I also have 8 2 month olds that are blue or black. Not sure what color they are. A lot of these babies look like boys if not all. There is one I feel might be a Pullet. So I will have to sell them all or maybe just 6. But then I have 12 split eggs that I bought that I havent recieved yet because the breeder is still collecting and they are shipping them next week.

 

[Elite Silkies]

Do you have any pics of the babies, so that we can see if they are blue or black? If they are black then they can go in with the lavender splits.

 

[bacres]

When they were younger not like to this date yet. I will go out and take some pics.
Here they are!

Blue?

Blue!

Black? Pullet?

What do you think?

 

[shay20]

First pic is a blue, last one a black.

 

[bacres]

Really. So this means I have 7 Blues and I feel 1 Black. Do you think the Black is a Pullet or Roo?