Silkie thread!

[muddyhorse]

yep you have to have a cuckoo to get one.
here is a baby

one a little older

the cuckoos are plagued with red combs but I have some in the grow out pen with all dark skin so far

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

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yeah!!!

 

[Nekhebet]

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I woke up to one of those this morning! I think he's early (I didn't put the eggs in until night time, so technically the 21st day is sometime tonight around six), but I was hoping for pips in the other 4!
::Hatch::hatch::hatch::hatch!!!!

 

[muddyhorse]

come on babies

 

[rilly10]

Good luck with your hatch! I must have totally lost it BC I just set 42 more silkie eggs!!!! My husdand is going to kill me. Of well I give up...I will be hatching all winter as long as my lavenders and porcleains keep laying! Right now I am getting eggs from a lav silkie over a porcelain hen, and my lav showgirl roo over a lav silkie hen and a black split to lav silkie hen. I JUST CAN'T EAT THOSE EGGS OR THOW THEM OUT!!!! Sooo I guess the office is now a winter brooding room! LOL! I am officially a hatchohaulic!

 

[sutillman]

Could someone post a picture of correct toe spacing and what the correct SOP feet would look like. Have a couple I'm thinking of showing next year, but have questions concerning their feet. Thanks

 

[Nekhebet]

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I'd say you could send them to me but I *may* be at chicken max. I'm currently brooding in the attic and building aviaries in the basement for winter. Does anyone know if silkies put out feather dust???
Because when I was brooding serama in my home office....well let's just say hubby put his foot down, I had to spend hours cleaning dust, and we still need to shampoo the carpet and finish painting the walls...

That being said...I'm still browsing auctions xD

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

Nekhebet~~Silkies put out dust/dander......at least they do in my diningroom a.k.a. a Hatchery

 

[emvickrey]

I haven't hatched anything that don't. I hae our spare room turned into the Nursery. And not for humans. But I have overflowed into the dining room, that we don't use anyway. I have 2 aquariums in there that I use as brooders and the plastic storage container I use for another one is sitting right next to the hatcher which is an incubator I only use for lock down. They are on a table in the nursery. Then I have the recovery cages sitting on the file cabinet in there also. Then the other 2 incubators. The room is small to begin with. There is an air conditioner in the window for the summer to keep the temp of the room stable. I will be so glad when we finally get the cabinet incubator built. It will have 5 shelves. Three for turners and 2 for hatching.

 

[rilly10]

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LOL! They sure do! I have them in my "office" which thank god has wood floors so it is easy to clean. I clean that room everyday so it dosn't get out of control. Once they are a few weeks they go out to the coop with a heat lamp.