Silkie thread!

[Colie <3]

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I can show you my notes I've taken from reading and reading thru the forum or maybe you could check out this link. It's a little hard to understand at first...
http://www.kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

 

[Colie <3]

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Aww Little fluffins

 

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

Colie <3 :

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I can show you my notes I've taken from reading and reading thru the forum or maybe you could check out this link. It's a little hard to understand at first...
http://www.kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

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I'd love to see your notes. Is it possible?

Crossing blue silkies with eggers, and egger colors are SO unpredictable so I'm kinda floundering here. That list could help me. I hope.

Followed the link but sheesh ... I think I need to do it when I've actually slept more than a few hours in a week. Very confusing for my tiny mind.

And to LuvDucks: Thanks.

BYC people are the best!​

 

[Miss Lydia]

yes you say your working on a tiny chicken thats cold hardy etc. i for one would like to know more about it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Colie are you sure it's wise to not give the little one something to eat, like maybe watered down yogurt with maybe some poly-vi-sol in it?

 

[swheat]

Here is pic of one of my cuckoo silke hens, I tried to get her to stand but she wouldn't

..Her crest is so big...Hard to tell which end is which

 

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

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Okay, but we're probably 2-3 years away from what I want. Crossing silkies with bantam eggers, and silkies with bantam marans. I chose blue silkies because I want the dark color to come through but not a dark black. I'm hoping the blue (which looks gray to me!) will be dominant, even with the unpredictable egger colors!

Should I start a thread about what I'm doing? Just keep updating it over the next several years? I'm relatively new to chickens (only 1 year under my belt) so I don't even know if many BYCers would be interested.

Meanwhile, I have two questions:
(1) my silkies seem to have pasty butt much more than the eggers. Is that normal?

(2) They seem to flap their wings and get up to the tiny roost I have in their box (about 1 1/2 inches off the ground) just as successfully as the eggers. Do I just have adventurous chicks?

BTW: I totally love my little cuddle-bunnies. And their soft fuzziness is a texture that my autistic kid LOVES. Hope it can carry over at least some with the cross-breeding.

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

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Agreed. Very nice!!

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

No matter where I have gotten my silkie chicks (hatchery wise, back in the day), I always lost a few within a few days of receiving them. I think they are just so fragile that the least little thing can cause them to get ill, and get worse. Hopefully your little guy will be alright. Have you tried feeding minced boiled egg?

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

Ok forgive my ignorance, but does someone have a pic of a cuckoo? I can't wait to see what they look like. This silkie cuckoo is just too cute.