Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

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blues, then splash

 

[Colie <3]

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LOL I have extensions so maybe I'll just loan him some of mine, clip it in and fix it into a nice blonde fro!

 

[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!

The notes I have are mostly on basic color crossing combinations and with easter eggers being mutts basically (correct me if I'm wrong) I'm not sure you can really classify them into a color group half of the time right? I'll PM you the notes I have on the color crosses in the morning just in case they help

 

[Colie <3]

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I'm giving her yogurt and bits of olive oil. I put that in my post but it's easy to skip over sometimes what people write

I've been holding her chick starter but I caved in and gave her a bit sprinkled on yogurt tonite because I know she's gotta be hungry by now. Her crop is looking like it's emptying slowly *knock on wood* I've been massaging it and I think that's helping. Hopefully by morning she'll be back to semi normal and I can try her on a small bits of feed throughout the day to see if she's back on track.
She's still kinda lethargic with the droopy wings and such but right now I hear her downstairs throwing a fit because she's lonely so I take that as a good sign

edited for typos

 

[Teresaann24]

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Yeah I'v noticed alot of my silkies hatch early.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Got my first buff egg from the large breeding group yesterday afternoon! Finally, after almost 2 months of nothing. Hopefully i'll have a batch to put in next weekend. Then I went into the baby pen 2 nights ago where the youngest hens will be 7 months in a week, and there was an egg on the ground and an egg in the coop. Found out the only splash in there is laying. Got her paired up with a nice blue, so hopefully I can start hatching from her soon.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Yeah I'v noticed alot of my silkies hatch early.

Me too. Normally they pip on day 19 and hatch on day 20.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh my gosh looks like my barred rocks on steroids

[very pretty]

 

[Miss Lydia]

Colie, I'm sorry I guess I missed about the yogurt, I am glad to hear she seems to be doing better. As much love and care you are giving hopefully she come out of this and start to thrive.. Bless

 

[ultasol]

Since I hatch mostly silkies, the early hatching seems 'normal' to me, and I always worry when all the silkies are pipped or out, and any other chicken eggs in the incubator don't look like they are doing much. The other chicks hatch, but a day or so after the silkies are out and about.