Silkie thread!

[Brody's Broodello]

Colie <3 :

Brody's Broodello :

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You just may be in the future......time will tell.

Years from now I'm gonna brag and say I know you ok?

 

[Colie <3]

Brody's Broodello :

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LOL I have only ever bred him to black and gotten black and blue babies...Now those babies are grown and throwing lavender/splash babies.

Very confusing....

I have him paired with a white excited to see what comes of it.

My bet is grey like this boy
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20866_dscn2346.jpg​

You all are putting me to shame with all the pics, I call myself a silkie lover ha! No pics over here!
I need to get my camera out. Must. Stop, Being. Lazy. ASAP!
Also, I keep seeing amazing-ness in the background of your pictures I'm a little jealous of whatever setup you have going on over there in Maryland. Do you have pics of your coops and such? Just out of nosiness and picture lovin' sake of course

I love seeing other people's setup aka stealing ideas lol

Oh and btw can someone tell me how greys come about? What breeding makes grey or is it a fluke that gets expanded on? Ive been told they are hard to work with, comments?

 

[Brody's Broodello]

Colie <3 :

Brody's Broodello :

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My bet is grey like this boy
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20866_dscn2346.jpg

You all are putting me to shame with all the pics, I call myself a silkie lover ha! No pics over here!
I need to get my camera out. Must. Stop, Being. Lazy. ASAP!
Also, I keep seeing amazing-ness in the background of your pictures I'm a little jealous of whatever setup you have going on over there in Maryland. Do you have pics of your coops and such? Just out of nosiness and picture lovin' sake of course

I love seeing other people's setup aka stealing ideas lol

Oh and btw can someone tell me how greys come about? What breeding makes grey or is it a fluke that gets expanded on? Ive been told they are hard to work with, comments?

Grey is Partridge with the silver gene. You can try partridge to lavender to dilute. Takes awhile to breed out the automasol red. Too much auto red gives you calico ( or what is commonly called calico) Hence my grey has red leakage on wings, thus he can be classified as Calico. But add more auto red in the next gen, you'll get the calico that is simular to my Salmon in coloring. Having a grey under color & leakage in the hackles. The difference is that my Salmon was made using a Mahogany red gene from a TRUE red silke in the background foundation,crossed with a few other colors. Thus he has a straw color ticking all over, a brownish undercolor, Red pattern on wings with a duckwing (white patch), and best of all the golden clear hackles. I sent the photos of him to Sigrid & she commented on his coloring being the best Salmon color & pattern she ever saw on a silkie. Fortunately he had full siblings hatch,the females are a wheaten in color, which Sigrid commented that they did not have black in their tails as seen so often. He will be mated to his sisters to produce the next generation to solidify the color & pattern. Only those that are perfect in that way will be used for breeding the f3 gen. But I have test mated him to B/B/S for kicks & giggles. He as produced a few Calicos with them, so the silver gen showed it's head with them.​

 

[Miyashi]

Yeta!!!

Yeta again!

Yeta and Gamma when he was a baby.

Pheobe, my silkie old english cross. She's a cutie.

Gamma, he's missing two toes on one foot. The dark farm I saved him from said they just fell off for no apparent reason....uh huh....All I know was he lived in filth in the dark for his first 8 weeks.

Scoops, also saved from the "dark farm"

 

[kfchickenlady]

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aww, poor things, glad you brought them into the light!

 

[vanilla.exe]

@Colie: Two is fine for now until I own a farm!!

@Terr: That guy is GORGEOUS. I didn't know there were so many colors!

@Broody: I love your gray guy too...wow!

@miyashi: beautiful whites. I hope my little white one grows up nicely feathered like that <3

 

[Teresaann24]

I love all the colors of silkies rather be accepted colors or not. I love my odd balls! I started out with whites I still have whites and still breed whites but sometimes I like to mix it up and sometimes sell assorted non standard eggs or chicks from the odd ball pens. People always e-mail me or message me after a hatch from eggs from them and say OMG I feel like a kid on easter each egg opens and there is something different and surprising inside...LOL Gotta love that!

 

[emvickrey]

I have a question. I have 2 hens that have gone broody. How do I stop them? I let 4 sit on eggs during the winter but when I took their eggs they went about their business. These 2 are relentless. Although it's only been about 4 days I keep making them get up. One will walk around a bit then go back to sitting and the other one won't even stand up. She will sit where I put her but when I leave she goes right back up to the nesting shelf and plops her fuaay butt right back down. I have orders to fill I need them to be laying.

At least for another 2 weeks. They can sit all they want after that.

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

Good luck trying to convince a silkie to not go broody :rolleyes. You can put them in a wire elevated cage an run a fan underneath. This sometimes breaks a broody.

 

[Teresaann24]

I don't even try to break a broody silkie...It's pointless well atleast for my girls they see eggs they want babies and they get what they want..LOL