Silkie thread!

[BlueBirdChick]

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here is one the other is exactley the same just no top notch that big luella my daughter named them peanut butter and honey

 

[Colie <3]

Peaches Lee my buff chick was the same color as yours appear to be and stayed that way while my whites started kinda yellow and quickly began to resemble white more with everyday. The second picture I see white fuzz so that's what I'm guessing white on. Maybe you have both colors that would be cool

You're a silkie chick savior! I would have been hard pressed to not have said something to the staff there about keeping the chicks like that. Much longer and they could have been in really bad shape...

 

[Colie <3]

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I've seen you post this chickie before can't remember if you mentioned it but what breeding did it come from?

Black Lavender split roo and the hen is questionable. There are splash, black and blue in that pen the egg came from.

I still can't decide then....

I'd say blue as well, do any of the hens have the lav gene? Post more pics when you can! Lets see what the other silkie peeps say

 

[Colie <3]

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Aww what a cutie and so clean! My whites refuse to stay white whenever possible LOL

 

[BlueBirdChick]

Colie <3 :

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Aww what a cutie and so clean! My whites refuse to stay white whenever possible LOL

Thank you

yeah espcialley with the snow melting makes for a big mud puddle lol. saying that though my white leghorns and white austras are fithly lol hahahahahaha.. Go figure

hehehehehe.. They are so stinking fluffy

its crazy

Im hoping that they are hens so I can breed them with my friends one frizzle roo I want to get some sizzles

 

[tgrlily]

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I've seen you post this chickie before can't remember if you mentioned it but what breeding did it come from?

Black Lavender split roo and the hen is questionable. There are splash, black and blue in that pen the egg came from.

You mean the rooster that is light colored on his top half & darker on the bottom half? That's not a split lavender. A black split to lavender looks black, solid black. Split means the chicken carries but doesn't display the lavender gene. Split doesn't mean half & half. Your "half & half" rooster could however father mixed color chicks like itself.

I know we're all on here to learn & I certainly don't know it all.
But I breed Project Lavender Orpingtons so I understand lavender. I really breed them selectively --- not just produce lavender chicks. I also breed BBS & White Silkies & only keep the best ones as my breeders. And I show & do very well. I find it extremely frustrating to see people call their silkies SQ on a swap thread when they clearly don't understand what they're doing or breed SQ Silkies or even know what they have!

Sorry if you think I was harsh --- but if I traded for those, I'd be really upset. Please figure out what you have before breeding them & passing them off as SQ.

 

[emvickrey]

Colie <3 :

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Black Lavender split roo and the hen is questionable. There are splash, black and blue in that pen the egg came from.

I still can't decide then....

I'd say blue as well, do any of the hens have the lav gene? Post more pics when you can! Lets see what the other silkie peeps say

Two of the possible mothers have the lav gene. The blue and splash. Somebody had said once that the one I say is splash could possibly be lav leakage.

IDK I'll post a pic of the chick possibly tomrrow. Momma gets real mad when I mess with her babies. She's the one that had the stomping fit when I took eggs away from her. I gave her another chick tonight that hatched. It's an ameracauna but she don't care. She snuggled right up to it. My "nursery" is wall to wall with brooders. They're not full but I have the breeds separated. They have just the right amount of room in each one. I'll have more silkie chicks soon, I hope. I'll probably give them to George too. I'm sure she will love all the babies.

 

[emvickrey]

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Black Lavender split roo and the hen is questionable. There are splash, black and blue in that pen the egg came from.

You mean the rooster that is light colored on his top half & darker on the bottom half? That's not a split lavender. A black split to lavender looks black, solid black. Split means the chicken carries but doesn't display the lavender gene. Split doesn't mean half & half. Your "half & half" rooster could however father mixed color chicks like itself.

I know we're all on here to learn & I certainly don't know it all.
But I breed Project Lavender Orpingtons so I understand lavender. I really breed them selectively --- not just produce lavender chicks. I also breed BBS & White Silkies & only keep the best ones as my breeders. And I show & do very well. I find it extremely frustrating to see people call their silkies SQ on a swap thread when they clearly don't understand what they're doing or breed SQ Silkies or even know what they have!

Sorry if you think I was harsh --- but if I traded for those, I'd be really upset. Please figure out what you have before breeding them & passing them off as SQ.

I understand what your saying. We all start from somewhere and learn as we go. Maybe not all of us but in my case that's what i'm doing. I post pics to ask the experts questions because I don't know the answer and need to know because I want to learn. I take in what is told to me by those that know more and try to learn as much as I can. What I would just love is for somebody that knows silkies to come out and take a look and give suggestions and info. Pics don't help that much when somebody can see for themselves in person.

Ok, as far as the roo. The person I got the eggs from marked them as to what color they where (suppose to be) I had 1 chick hatch from the lav split egg. He turned out black and as he got older he started turning a whiteish around his neck and it spread to his head and sholders. This is him

By emvickrey at 2010-11-02

By emvickrey at 2010-11-01

Would this hen be a blue?

By emvickrey at 2011-03-20

After I posted this I got a look at that hen and I think she's the splash. My camera isn't very good and just doesn't do the color right as they actually are. Neither the splash or the blue has that dingy grey color.

He has produced offspring to look just like him. I even have a sizzle that the mother is a white sizzle and he is the father. The pullet/cockerel is a shiny black and around it's neck the feathers are black but lightly lined with white. Very pretty but i'm sure not a color one would concider correct. But I like the different ones.
I sold all the silkie and sizzle pullets and cockerels except for a few. I kept a black pair and a blue and 4 partridge silkies and the black sizzle with the white lacing 2 blue ? and 1 I have no idea what the color would be called but I just think it's beauiful. I have no idea if the sizzles are boys or girls right now. They aren't old enough to worry about it right now anyway.

By emvickrey at 2011-04-09
The one up front is one of the blue? sizzles/frizzle and the one behind it that you can hardly see is the blue cockerel. The other blue sizzle/frizzle is lighter in color and has a crest.

I'm always up for info. Anybody have any for me.

 

[BlossomSilkies]

Hi Silkie People, I'm barging in to ask a question, I hope you don't mind

I have a silkie, she was just coming out of being broody when I got her in February. She started laying again the end of March. Now she is broody again. So, my question is, is this typical Silkie? Can I expect her to be broody every few months? BTW, not letting her sit on any eggs, we are at our limit for chickens at the moment.

Thank you! I love Silkies!

 

[emvickrey]

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Mine first went broody during winter and all through winter. Now the ones that didn't then are now. Just when I don't need them to be. I hear silkies are known for their broodyness.