Silkie thread!

[ThePolishPrincess]

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You can hardly notice the cross.

Sooooo cute!!

 

[renovationmom]

I hope you all can help me. I have a silkie Roo, he just turned a year old, he has very nice type, I dare say he is of show quaility. I do not plan to show or sell for profit(I may just sell extras, like too many of one color), but I want to build my silkie flock, working on type, color, and a good mix of blood lines. I noticied he has "Horns" started on his comb where is crest starts. I do not care for this at all. I am worried he will pass this on.

Can anyone tell me what causes this, and if he will pass this on if I were to breed him, is this just something the roos will have?

Thank You in advance for the help!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=413116

 

[NewToFarming]

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Oh good lord! You can't get any cuter than this!

They are gorgeous!

 

[renovationmom]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=413116

Thank you, this thread was very helpfull. 2 months ago, when I was doing a bug check, I noticied little red knobs forming just where his crest meets his comb, which is mulberry in color, so the knobs really stand out. I have been checking them, and they are getting larger, I am afraid they will continue to grow, they just turned up out of nowhere.

 

[Teresaann24]

So every year a bird lays eggs in this big concert thing deep down in it my little girl wanted to see the chicks so I got an ideal to put my camera in the hole downwards and take a pic to see them...This is what I found when I looked at the picture after taken.

Can you see what I see?

 

[Chicklette 1]

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OMG!!!

 

[PamB]

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Adorable!!

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

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Whoa! A picture's worth a thousand words, they say...

 

[emvickrey]

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I found the 2 egg theives yesterday but was unable to dispose of them the way I prefer to. Other words, they got away only to come back and steal more eggs. One was a chicken snake and the other a cotton mouth. As far as i'm concerned they are both dangerous. If not bitten I can hurt myself if startled by them. And thats what nearly happened with the chicken snake. I was standing just about a foot away from it when I noticed it. I was waiting for the cotton mouth to come back out of hiding when I looked to my right ans saw it wrapped around a branch on a brush pile. Directly next to me on the left was a converted rabbit hutch that holds guinea keets in one side and a pair of silkies in the other. No where to go but back wards or forwards where the cotton mouth was. Today the hunt will be on again when I and DH get home.