Silkie thread!

[Debbi]

Thanks chickendales! Did you mean soup, or are you making soap (like what you wash with) with them? I've got some older roos here of another breed that I have been thinking of making into dog food as well.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Can I respectfull request that this discussion go to the Meat Birds section rather than remaining here.

 

[Floridachicken1958]

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[Debbi]

No problem. Didn't think they would qualify as a "meat bird" per se, so asked here where folks may have had experience.

 

[chickendales]

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soup

 

[chickendales]

debbi it is good ? glad u asked

 

[spowell]

Hi everyone

I posted this question in the Sizzle thread on the 12th and there have been no posts since. I hope it is ok to ask here.

I purchased "Sizzle" eggs, assuming they were silkies with the F gene. What I got was a coachin(sp?) frizzle x silkie. So the 3 chicks that hatched have pink skin, 4 toes and a orange beak. Can someone tell me if I breed that chick to a silkie and take the best offspring and breed back to another silkie how many generations could it possibly take to get all the silkie quality with the F gene? I'm still trying to figure all this out.... thanks

 

[Cargbrock]

Yesterday, I hatched two PolishxSilkie chicks. (Polish roo, silkie hen) I brought in one of my silkie hens (I feared that it was too cold to put the chicks outside with her, plus the dangers of the other chickens...) and she's been sitting on them for about three hours. I heard that silkies were good mothers, even when not broody. None of my silkies were broody, so I brought in the sweetest one... She doesn't seem to mind them under her, but someone told me that she was supposed to act happy and sing to them if she wanted them... She's just sitting there... I even gave her a grape (one of her favorite treats) and she only nibbled at it a little bit... I tried to get to the chicks a little bit ago and she huddled down and wouldn't let me... Was putting a silkie on them a good idea? Would it be better to just raise them myself, or can the silkie hen do it? And does anyone know what the chicks might end up looking like?

 

[Floridachicken1958]

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A silkie is 1 of the best mothers there is out there JMO.

 

[WhiteCochinLover]

Yall Are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
lucky to have silkies..... I found someone in my area that said would sell me some but now she wont respond and hasnt responded in like 4 days!!!!!