Silkie thread!

[mstricer]

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I believe there are a few Chinese experts who can tell about 70 percent of the time, but I don't know where you find them!

Thanks anyway, I guess I will wait. I did take it away when I found all the other babies and ran down to Meyer and got it a brooder mate. So who is going to Columbus National Poultry Show?

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

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I love your grey! I hope to some one of these days!

I love her too!

 

[tracysbantams]

Hi everyone, I am new to raising silkies. I am really enjoying my little ones. I have 8 full silkies and a silkie cross hen. I am for sure two are roosters (1 Splash and 1 Dark gray or black with a ring of brown around his neck) and I believe my little splash one will be a rooster to, three bluish-black girls, and two adult girls (one is white and grey the other is red and dark brown). Then I have Megan. She is my silkie cross and head over heals in love with my Jap Bantam rooster. I recently purchased some eggs from a fellow BYC member. So I hope to add some buffs and partridge chicks if all goes well. I hope to have have a nice coop built for them next spring. So I would love any ideas on coop designs for silkies. I am very excited about them and that they are so easy going.

I have a question about the buffs. What do you mean when you say that they have smutt?

Thank you,
Tracy

 

[chickendales]

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smutt is dark coloring in there wings and tails
there is nice coop threat just rember silkies dont roost and cant get up in coops very well

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

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Smutt is the black in the wings or under feathers or tail feathers.

 

[tracysbantams]

Ok thank you chickendales and Christie Loves Silkies.

 

[peepblessed]

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Here is the BYC coop thread. As chickendales mentioned, most silkies prefer sleeping in a pile.

Also, it can be difficult to train them to use a ramp, but not imposible. Welcome to a great thread with a great bunch of silkies fanatics!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/coopdesigns.html

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

mine sleep on the food bucket or on a on top of a box that was meant for nesting but it didnt work out that well.

 

[tracysbantams]

Thank you peepblessed!! Out of my silkies...I only have one that will roost which is only at best a foot off the ground and Megan she roost up with the leghorns. The rest love to pile!

 

[Cattitude]

I have a couple of Silkie X roosters who like to perch, but the hens tend to huddle on the floor/ground.