Silkie thread!

[Debbi]

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mmhh = much much beautiful

Wait.. What? I get the much much, but beautiful doesn't start with H.

I'm assuming it's like the old Campbell's Soup commercials: "Mmm Mmm Good!"

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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She's beautiful!

ETA: She looks like a boy though

no. Pure pullet look

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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awww they are too cute! Very beautiful. Don't you just love them? I have fun watching mine mess around and run around the yard, or the chicks in their grow out pen as teenagers as they play fight. They look like dust bunnies with all their fuzz.

I absoultely love them! They are gorgeous and soo calm. Malibu loves to get out and roam, she is very adventurous! Dynamite just follows her around all day it's hilarious! Malibu is a princess, she is spoiled rotton! She can't see with all her fluff so i have to get her out of her house in the morning and put her, though this morning she went down all by her-self! Her eggs are tiny but soo adorable! She has a slight crooked beak...but honestly, i think it looks adorable on her! I read that silkies don't lay well, but so far she's laying great! My Australorp doesn't know she's a chicken so whenever she sees her she stares like "what in the world is that????" It's sooo funny! Malibu reminds me of Big Bird

Most silkies lay just as well as any other breed...until they go broody. And they do THAT a lot.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Gorgeous! I'd love to see a photo of the whole bird

BYC restricts photos by new members until they have at least a certain number of posts. Offhand, I don't know that that number is.

 

[blessedchick]

Hi all! I'm brand spanking new to chickens and I'm incubating 17 silkie eggs to hatch around Christmas. I'm SO EXCITED!!! Currently, bird wise, I have 7 lavendar guineas, 3 gorgeous mute swans (my Angels) and 4 rescue parrots.

I do have a question for the experts: is it true that silkies won't navigate a ramp? I'm planning their coop for a springtime build and certainly don't want to have a ramp that they don't want to use

Thank you all!

 

[blkpoodles]

idk the number either, just post alot of post till you can i guess?

 

[blkpoodles]

all my silkies use their ramp, my coop isnt very high off the ground either and

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[SilverSilkie]

Some use it others not. Silkies sleep more as partridges (together on the ground) than as phasants (on branches)



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[Sonoran Silkies]

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"Silver Quail" Is that the same as Silver Partridge?

Quail is a different pattern than partridge. It is the most common colour for d'anvers. From feathersite: silver quails:

and quail:

Note that in quail, as in partridge, the females carry a lot of secondary patterning while the males have very little of it.

 

[SilverSilkie]

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Gorgeous! I'd love to see a photo of the whole bird

BYC restricts photos by new members until they have at least a certain number of posts. Offhand, I don't know that that number is.

Ciao Sonoran. I hearded yet much about you (nothing but good things). I managed in the mean time to post some photos. I will post more but I have a problem with the filetypes.