Silkie thread!

[workinnanie]

beauty!!

 

[PamB]

Just wanted to post a couple pics of some chicks I just hatched.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Awwww!!!! Look at those cuties

 

[cottagechick]

ok...I hear all the time about how late silkies lay. So I am not really getting my hopes up...but I am wondering...do they ever go broody a long time before they lay?? I have two Araucanas that are about 8 months old and I have given up on them laying before spring. I figured that my five that hatched 08/29 (various breeds) wouldn't lay before spring either. All of my girls were in the run this afternoon except one silkie. I found her by herself in a nesting box. I picked her up to see if she looked ok...she looked fine to me....just clucked at me a bit. I put her back in the box. I am just curious. Did she just want some me time? Did she have a fight with her bff? Is she sick? Or could she be broody before she ever laid an egg????

 

[littlecreekfarm]

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If it was as simple as finding a Dominant White Silkie there should be much more paints.
You have to know Co-Dominance not excist in color-genes.
The Black Silkie have the Dominant Black color-gene , the Dominant White Silkie have the Dominant White color-gene.
Which one shall express when you cross these both ? The Dominant white color-gene shall express !
The paint Silkies that have these black spots are not yet completely genetically explained .
An option is that the gene mottled is involved !!


okay thanks.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

She could be getting ready to lay an egg and is just finding her spot

I had a partridge pullet sitting in different spots for about 3 days before she gave me her 1st egg.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Anytime I question one of my birds like this, I rule out health issues first.

I have had one broody before she ever laid her first egg, so it does happen!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Or that

 

[cottagechick]

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I am never going to let my Aracaunas live it down if a silkie lays at 3.5 months and they haven't laid one tiny little egg at 8 months..

 

[littlecreekfarm]

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they are beautiful