Silkie thread!

[Hawkeye95]

OMGosh!! How cute is she?! Beautiful! Looks like a zebra Buff! LOL!! (that's what came to mind when I saw her stripes!)

Melissa Rose-- oh you are so lucky you are in driving distance! But I have to say I've had pretty good luck with shipping birds... but never tried eggs. Good luck with your eggs and I hope you have a great hatch!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

lol Sherbert is a mystery bird, egg was marked partridge, but started out looking like a porcelain. it has the reddish orange ontop of lavender and cream underfluff

 

[peepblessed]

lol Sherbert is a mystery bird, egg was marked partridge, but started out looking like a porcelain. it has the reddish orange ontop of lavender and cream underfluff

I would definitely be trying to breed more like her!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I would definitely be trying to breed more like her!

I actually know someone else who has a young juvie similarly colored, we are talking about possibly working out breeding them if we come out with a pair.

 

[Hawkeye95]

I actually know someone else who has a young juvie similarly colored, we are talking about possibly working out breeding them if we come out with a pair.

That might be really fun to try! I'm sure you could come up with a pair if you bred and incubated enough of their eggs. Whether or not they would look like that.... who knows!?!?

 

[Debbi]

Got a new to Silkies type of question here. Do Silkie pullets typically try to bury their eggs in the bedding?? Could this be an indication that they are trying to hide them from me so they can brood?? Out of 8 pullets, I am getting between 5-8 eggs daily, they are putting my Marans ladies to shame! I have NEVER had a broody hen, so I wondered if this is an indicator? Bedding is a mix of shavings and topped with straw. They seem to prefer the straw, and have made 4 nests. No one has been caught sitting on the eggs, and they are very sweet about me robbing the nests. Sometimes, I really have to dig around in the nests, and some of them are under 2" or so of straw. Any thoughts?

 

[peepblessed]

I actually know someone else who has a young juvie similarly colored, we are talking about possibly working out breeding them if we come out with a pair.

I hope it works out for you. I like the "red splash" idea!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Got a new to Silkies type of question here. Do Silkie pullets typically try to bury their eggs in the bedding?? Could this be an indication that they are trying to hide them from me so they can brood?? Out of 8 pullets, I am getting between 5-8 eggs daily, they are putting my Marans ladies to shame! I have NEVER had a broody hen, so I wondered if this is an indicator? Bedding is a mix of shavings and topped with straw. They seem to prefer the straw, and have made 4 nests. No one has been caught sitting on the eggs, and they are very sweet about me robbing the nests. Sometimes, I really have to dig around in the nests, and some of them are under 2" or so of straw. Any thoughts?

I think they are just nestling into the nests when they lay and the eggs get buried. I do not think it has anything to do with broodiness or trying to hide eggs. Ducks and geese, on the other hand very much DO bury their nests to hide them. When brooding, when they get up to eat, drink, poop, they bury them, then dig them out to re-set on them.

 

[2hot2chicken]

We've been eating our silkie eggs.. but the bullseyes are very obvious. Mine don't seem to be too 'tiny'. I'm going to go ahead and try to hatch some out now that I know they are fertile. I've only collected two to hatch so far. Sigh. I have 5 in the fridge.. but since they've been in there a few days, I'm assuming those are no good to hatch. I think I'll wait for more fresh eggs before I give it a shot to add to the 2 I have now.

hatching my "fridge silkie eggs under broodies I have had about 50-60% hatch rate. And the eggs I did it with the first time were 1-2 weeks old in the fridge! I just recently sold 2 chicks to another byc'er (we named them fridge and freezer) that were fridge eggs and they were very healthy, happy chickies : ) And my fridge has problems freezing stuff in the fridge most of the time to! LOL So I know its possible......

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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I'll keep this in mind in the future ....