Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: It should be pretty good; Grant definitely knows his genetics, and this is not his first book.

 

[Nikkipar]

HORRBLE! I ordered 6 brahmas and a silkie and they arrived today. The silkie was dead, 2 of the brahmas, and another brahma looks like it won't make it!

 

[peepblessed]

HORRBLE! I ordered 6 brahmas and a silkie and they arrived today. The silkie was dead, 2 of the brahmas, and another brahma looks like it won't make it!

OMG!!!! That is sooooo horrible!!!! Just heartbreaking! I am sooo sorry!

 

[stoopid]

Nikki, contact wherever you got them from asap and tell them what happened.
They should make it better.

 

[Hawkeye95]

HORRBLE! I ordered 6 brahmas and a silkie and they arrived today. The silkie was dead, 2 of the brahmas, and another brahma looks like it won't make it!

I dealt with a late death-- 4 days later and they refunded me. ( I dealt with Meyer) I called them the very next day after they arrived to tell them the one chick didn't look good. Good thing I called, because he ended up living past the time alloted for healthy chicks. He died the next day-- he was barely hanging in there the whole time. But because I had called earlier to tell them he wasn't doing good, they refunded him. Shipping is hard on them, but most of them do usually make it. Sorry about your chicks!

 

[gambit2178]

I am sorry that happened to you...that is a horrible experience, especially when you been patiently waiting!

HORRBLE! I ordered 6 brahmas and a silkie and they arrived today. The silkie was dead, 2 of the brahmas, and another brahma looks like it won't make it!

 

[Nikkipar]

The seller will refund me the money, and was very understanding about it.... but I feel horrible that I now am left with NO silkie

 

[BarnGoddess01]

so i see so much talk about genetics...and it has me wondering where you all get the information from... this might sound like a dumb question but is there a big book on silkie breeding genetics??? currently not breeding, not really sure if i want to .... but i would like to be sooo informed like the rest of you

which books, or what should i be reading up on ?

As has already been stated, Silkies work like any other chicken as far as genetics are concerned.

I've been using "Genetics of Chicken Colours: The Basics" by Sigrid van Dort in Holland. http://www.chickencolours.com/ She also wrote a book on Silkies. Loads of pictures in both books. Makes this stuff VERY much easier to understand but it's expensive. I have several other books on poultry genetics as well but I found I really couldn't understand them until I had Sigrid's book. It is SO true what they say - a picture is worth a thousand words ....

 

[mama2my4]

HORRBLE! I ordered 6 brahmas and a silkie and they arrived today. The silkie was dead, 2 of the brahmas, and another brahma looks like it won't make it!

oh no! I am so sorry!!

 

[gambit2178]

So adorable!

This is a picture of my partridge chicks. I got these eggs after I sold my partridge rooster.