Silkie thread!

[peepblessed]

So if BBS is black/blue/splash, what does it mean exactly?? You have eggs of all three colors? Or one bird carries these genes? I'm confused. lol

A lot of people house these three colors together because they all cross well. Here is the gene chart for BBS


The way the Blue gene works in a breeding can be broken down as follows:
1) Blue x Blue: This will produce 25% black, 50% blue, 25% splash.
2) Black x Blue: Produces 50% black and 50% blue.
3) Black x Splash: You'll get 100% blue.
4) Blue x Splash: Produces 50% blue and 50% splash.
5) Splash x Splash: This will give you 100% Splash.

 

[chisNchickens]

Thank you! I was thinking keeping them together all the time....duh. Great idea

Ummmm, you could send her to me?

Seriously, she is quite pretty. I keep mine all together until I set up breeding pens for a two month period, collect all the eggs I need/want and then everyone goes back together again. Easier to control the records that way too.

 

[chisNchickens]

Awww....my fave. I agree - looks like a pair to me. Lovely babies....

Gorgeous day yesterday. Perfect for getting the chicks out on grass.

Here are my two white babies hatched out of eggs from Dylan's Silkies. Really hoping they are a pair. I think the larger one might be male based on attitude, size and comb development, the smaller, a female for same reasons, attitude and lack of comb development. They are six weeks old tomorrow.

Priscilla and Chardonnay

 

[Laingcroft]

Single combs can occasionally crop up in silkies from somewhere way back in the lineage, but silkies have walnut combs not rose combs. ;-)

Got my information from this link - scroll down about half way: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/comb-genetics

Walnut (according to this source) is actually a combination of dominant rose and dominant pea.

I'm not planning to breed this baby and will probably end up selling as a pet but it is good to know if there are recessives that might crop up down the line from the second chick I purchased from the same breeder which has a regular walnut comb. Possibility that they are related.

 

[KMHunter]

My eggs are starting to hatch!!! I am on pins and needles right now!
They are in a friends bator so I can't sit and watch. Wich is probably what I would do....and worry and not get anything else done.

I got word this morning that the first one had pipped and she was hearing a lot of peeping in the eggs.
I don't think I was this worried and impatient since I had my son 17 years ago!!! Lol!

I will have pics as soon as I can.

Kim

 

[peepblessed]

My eggs are starting to hatch!!! I am on pins and needles right now!
They are in a friends bator so I can't sit and watch. Wich is probably what I would do....and worry and not get anything else done.

I got word this morning that the first one had pipped and she was hearing a lot of peeping in the eggs.
I don't think I was this worried and impatient since I had my son 17 years ago!!! Lol!

I will have pics as soon as I can.

Kim

I just had two pips also! Blessings on those little balls of fluff!

 

[littlecritters]

Another silkie addict in the making!! Welcome to a great bunch of enablers!    I'm sure everyone does things different but I'll give you my routine. My chicks get free choice medicated feed until they are four months. They also get free choice alfalfa hay from birth and on. As soon as they are able they get sunflower seeds as a daily treat and flaxseed. They also get fresh fruit or veges daily. All applies to my adults except the medicated feed. The adults get flock grower and oyster shell. Wow! They eat better than me!

Oh yes, I'm definitely on the path to silkie addiction. My daughter is disabled and I was initially setting this all up for her, but now I'm loving them too! We have splash and blue, and we are also looking for a few other lovely colors. My husband is shaking his head wondering if I have lost my cuckoo. Raising chickens is relaxing and therapeutic...so now I'm telling my husband that we are just doing chicken therapy. Which, by the way, is MUCH cheaper than retail therapy.
Tina

 

[peepblessed]

Oh yes, I'm definitely on the path to silkie addiction. My daughter is disabled and I was initially setting this all up for her, but now I'm loving them too! We have splash and blue, and we are also looking for a few other lovely colors. My husband is shaking his head wondering if I have lost my cuckoo. Raising chickens is relaxing and therapeutic...so now I'm telling my husband that we are just doing chicken therapy. Which, by the way, is MUCH cheaper than retail therapy.

Tina

I totally agree. They are way more therapy for me than money could buy!

 

[Fancy Feathers]

I have to agree. Watching chicken TV is the best therapy there is!

 

[littlecritters]

We did a "photo shoot" of the new chicks and wanted to share some pics with you. The silkies were angels, and on the other hand the polish did not want to cooperate at all. Here are the splash...

Our blue baby is next....

one splash...

another splash...

and the WCblue polish....no pics of the WCB...

and lastly this is our "Angry Birds" picture. They look like little toughies here... lol

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