Love these babies!!My babies are growing so fastit seems like the older they get, the sweeter and calmer they are. They let me pet them now without complaint. Sorry about the rough enclosure and dirty feet. It's been pretty much flooding here recently, and after one day of it I had to take them out of their ground pen and quickly fix up this old hutch, safely 3 or 4 feet off the ground. Can't have my sweet babies getting all muddy
i have six more due to hatch this weekend
Well, I now have three Silkie chicks. The last one (4th egg) had a fully formed chick that ran out of steam while zipping.. It also had an extra toe growing out of another toe so I figure it probably had more issues than just endurance. Is that a common issue with silkies at all, weird toe growth?
The pink skin and beaks makes me think these are not pure silkie. Really cute though. Do they have 10 toes?Going to get some better pics tonight but what color do The Experts think the three babies are? The breeder said they came from MottledxPartridge and SplashxPartridge parantage. They all look straight mottled to me...
Love these babies!!
They're so incredibly friendly and comical. The thing most of them were staring at was my lab, they don't trust him yet lol. I wish I could tell their gender as easily as I can with my wyandotte babies. But I know if I end up with too many roosters, they'll be very easy to rehome 
I think my silkies have lice( I'm so sad,,anyone else have lice ?? what a pain in the butt.,
Your buff boy is a handsome silkie. Be careful about letting negative feedback get you down. One picture of him is not enough for someone to be too harsh on your birds. What I can see is that he may have nice wings and his back looks short enough. There are a lot of silkies that have bad wings and it is sometimes obvious in pictures. Base on this picture, your boy looks like his wings are set well and held tight to his body. For showing in conformation, you would want to get his head feathers to fill in more. It looks like he is bare in the face, but that could be from conditioning. Keep looking at pictures of other birds and enjoy your silkies. There are "show quality" buffs out there that produce offspring with some smut/dark coloring in their tails and wings. I can't tell for sure if your boy has some dark feathers, but if he does, that isn't something that is rare.This is my handsome boy and I was asked to post better pictures of him. my question to everyone is what do you call his color he is a SIlky Batnam.
A combination of behaviour, beak shape, crown shape, physical stance and movement, crest feathers that sweep back, and the emergence of streamer feathers have all given me really good clues. And of course, catching them in the act of crowing is always a tell tale sign....
