Silkie thread!

[NovaAman]

These are my new babies. From Roger, a black with gold leakage, and a white. Both are bearded...



Its yellow and black...



And the Mama who hatched them is not a silkie...

AND! This is what I found behind the brooder box today when I realized that the silkies were hatching a day early and had to hurry to get them in here and Skeeter back in a different next box with the Aug 25 hatch. SHE WAS SO MAD! Until I put her on her eggs. Well anyway...


They were under a shelf, behind the brooder, between, they had to go around my air compressor, which blocks it pretty good. They had to squeeze between the compressor and the wall! OMG, 3 different chickens eggs here. LOL.

Praying that nothing happens to these ones. I do not think I could handle another devastating loss like last time. 2 more silkie eggs are set to hatch Aug 25. Only, I got them from a guy who also had a show girl roo in his pen. SO who knows what they will look like. All the hens though are white. The roos are black show girl, one calico, one porcelain and one white. SO, we'll see. I just had a hen who was broody, and had just wormed my girls since we had a capillary worm issue... SO, I got 2 eggs. Yup. Just two.

 

[mama2my4]

LOVE the baby pics!

 

[TheRookie]

I went outside and found 4 white silkies and one black 1/3 polish 2/3 silkie had hatched! I read on here that silkies are prone to hatching early, and they did indeed, they were supposed to hatch sunday. One egg is left, but I'm not sure if it's going to hatch or not. Either way, this was a nice way to start my day

I think we have twin hens lol

 

[Chicken Tamer]

Sanna
cute pics!!!!

 

[omaeve]

I don't know of anyone who isolates chicks hatched from shipped eggs. Here is a photo of Isabelle/Porcelain.


Black/lav split are black birds that carry the lavender (self-blue) gene. It does not show outwardly. Here is a chart for breeding and what you can expect from black/lav split.

The term split is used to indicate a recessive gene that is present, but does
is not seen, because only one copy is present (and two are needed for the gene
to affect the actual appearance).

Lav X Lav = 100% Lav
Lav X Split = 50% Lav, 50% Splits
Split X Split = 50% Splits, 25% Lavs, 25% Blacks
Lav X Black = 100% Splits
Split X Black - 100% Blacks 50% splits, 50% black. But once again, they
are indistinguishable from each other.

Just a reminder, a split lavender is apparent ONLY from breeding
records/information. There is NO evidence in the appearance of the bird that
it carries one copy of lav.

thank you

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

Peep Blessed- you're Silkies are beautiful. I went to your site, and notice that one of your horses is named "Cor de la breyer". I used to show custom Breyers and resin horses Have about 100 Breyers, and 2 "real" horses. Nice eye candy on your site- thanks!. Pam-

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

Oh! And I'm 42 yrs old- lol. Most of the showers are 30 yrs old and older.

-Pam

 

[PNWGirl]

PROTEIN IN SILKIE FEED

Hi Everyone,

Would you mind telling me what protein level that you feed your Silkie's?

Thanks!

Sheila

 

[DDNONIN2016]

PROTEIN IN SILKIE FEED

Hi Everyone,

Would you mind telling me what protein level that you feed your Silkie's?

Thanks!

Sheila

Mine are 9 weeks old and I still have them on Purina Start and Grow. Then will switch to Nutrena layer crumbles

 

[samanthajosling]

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Sooooooooooo cute!