Silkie thread!

[ChicksNherps]

What would you all call this color? She is like a buff partridge, but she has spots as well like a paint?! She was a freebee from the breeder, but I think it's a beautiful color. Could I show her with this color? I have heard of showing AOV.






One of her spots, she has more kickin around

 

[Sanna]

Oh your roo is such a majestic bird.......gorgeous!!!

ohhh wow how cute!!! great looking silks!! <3 he will be even more handsome/beautiful!

Thanks guys!
I know my rooster, Sir Curly as I call him, isn't the best specimen around when it comes to the breed standard but he just has something about him.

 

[littlecritters]

But thats the problem. They arent chicks I just dont want my silkie pair hurt. Mabye I should just get a seperate pen for the turkey? I just took some watermelon up to them and the tukey was trying to step on their backs and fluff up? Myabye he's cnfused on smething lol maye thinking they are just very small hens. 

Try removing the turkey to see if your other chickens get along well with the silkies. If they do, then you may consider keeping all the chickens together and the turkey separate. If the chickens harass the silkies, then you may be better off keeping the silkies apart from them. It's better to be safe with the silkies than sorry.

 

[littlecritters]

I located a good article on coccidiosis ---> http://fluffybottomsfarm.blogspot.com/

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

What would you all call this color? She is like a buff partridge, but she has spots as well like a paint?! She was a freebee from the breeder, but I think it's a beautiful color. Could I show her with this color? I have heard of showing AOV.






One of her spots, she has more kickin around

This color seems to be popping up alot out of paint pens. Very similar to Dwegg's 'frosted' paint girls. Karen Larson of Catdance is the first and most prelific (sp?) producer of these colored birds and folks have called them creamsicles. You could show AOV but put a name to the color "frosted" "creamsicle" etc. for some ideas if you were to decide to show.

 

[aoxa]

How do you know this one is a girl at 7 weeks of age??



I read somewhere in this topic that the pullets stop chest bumping at 9-8 weeks if I remember right. How old are your chickies?
For the foot feathers, I'm pretty sure if they don't have any, they probably won't get any later on.

I know because she is now 14 weeks old

 

[ChicksNherps]

The strange thing is she came from partridge eggs, All of her siblings were normal partridge. She is so adorable though, gonna put some weight on her and take her in October. She's a bit light, I don't think it's internal parasites but I am going to deworm her anyway.

 

[Denise661]

ohhh wow how cute!!!  great looking silks!! <3 he will be even more handsome/beautiful!

Wow is he a pimp! Lol he has them in a line.

 

[KMHunter]

I located a good article on coccidiosis ---> http://fluffybottomsfarm.blogspot.com/

Good article. I always have Corid on hand. And I read in another article that some use it once every month or two for 1-2 days as a prevention. Just to keep the number of protazoa down in the system. Not sure how I feel about this. But I do keep it handy and use it 3 days on and 1 week off when I switch my babies from medicated to non medicated. Then after a month or so of that I just watch for runny poo. I want them to build their own immunity to it.

 

[Suzierd]

What color do you guys think this chick is? Some form of gray or just one of those random colors that have no name?











I'm really really really hoping it's a girl and end up looking like dad (on right).

I think she/he looks just like the Dady