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TheRookie said:
Got an odd question for those that show..

I posted pictures of my Blue Silkies a while back, I want to try to show one or more of them but if I am still not 100% on whether they are male or female.. Can I still enter them with my best gender guess? They will be 6 months at time of show so there is a possibility they could reveal themselves but I am just worried I will go to show saying I have a girl and everyone there tells me its a boy
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Can you post recent pictures? Maybe someone can help you figure out which gender they are.
 
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New to Silkies...well, I've tried before but had bad luck. My first hen was a splash Silkie, and I didn't know I shouldn't just have one. She seemed depressed. I got her some friends but they didn't like each other. Then she just died :-( In her nesting box. I only had her about 2 weeks and I felt awful. One of the friends I had gotten her was a 3 m.o. white silkie, the other was a light brahma, same age. The silkie, Sally, turned out to be a Sal and I didn't think I wanted a rooster so I rehomed him, and had to let the light brahma go with him because they were best friends, and I never want to leave or send out a chicken without a childhood friend after what happened to my first girl (I think she died of depression).

Anyway, now I am hatching Silkie eggs, and I'm wondering if you can help me tell what they should look like as babies. There are paints and lavenders, but I imagine the lavenders won't ALL hatch lavender, right? And even if they will be lavender, what color should they be as babies? I know the paints are yellow, but will they already have their little spots? I have one that hatched (my broodie is two days ahead of the bators), and it's yellow but with a little black smudgy on its head. There are also b/bl/splah eggs, and splash eggs, which I have tried to separate but they may hop around when they hatch. There are about 30 of them. First one pipped this morning. I'm rambling, sorry sorry sorry, it's my first hatch. Oh help...
 
How exciting! I am sure you will do just fine. I am not versed in paints and lavenders though so can't tell what color the babies are. I *think* the paints would get their spots later on as do the splashes but I am not sure. :thumbsup Good mama broody yeay!
 
tiki244 said:
OK I Who is this CatDance and where do I get a hold of CatDance?
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She adverstises her eggs in the egg selling forum on this site. Gorgeous birds! She packs beautifully. That's where my eggs are from, and I think I'm going to have the best hatch rate from hers (received eggs from 4 sources). To be fair to the others, hers had a shorter trip to get to me. Anyway, I believe it's $50 for 18 eggs, including shipping.
 
tiki244 said:
How exciting! I am sure you will do just fine. I am not versed in paints and lavenders though so can't tell what color the babies are. I *think* the paints would get their spots later on as do the splashes but I am not sure.
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Good mama broody yeay!
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Oh, thank you so much! And yes, I love my broody. She's a BCM, and had only been laying for about 5 weeks. Then the rooster got to her, and I guess she'd been watching too many Lifetime movies, because apparently she assumed she was pregnant and the next day she was on maternity leave... The weird thing is, her sister, who started laying the same time as her, then went on strike and stopped laying, but is not broody. Guess she's just on vacation.
 

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