I think she said they were 6 months old in one of her posts.How old is he/she now? When they are around 4 months, the first thing that I see change is their stance. They become very erect and their legs seem to look longer in comparison to a pullet. Next would be the neck feathers, giving them a shaggy lion-like look. Then finally.. the comb. Post another pic, recent, and everyone can try it again.
Those are really adorable chicks and I love the girl in your avatar but I'm wondering why you call her calico? She looks light partridge to me. Not saying I'm right by any means. Just wondering.
i have patridge that start out black some times
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
I agree. Oh, I thought that she said by the time the show came around it would be six months.I think she said they were 6 months old in one of her posts.
At 6 months, you should be able to tell clearly which gender they are, I would imagine.
SEE I know nothing, hahaha ~ I learned something today and that is great. I appreciate all the experts who share their knowledge, charts, descriptions, and everything else with us to make us all better chicken lovers. Like I said Curly is beautiful no matter what color he isThank you both!
I will save the Gray color standard on my laptop for future, but I was pretty sure Curly was a gray. lol I've done so much Googleing and looking at pictures and listening to all the smarter people here on the forum and other places. Majority of people call him a gray, so that's what I plan on calling him.In the end, I don't think it matters. He's my pet and I thought it would be fun to take him to the fair. This will probably be his first and last time being a show bird anyway.I'm doing this more as a practise run for next year when my Catdance chickies will be old enough. I wish they were big enough now.
Any suggestions on the color of this baby that just hatched? Not sure who laid it or fathered it but there a lot of possibilities as my kids collected the eggs and didn't mark where it came from..... It is definatley a pure silkie and has all of the qualities of one. It is jet black body with white tips on its wings, toes, butt and chest and a few tiny spots on its crest.
My black silkie is kind of like this. A yellowish rump, tips of wings, and under it's beak not on chest or head. Is that normal for a black Silkie? And I say Black because that is what the egg was marked when it was shipped.
Here's your one chance fancy don't let me downYou should play that on the way to her first show!
I don't know if I would put that around my coop it could adversely effect your chickens and you could loose them? I would do a google search on that to make sure the fumes aren't poisonous to your chickens. I'm organic on everything anyway so I wouldn't use a chemical. We just buried the hardware cloth on our coop.
