Silkied Ameraucana Project

[LBKS]

Fantastic pictures too

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

Here they are! A quick trip out to the sun for a very quick pic, then back to the brooder. Sorry they aren't that great, was in a hurry to get them back to their tub.

AWESOME!!!!! Great hatch!

 

[Austinspoultry]

Leaving my mark

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

Anyone interested in free Silkied Ameraucana cockerels please PM me. I have a couple young Black split to Lavender boys growing out that could use a home.

Just pay box/shipping and yours for free...hate to put them down. I may even have a few Lavender boys too...

 

[CherMoz]

I am officially the owner of 13 Silkied Ameraucana chicks. I'll post pictures soon!

 

[EdenCamp]

I am officially the owner of 13 Silkied Ameraucana chicks. I'll post pictures soon!

What ya gotz????

 

[EdenCamp]

Anyone interested in free Silkied Ameraucana cockerels please PM me. I have a couple young Black split to Lavender boys growing out that could use a home.

Just pay box/shipping and yours for free...hate to put them down. I may even have a few Lavender boys too...

That's awesome! I'm in good shape but for anyone wanting silkied genes - or even black genes if they had a project other than lav they needed them for - this would work!

 

[EdenCamp]

I was going to wait til fall but I've got plenty of coverage and more growing out so..........

I'm in mid-MO 65452 NPIP and AI Monitored - pickup encouraged but can ship if meet your state's criteria.

I'm letting a breeding pen of Chookschicks line choc/mauve SiAms go. These are all splits, 2years or younger. This pen has been producing a good amount of mauve/splash pullets & silkied chicks.
For those that have bought hatching eggs in the past - this is the S2 pen.

For cockerels/roos: splash - proven for choc and silkied split
3 blues - these have been bachelor penned but they have had access to egg flock in the past I've just not split off and test hatched individually.
each has 50/50% of being split to choc
from split to split breedings they have even shot to be sikied splits.
pullets/hens: 3 blues - females cannot be choc splits - so they are not. Have not split and test bred but with a for sure split cockerel a good number of silkied chicks were produced.

Cockerels can go solo, pullets will not.

I may have a full silkied or two (chick/juvie) I would cough up from either this pen or from my CatKai blacks as a quantity package deal sweetner.

This is as good or better start as I had. Only a handful of split chicks will be offered for the next year. If you've wanted choc/mauve SiAms - this is the time.

Please PM to discuss.

 

[Gentry1350]

Just curious when you were able to sex chicks and via what method?

The reason I'm asking....noticed last night that I have one chick with a NOTICEABLY huge/wide baby comb. They are now about three weeks old. Only one of the 10 has it....surely I'm not that lucky?

Also, at about two days old, I put the incubator-chicks in a very low profile box and placed it in the feed room with Bertha-the-Broody and her single chick. Bertha nocked the "door" down on the makeshift brooder and claimed the other chicks as her own. I've never been exposed to a mama with chicks before. It's so interesting to watch them. She's such a good mama! I have a nosy (but harmless) 110-lb male Dobermann that doesn't know he's a BIG dog. He got just a little too close and Bertha jumped him....poor guy never saw it coming!

 

[LBKS]

Just curious when you were able to sex chicks and via what method?

The reason I'm asking....noticed last night that I have one chick with a NOTICEABLY huge/wide baby comb. They are now about three weeks old. Only one of the 10 has it....surely I'm not that lucky?

Also, at about two days old, I put the incubator-chicks in a very low profile box and placed it in the feed room with Bertha-the-Broody and her single chick. Bertha nocked the "door" down on the makeshift brooder and claimed the other chicks as her own. I've never been exposed to a mama with chicks before. It's so interesting to watch them. She's such a good mama! I have a nosy (but harmless) 110-lb male Dobermann that doesn't know he's a BIG dog. He got just a little too close and Bertha jumped him....poor guy never saw it coming!

I can only speak to my own experiences attempting to sex them with this summary. I had what I thought were 4 black silkied pullets. At around 6 months, one finally developed a redder comb, so at first I thought she was getting close to lay. And then it kept growing. Late bloomer rooster.

I don't consider them a sure thing until they crow or lay an egg in front of me anymore!