Silkies tag-teaming the 2 batches of eggs.

[electrycmonk]

And Auntie Charlotte hangin' in the NW corner of the Silkies area....

 

[AllenK RGV]

There is only 1 silkie father. Only he was with the silkie girls "ever". Seperate coop/run inside the big run.

I do recall something both my Better-half and I heavy read regarding a specific sub-groupnof silkies.... The "frazzles"??? They are most likely to die as to exaggerated cranial fragility or some such genetic fragility....

Okay I'll post each chickie as it's own post in just a bit. But...... A couple theories on my part about this chicks.
#1) the Brown egg chick has from day 1 walked and stood very tall and erect. Contrary to the 3 silkie hens we currently had. The white silkies we got as chicks together and raised them together until he started to get too rough. So all the silkie hatchmates are regularly"standing taller" then their Momma do.
#2 Silkie feet- compared to the white dad I have not seen any spur buds show up yet.... I will gladly reinspect and get shots of the feet of necessary.
#3 Brown eggs feet, my last pics of the feet showed what I thought might be "buds" for spurs. However, I don't see anything larger at all.

Okay now for pics in seperate posts

Ok I have to tell you that you do not have a single frizzle to begin with in your photos. Frizzles are a silkie mixed with a hardfeathered breed. Here is Lucky the sole survivor of a winter hatch in winter hawk season. Regardless those curled forward feathers make him a frizzle, yes breed him to a frizzle hen and expect a 25% mortality rate(frazzles).

 

[AllenK RGV]

And Auntie Charlotte hangin' in the NW corner of the Silkies area....
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I miss our golden orb weaver spiders. We have orb weavers of a different type down here: Our Kitchen window "Lucy" the egg sacks are crazy remind me to take pictures of them they remind me of elm? leaves.

Not one of my roosters has yet to have developed a spur of any kind as of my last check up a month ago. They were hatched out in late April 2019.Their fifth toes look pretty sturdy and retracted in vs the hens so that is my theory there.

 

[electrycmonk]

Ok I have to tell you that you do not have a single frizzle to begin with in your photos. Frizzles are a silkie mixed with a hardfeathered breed. Here is Lucky the sole survivor of a winter hatch in winter hawk season. Regardless those curled forward feathers make him a frizzle, yes breed him to a frizzle hen and expect a 25% mortality rate.
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Well, Tina is a Frizzle then.... I'll find a picture of her here shortly..... She was Momma of several of the eggs as she seemed to lay more frequently then "Flappy" or the white Momma....

 

[electrycmonk]

I miss our golden orb weaver spiders. We have orb weavers of a different type down here: Our Kitchen window "Lucy" the egg sacks are crazy remind me to take pictures of them they remind me of elm? leaves.

Not one of my roosters has yet to have developed a spur of any kind as of my last check up a month ago. They were hatched out in late April 2019.Their fifth toes look pretty sturdy and retracted in vs the hens so that is my theory there.

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Well the Silkie roo has very obvious spurs. About an inch long & seem semi flat too.

Your weaver looks a wee bit angular, almost diamond shaped from that shot?

 

[electrycmonk]

This is the best current shot I have of his spur. The darn delay on the cellphone camera is so frustrating sometimes.... He's ducking under the perch rail. But the spur is directly above the 2 rear toes

 

[AllenK RGV]

Well the Silkie roo has very obvious spurs. About an inch long & seem semi flat too.

Your weaver looks a wee bit angular, almost diamond shaped from that shot?

Yep they look odd to my eye too but are classified in the same genus but have drank a few bottles of scotch since then and cannot quote my sources. Same zigzag webs, and leg stance though. I can do a photoshoot after chicken'o'clock for more angles there is nothing rounded on the spiders or the egg sacks more like the F-117 of the late 80's. Might be a hurricane adaptation though as she just set her eggs this week.

 

[electrycmonk]

Here is Tina. 1st pic it from the hatchout when she was still tag-teaming the 2 batches of eggs. The rest are from last August when we got the mini-coop and the 2 black silkie and Tina the Sizzle (a version of Frizzles so sayth the previous owner) the purple hue is from the window tint in the back seat of my crewcab truck.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Here is Tina. 1st pic it from the hatchout when she was still tag-teaming the 2 batches of eggs. The rest are from last August when we got the mini-coop and the 2 black silkie and Tina the Sizzle (a version of Frizzles so sayth the previous owner) the purple hue is from the window tint in the back seat of my crewcab truck.
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Tina + a Tino(assuming you had one would make for a high mortality rate.

 

[electrycmonk]

Update from this morning....
One of the dark colored Chickie's started to chortle like a rooster - it was so cute.
I didn't have phone with me & wasn't close enough to figure out if it was the Chocolate one or the light gray one....