Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[Fluffy Lambs]

She looks (is colored) exactly like my frizzle! I could've swore I saw that color somewhere though and it was called something else, but I can't remember what.

These are brown red old English games (mine hardly has the color) :

And I think these are light brown colored, but I don't know what breed they are.

But this is a partridge wyandotte:

(None of these are my photos)

It's like they don't match any of these! They're like mixed with one of them. I should pen my brown red hen with the rooster that makes Chocolate's color separately and see if she's the "unique" one!

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

These are brown red old English games (mine hardly has the color) :
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And I think these are light brown colored, but I don't know what breed they are.
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But this is a partridge wyandotte:
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(None of these are my photos)

It's like they don't match any of these! They're like mixed with one of them. I should pen my brown red hen with the rooster that makes Chocolate's color separately and see if she's the "unique" one!

Maybe yours, @AngBantamLuv, is just a very light variation of brown red. And possibly mine. Like the rooster lightened it up but it's the same color. I never thought of that.

 

[TJAnonymous]

So I'm taking a gamble this morning.... This morning when I fed everyone, I saw that Elsa (my white hen) had hatched out a baby! Her first... She is also sitting on 5 eggs. So I decided to give her the two babies I hatched in the incubator and took all 5 eggs from under her. That means she has 3 babies total to look after. Given my track record with first time mamas (of any breed), I'm understandably nervous about how she will do with them. When I first gave them to her, she got a little stressed and started pacing. Just like Blossom (my dark buff hen), she wasn't watching where she was stepping or being careful. She did settle back down rather quickly and stuffed all 3 chicks under her. How often do you think I should check on them?

I put the other 5 eggs in the incubator with the 3 remaining eggs. None were pipped. I will candle them tonight to see what stage they might be in. I know at least 2 or 3 of them should be in the very early stages (a few days old). I don't know if they are Elsa's or possibly one of the other hens. I have 3 silkie hens but there's 2 game hens in the same pen. Both game hens are raising babies which should have long been weaned by now. I'm not sure when they start laying again after weaning? But only 1 game hen would even enter the coop. The 2nd game hen stays in a big dog house with her babies on the other side of the run. She never goes into the big coop.

 

[TJAnonymous]

These are brown red old English games (mine hardly has the color) :
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And I think these are light brown colored, but I don't know what breed they are.
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But this is a partridge wyandotte:
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(None of these are my photos)

It's like they don't match any of these! They're like mixed with one of them. I should pen my brown red hen with the rooster that makes Chocolate's color separately and see if she's the "unique" one!

That partridge is amazing! All of them are really pretty but that partridge.....wow!

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

My partridge rooster who was killed by a predator. I want another Silkie like this.... So badly!
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Beautiful! Looks a bit like my boy I use to have but he went infertile for some reason and was way too skittish he went for me when I carried a shovel so that was the end of him unfortunately, he gave me such gorgeous colour chicks of all sorts!
I want to create another one of him and it looks like I may have a lighter version of his colouring in one of my chicks.

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

So I'm taking a gamble this morning.... This morning when I fed everyone, I saw that Elsa (my white hen) had hatched out a baby! Her first... She is also sitting on 5 eggs. So I decided to give her the two babies I hatched in the incubator and took all 5 eggs from under her. That means she has 3 babies total to look after. Given my track record with first time mamas (of any breed), I'm understandably nervous about how she will do with them. When I first gave them to her, she got a little stressed and started pacing. Just like Blossom (my dark buff hen), she wasn't watching where she was stepping or being careful. She did settle back down rather quickly and stuffed all 3 chicks under her. How often do you think I should check on them?

I put the other 5 eggs in the incubator with the 3 remaining eggs. None were pipped. I will candle them tonight to see what stage they might be in. I know at least 2 or 3 of them should be in the very early stages (a few days old). I don't know if they are Elsa's or possibly one of the other hens. I have 3 silkie hens but there's 2 game hens in the same pen. Both game hens are raising babies which should have long been weaned by now. I'm not sure when they start laying again after weaning? But only 1 game hen would even enter the coop. The 2nd game hen stays in a big dog house with her babies on the other side of the run. She never goes into the big coop.

That's great Elsa has accepted the chicks, I'd be watching them for an hour at least then every 10 mins pop my head in to make sure all ok!
..it's been a few hours since your post so are they all doing ok? any pics!?
.. Some mumma hens just know what to do straight away, others do not. I've unfortunately had a few that trampled and killed chicks and never give those bad mummas a second chance.

 

[Hinotori]

This little girl is a snuggler. She tried to sunbathe in our intermittent sun while laying on my chest and almost slid off. She expects to be caught. She's 27 weeks old.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

That's great Elsa has accepted the chicks, I'd be watching them for an hour at least then every 10 mins pop my head in to make sure all ok!
..it's been a few hours since your post so are they all doing ok? any pics!?
.. Some mumma hens just know what to do straight away, others do not. I've unfortunately had a few that trampled and killed chicks and never give those bad mummas a second chance.

I have one mixed breed bantam that deliberately kills them. A few times she pecked open the eggs before they hatched. She will never be allowed to hatch eggs again. My sweetest hen has a crooked tail because when she hatched the hen attacked her and bloodied her up a good deal but I got outside just in time, praise the Lord.

 

[TJAnonymous]

That's great Elsa has accepted the chicks, I'd be watching them for an hour at least then every 10 mins pop my head in to make sure all ok!
..it's been a few hours since your post so are they all doing ok? any pics!?
.. Some mumma hens just know what to do straight away, others do not. I've unfortunately had a few that trampled and killed chicks and never give those bad mummas a second chance.

I went out and checked on Elsa (my white hen) and the chicks around 5 pm today. They were all doing great.... Elsa did get a little nervous about my intrusion into the coop. She got up and walked away from her nesting spot to nibble on some pellets briefly and then headed back to settle down again. One of the chicks had followed her away from the nest. She didn't make any attempt to get the wayward chick to come back but as soon as I nudged the little nugget back to her side, she tucked him under her wing.

I didn't get any pictures today but I will try to get some tomorrow. All the babies look the same. They will either be a very light buff or maybe a white with some buff bleed through. Makes me think the daddy is my white rooster.... And that the eggs might actually be from my light buff hen (named Anna). The babies look very very similar to what she looked like at the same age. This is Anna as a hatchling -

This is Anna as a young 4 month old pullet. (She's currently 10 mo old)

 

[HipMystic]

I went out and checked on Elsa (my white hen) and the chicks around 5 pm today. They were all doing great.... Elsa did get a little nervous about my intrusion into the coop. She got up and walked away from her nesting spot to nibble on some pellets briefly and then headed back to settle down again. One of the chicks had followed her away from the nest. She didn't make any attempt to get the wayward chick to come back but as soon as I nudged the little nugget back to her side, she tucked him under her wing.

I didn't get any pictures today but I will try to get some tomorrow. All the babies look the same. They will either be a very light buff or maybe a white with some buff bleed through. Makes me think the daddy is my white rooster.... And that the eggs might actually be from my light buff hen (named Anna). The babies look very very similar to what she looked like at the same age. This is Anna as a hatchling -
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This is Anna as a young 4 month old pullet. (She's currently 10 mo old)
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I love her coloring!