Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[Ilovemychicks08]

Mine are doin well in single digits.

It get to about -20 every year.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

It get to about -20 every year.

I'll let one in similar climate advise as I am in Tennessee.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I am looking at getting a silkie this spring. Can they live in very cold weather. And i like the blue splashed silkie.

Unfortunately not really cold hardy breeds, what temp are we talking? Cause they have fluff for feathers, so it doesnt keep heat in well.

 

[Chickeria]

Thanks!
Three more have hatched, two black and a paint. They’re still in the incubator. Yes Himawari’s was the first one that hatched and it’s a paint.
Not quite sure where the blue one came from.
Genetically speaking I thought the only one that could give me a blue chick would be Kana and the the egg this chick came from I thought was Amai’s.

Awesome
How many are still in the egg/in hatching process?
...Little blue surprise

 

[TJAnonymous]

Babies babies everywhere this morning! Today is hatch day! All 5 have already hatched! Yay! All are crosses. I had 2 white eggs (Blue Andalusians), 2 green eggs (Starlight Green or Ameraucana, not sure), and 1 blue egg (Easter Egger, Ameraucana, CCLB, or Prairie Bluebell, not sure). As I mentioned before, all the potential daddies carry at least one blue egg gene.

Can't wait for them to fully dry and fluff out but the babies from the white eggs appear black or silver. The babies from the green eggs are a pretty rust brown mix. And the baby from the blue egg appears mostly black with some lighter colors mixed in.

 

[Chickeria]

Babies babies everywhere this morning! Today is hatch day! All 5 have already hatched! Yay! All are crosses. I had 2 white eggs (Blue Andalusians), 2 green eggs (Starlight Green or Ameraucana, not sure), and 1 blue egg (Easter Egger, Ameraucana, CCLB, or Prairie Bluebell, not sure). As I mentioned before, all the potential daddies carry at least one blue egg gene.

Can't wait for them to fully dry and fluff out but the babies from the white eggs appear black or silver. The babies from the green eggs are a pretty rust brown mix. And the baby from the blue egg appears mostly black with some lighter colors mixed in.

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Congrats! That's awesome that all 5 sweeties hatched well

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Awesome
How many are still in the egg/in hatching process?
...Little blue surprise

3 more look viable. One looks to be DIS.
So hopefully 9 out of 10! I have another 6 due to hatch on the 31st.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Babies babies everywhere this morning! Today is hatch day! All 5 have already hatched! Yay! All are crosses. I had 2 white eggs (Blue Andalusians), 2 green eggs (Starlight Green or Ameraucana, not sure), and 1 blue egg (Easter Egger, Ameraucana, CCLB, or Prairie Bluebell, not sure). As I mentioned before, all the potential daddies carry at least one blue egg gene.

Can't wait for them to fully dry and fluff out but the babies from the white eggs appear black or silver. The babies from the green eggs are a pretty rust brown mix. And the baby from the blue egg appears mostly black with some lighter colors mixed in.

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Congratulations and what a nice mix of chicks!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Got an unexpected order for some Polkies yesterday so these were added to the incubator. I told my husband I wouldn’t be hatching chicks for several weeks but apparently I’m a liar!

 

[Obsessed With Silkies]

I said I would post pics of my silkie chicks when they hatch. They are expected to come into the world on Friday!!! Today they have officially gone in lockdown!