Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[LadiesAndJane]

Hard to get them all to cooperate for a group shot! View attachment 3036483

Adorable!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Chickaletta is happily sitting on 6 eggs I had express shipped (1 night it took)
It will be good to add some genetic diversity into my flock too so hopefully the hatch rate will be good since they cost $40 (AU)

Here's to u and me both!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Hard to get them all to cooperate for a group shot! View attachment 3036483

OMGeeze they are too stinkin cute!
Remind me again...silkies?
The personality these must have! Look at that sass and those colors!

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Hard to get them all to cooperate for a group shot! View attachment 3036483

Omg how totally adorable!! Love that first pic so much

 

[kurby22]

Sweet little Cher Bear has decided I might be okay after all. After her scary night in the big kid poop bin, she’s been lots more willing to sit with me and be snuggled

And it’s getting close to time to let Betty and Fuzzy take the babies out of the upstairs coop to wander and forage in the enclosed run! I will probably wait another week or so so they get a bit bigger, but they seem to be in very good hands!

 

[chickengr]

I have 6 juveniles, 2 hatched from my columbian roo that died and 4 I got from a friend. I didn't mark them but 4 are black and 2 are blue. I hope those 2 blue are from my roo and they look like 1 male and 1 female - is it too perfect to be true? I wanted to breed columbian silkies and the only hope is that I got a boy and a girl from the columbian roo.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Sweet little Cher Bear has decided I might be okay after all. After her scary night in the big kid poop bin, she’s been lots more willing to sit with me and be snuggled

And it’s getting close to time to let Betty and Fuzzy take the babies out of the upstairs coop to wander and forage in the enclosed run! I will probably wait another week or so so they get a bit bigger, but they seem to be in very good hands!

Awe! Isn't it the sweetest thing when they cuddle up like that under our chin!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I have 6 juveniles, 2 hatched from my columbian roo that died and 4 I got from a friend. I didn't mark them but 4 are black and 2 are blue. I hope those 2 blue are from my roo and they look like 1 male and 1 female - is it too perfect to be true? I wanted to breed columbian silkies and the only hope is that I got a boy and a girl from the columbian roo.

Here's hoping along with ya!
If not I got a lil boy that's satin silkie columbian I need to rehome!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Update on the little Hanabi baby, now 11 days old and a little sweetie.
I guess “she” needs a name.
I sold the older one to a friend, so I should get updates on this one as well.
She is just like “her” mamma. So strange I am not seeing ANY Silkie in this one. Not even any sign of a crest coming in, though it could still come in a bit later.
Four toes on each foot. No beard.
Quite a bit smaller than the same age pure Silkie hatch mates.
I only have one rooster and he is paint, so he has to be the father, though I have never seen him mate Hanabi and she always runs away from him and can easily fly out of his reach.
I found some more red on the edges of the wing feathers. Interesting to see if this stays.
I’m having a hard time seeing if it has a Silkie comb or looks like it possibly may have a single comb or modified comb.

Mama Hanabi

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Update on the little Hanabi baby, now 11 days old and a little sweetie.
I guess “she” needs a name.
I sold the older one to a friend, so I should get updates on this one as well.
She is just like “her” mamma. So strange I am not seeing ANY Silkie in this one. Not even any sign of a crest coming in, though it could still come in a bit later.
Four toes on each foot. No beard.
Quite a bit smaller than the same age pure Silkie hatch mates.
I only have one rooster and he is paint, so he has to be the father, though I have never seen him mate Hanabi and she always runs away from him and can easily fly out of his reach.
I found some more red on the edges of the wing feathers. Interesting to see if this stays.
I’m having a hard time seeing if it has a Silkie comb or looks like it possibly may have a single comb or modified comb.View attachment 3037402View attachment 3037403View attachment 3037404View attachment 3037405View attachment 3037406View attachment 3037407
Mama Hanabi
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Ohhhhh.. well i do see that paint spot.. but otherwise, parthenogenesis is a possibility in birds!!! Could be mama's clone baby!!