Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[AngBantamLuv]

Mini photo shoot of the five healthy babies hatched 3/8 and 3/9.
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Love them!! I like the backdrop colors.. ready for framing 🖼

 

[canne50]

I confess after taking in a lonely white silkie rooster many years ago, I’ve had a soft spot for them (pun intended!)
He was a great rooster working in tandem with the full-sized roo. Excellent protector. Feisty!
Hens, well, they are great brooders and moms.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Mini photo shoot of the five healthy babies hatched 3/8 and 3/9.
I posted some of these on the March hatch-along as well, so apologies if you are seeing them twice!View attachment 3021391View attachment 3021392View attachment 3021393View attachment 3021394View attachment 3021395
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Awe they r so precious!!!

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

Chickaletta 'queen' (my 10 yr old hen) is broody again as expected. This time though it looks like her eggs may be fertile!! I so want her chicks as she has great traits I want in future generations - great mum, great immunity against everything never been sick.
She's sitting on 9 eggs I think all are hers I've grabbed the egg after she's out of the nest and singing her song so, I cracked one yesterday and it was fertile. She's very picky with her men but I have seen her allow Biscuit to mate her a couple of times lately although it has taken her a year for her to allow him!
-What colours do you think I'll get from her and Biscuit and will some chicks be clean face like she is? - great for not needing haircuts!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Chickaletta 'queen' (my 10 yr old hen) is broody again as expected. This time though it looks like her eggs may be fertile!! I so want her chicks as she has great traits I want in future generations - great mum, great immunity against everything never been sick.
She's sitting on 9 eggs I think all are hers I've grabbed the egg after she's out of the nest and singing her song so, I cracked one yesterday and it was fertile. She's very picky with her men but I have seen her allow Biscuit to mate her a couple of times lately although it has taken her a year for her to allow him!
-What colours do you think I'll get from her and Biscuit and will some chicks be clean face like she is? - great for not needing haircuts!
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So exciting!
Your lovely Chickaletta sounds like my Layla. Finally getting fertile eggs from her with the 3rd suitor.
If Biscuit is full bearded, then most of the chicks will be half bearded.
If he is half bearded, then he likely carries the non bearded gene.
I had a beardless hen and crossed with a bearded rooster, the majority of the chicks were bearded. One was non-bearded.
I have also had two bearded birds throw beardless chicks, so not quite sure how it inherited, though I believe the bearding gene is incomplete dominant.

 

[kurby22]

Mini photo shoot of the five healthy babies hatched 3/8 and 3/9.
I posted some of these on the March hatch-along as well, so apologies if you are seeing them twice!View attachment 3021391View attachment 3021392View attachment 3021393View attachment 3021394View attachment 3021395
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Never apologize for showing too many pictures of floofers!! They are SO adorable

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Chickaletta 'queen' (my 10 yr old hen) is broody again as expected. This time though it looks like her eggs may be fertile!! I so want her chicks as she has great traits I want in future generations - great mum, great immunity against everything never been sick.
She's sitting on 9 eggs I think all are hers I've grabbed the egg after she's out of the nest and singing her song so, I cracked one yesterday and it was fertile. She's very picky with her men but I have seen her allow Biscuit to mate her a couple of times lately although it has taken her a year for her to allow him!
-What colours do you think I'll get from her and Biscuit and will some chicks be clean face like she is? - great for not needing haircuts!
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Oh the colors! Is that considered calico?
Is that Biscuit? Just gorgeous! Can't wait to see the babies!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Never apologize for showing too many pictures of floofers!! They are SO adorable

Speaking of pics...any of your duccle pics lately?

 

[Buckingham Palace]

I have some silkie eggs under My lohmann brown hen That are hatching one Tuesday and I saw them wiggle last night. So excited

 

[Obsessed With Silkies]

It's time for my Silkie eggs to hatch! The first baby came last night and there is a pip on another egg right now. So eggciting!