Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

My babies are doing great and the mommas are doing fantastic! Here's Snow reminding Fluff n Nutter that motherhood isn't easy especially with 8 chicks!

Awe so cute!

 

[Obsessed With Silkies]

Would ya'll call this girl lavender? She shows up darker in the picture. Based off the pic of her when she was a chick and the breeder I got her from she should be lavender. Just want to make sure. Thanks!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Would ya'll call this girl lavender? She shows up darker in the picture. Based off the pic of her when she was a chick and the breeder I got her from she should be lavender. Just want to make sure. Thanks!

She is blue.
you can tell by the gradient of color and the darker head. A lavender would be uniform in color.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Hello my fellow Silkie enthusiasts! I have missed you all. I have not been on BYC for about a month and I have about 40 pages to catch up on!

 

[kurby22]

Hello my fellow Silkie enthusiasts! I have missed you all. I have not been on BYC for about a month and I have about 40 pages to catch up on!

We’ve missed you!!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

We’ve missed you!!

Thanks! Getting through the pages, so much going on. It is so annoying when work interferes with your free time!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

My pretty Barney has moved on to more spacious pastures, with acreage and 6 ladies all to himself. He can free range during the day and coop sleep at night. He's going with kids too, which he does well with, and what i was hoping for him.

The girls should be more relaxed now, and I'll be able to sleep in! Plus i don't have to close up the coop at night to keep out light anymore. Helpful w the summer heat.

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He grew up so beautiful! Glad you were able to find a good home for him!

 

[kurby22]

Thanks! Getting through the pages, so much going on. It is so annoying when work interferes with your free time!

I know! Lame work!!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Hello my fellow Silkie enthusiasts! I have missed you all. I have not been on BYC for about a month and I have about 40 pages to catch up on!

I miss you!!!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Photos from today.
Finally got Nico and Lilikoi integrated with the rest of the flock. It only took three months! Spent their first night with the flock last night. Granted I didn’t have time to work on it every day. Niko has been laying for about a month, nothing from Lilikoi yet. The rooster actually sort of keeps an eye on them and doesn’t let the other hens pick on them too much, which is nice. He is doing his job well!
Hotaru and the two blue girls, Kumori and Sora, are just under three months old now. Hotaru is just under 2 pounds and is 100% hormonal teenager!
He is just getting his saddle feathers in. They are much brighter orange than the rest of his coloring. Not much of a crest and he also has his mom‘s orange eyes!
He even took on his father yesterday and it looked like those cartoons where you just see a whirling ball rolling around with dust coming out! Luckily neither one of them was hurt, but I did have to intervene. I let all the birds out together under supervision at this point. The three littles usually keep to themselves on one end of the yard and the rest of the flock on the other end.
Nice to have time just to hang out with the birds! It’s so relaxing.

Hotaru

Kumori and Sora

Eko and Niko (father and daughter)

OGs Kana and Layla (and moms to the blue girls)