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[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I think it was in Morganton...and that was the first one I think. Amy may know more about the spring one coming up....

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

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Pigmentation is a skin trait. People of African descent have red muscle tissue and white bones. Likewise for silkies (relative to normal chickens).

But with silkies - they have dark slate/gray/blackish skin, muscle (meat), and bones.

The blood is red

Here is one halved.

http://cloud.foodista.com.s3.amazon...65baddbe8a1d610464d4efbb35f45b59d_500x375.jpg


ETA: Picture not taken by me. Nor is it one of my own birds.

Like those.

Lisa

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

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I plan to have B/B/S orpington eggs for sale in the early spring. I have everyone grouped up together for winter.
All my LF lay brown eggs.
I am near Pickens.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Humm, my DH just told me than we should send them ours!

I have been thinking there may be a blackmarket (no pun intended) for dressed out silkie birds around here ( the Fugi folks?!?)

Yes, I need some kind of market for all the silkie roosters I seem to get. Maybe just the fertilizer market....

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Pigmentation is a skin trait. People of African descent have red muscle tissue and white bones. Likewise for silkies (relative to normal chickens).

But with silkies - they have dark slate/gray/blackish skin, muscle (meat), and bones.

The blood is red

Here is one halved.

http://cloud.foodista.com.s3.amazon...65baddbe8a1d610464d4efbb35f45b59d_500x375.jpg


ETA: Picture not taken by me. Nor is it one of my own birds.

Pictures do tell the story though don't they. Thank you for finding that it give me an idea of what to expect. Although DH is saying he won't eat one and if he saw that I know he wouldn't. A couple of these white silkie roosters though are so nice and heavy--I hate just making them into fertilizer.

 

[huckleberryfarm]

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Those are interesting! Wow!

 

[Larkspur88]

I had a wonderful dream last night...

My seramas all began laying and I got a new one too. Hopeful me!!!

Actually I have more boys than girls. Gosh darn! But I LOVE the roosters the best.

 

[Larkspur88]

Oh, check out sexy Quincy:

He's about 4 months old now. He's crowing up a storm from within my garage. He would probably prefer the outdoors, but I don't wanna expose him to the coop outside yet.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150462135477319&l=bff27fc06c
Click the above link and it's photos of all my young birds most of which I hatched excluding the polish/silkies.

Oh, and I don't know if this will work, but this is a video of Quincy going AHHHHH

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10150457405157319

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I never did post a good pic of the "reading" splash silkie.

Here he is being pretty for a lady that was talking to him

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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What a blessing these children are to us as we have struggled to have more and were unable to. There is a plan and we may not know it but are happy we have

I know I'm asking for trouble here, but...

The way you all are with chicken math, count your blessings.

RobertH