The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

[Mi Ranchito]

OMG I am sooo glad to be on your wait list! Good luck this weekend and hope you get to take home some 1st prize ribbons! Saludos from San Antonio!

 

[MommaMitchell]

My family is new to owning chickens. I had some as a teen and showed them but that has been a few years (don't ask how long LOL!). We just bought our first chicks 9 days ago. So they are now almost 2 weeks old. I am so excited to be starting out with this breed! Thought i'd share a few pics.

Day #1


Day #1


My middle son and his favorite


My oldest babies them all.


Almost 2 weeks old. Getting plenty of feathers


Day #1, my youngest loves watching them


My favorite chick!!!


We had an escapee overnight so I had to quickly finish the top to the brooder. Hot glue and tulle. LOL!

 

[BGMatt]

dracoe19, those are some truly stunning Wyandottes. It is rare to see that quality in Large Fowl.

 

[dracoe19]

Thank you . I am trying hard to get them as close to the standard as I can.

At the Southeast Ohio Poultry Breeders Association Show and these are my winnings

>1st place silver laced Wyandotte cock, best variety
>1st place silver laced Wyandotte hen, reserve variety
>2nd place silver laced Wyandotte hen
>disqualified silver laced hen (comb spike)
>1st place black Orpington hen, best of breed, best variety, reserve champion English

 

[NanaLynn]

I have been lurking on here for a couple of days. It was nice to see a thread dedicated to SLW's. I have one with chicks I bought from a hatchery and they were hatched on February 11th, so they are 7 weeks tomorrow. I would love to have one of the heritage SLW's, I have been looking at your pics on here and they are beautiful.

What do you think of our SLW? I believe she is a hen since she does not have much of a comb yet and she does have a lot of lacing, but nothing like those heritage birds. One of these days I will have to get some hatching eggs. I am new to having chickens of my own, so one step at a time.

 

[dracoe19]

 

[Too Fast]

Here's some pictures of our SLW. They are straight run, about 4.5 weeks old. Too soon to tell the sex? We're hoping for pullets, they moved into their coop today along with 6 others:






Forgive our newbness, this is our first time raising BYC, just got the coop secured/final build done.
Painting is next.

 

[dracoe19]

1 Pullet and 1 cockerel



The one facing us is the cockerel.

 

[Too Fast]

That's kinda what we were thinking, with the larger comb is the cockerel. He better be well behaved, lol!

 

[dracoe19]

A picture of one of my silver laced roosters strutting his stuff