Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Evelle]

Evelle, I love the silvery look to the grey. Beautiful!

thank you
those are my project ducks lol

 

[Evelle]

Hi Celtic... cat got your tongue?

 

[stillmecle]

Hubby wants to call my baby silkies K, F and C. Or Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

 

[Evelle]

you cant free range quail!!!!!!!!!!!!????????

uh oh what am i going to do??

 

[Evelle]

Hubby wants to call my baby silkies K, F and C. Or Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

I had big white leghorn rooster named Kay Eff Cee lol my older brother named him (he kinda adopted him)
he ended up hanging himself with the hanging feeder

 

[70%cocoa]

sorry my daughter broke my air card so it keeps kicking me off the net...

The little one with the small bib is a girl i was thinking of breeding her with the boy with the larger bibs to see what i get.
yeah thats the one with chocolate feathers.. i think ill sell him i dont want those.
so hes the only one i know is going the others ill breed and see what i get out of them before i decide what to do..
the little girl at top was a throw in since i got all 3 of the ladys boys kinda glad she has that smaller bib so i can breed the drake with the HUGE bib to see what i get from her.

the lady had no idea about ducks and clipped alll their wings so as far as white tips i cant tell
we will see if i dont like what comes ill try again.

i thought i had a picture of the other one but cant seem to find it hahaha ill take individual ones later of body and fronts.

LOL, I thought the little one looked like a girl. Definitely see how she goes with the bigger bibbed ones!

Bummer about the wing clipping.... Did she cut them right down to the stubs?

 

[70%cocoa]

Hey Cocoa ! Wuz Up Girl !

All good here!

 

[stillmecle]

I had big white leghorn rooster named Kay Eff Cee lol my older brother named him (he kinda adopted him)
he ended up hanging himself with the hanging feeder

OUCH

 

[Marty1876]

thats hard to tell i silkies are the only chicken i cant tell lol
awww the lady who was suposta sell me B/B/S silkies has not contacted me ive called 2 and emaled her 6 times i give up

I'm gettin B/B/S silkies from someone. You want me to PM you her address??

 

[70%cocoa]

70 what do you think of my black sweden drake?

He's obviously a bit damp here but you can tell that his bib is quite neat. Although it looks a bit raggy round the edges I'm assuming that that's because he is wet?? It's not ideal that it goes all the way up to his bill but otherwise it it a good size and quite symmetrical. A few extra white feathers underneath the bib but not too much.

Nice orange feet - that's good.

Nice straight bill - that's good too (you don't want a curve to the top line of the bill). Would be good to see his bill coming out of his head at more of a right angle, so less slope towards the ground. Bill is a solid blue with no light or dark patches, so that's good.

Head is pretty good - oval shaped as it should be.

Looks like he is nice and broad in the chest - another good thing.

He has no white on the sides of his bill = good.

So, overall he has a number of very positive features. In the breeding pen the only thing that'd worry me is the bib that goes all the way to the bill. In theory I'd put him with a duck that had no trace of the same fault.

Can't see his wings so not sure about white flight feathers.