Tips for hatching silkies.

[EmmaJane88]

So exciting! I'm scouting local adds to see if I can pop a few more in!! I really want to start breeding but will have to wait and see... I have to keep them at my mums as I live in a rented house so it's down to her and her neighbours whether we can keep any roos.

I have a suspicion that my partridge is a roo :-( if it is I'm praying its quiet!!! Xxx

 

[blondie34]

I thought as much

My two black chicks have greyish chests and vents... Are they splashes or will they eventually become black? Xxx

they could still end up being black or even maybe blue -- the blue chicks I've raised usually were dark with a little lighter "fluff" around their bellies and vents.. but that is true with blacks too (lighter belly and vents) Splash chicks are hard because they change a lot as they mature.. I've had chicks that looked blue at hatch and ended up Splash when they started feathering out more

 

[omas biddies]

Wonderful. Good luck

 

[omas biddies]

Thanks and good luck. Let me know how you did

 

[omas biddies]

I find it hard to see into the brown eggs