Ok I see what you meanThe wing feathers look like they are not barbed. Here is the little black one that had the giant beard. Its wing feathers are barb-less like a Silkie but they are supper frizzled.
Here is the white one that had a couple dark feathers. Frizzled and barbed.
I looked at hers thoroughly again today and I am agreeing with you. I'd say her wings are more like the silkie and not as straight/flat looking like the sizzle. But it is curling alot stronger then the black one's is. But the texure looks the same. And the little bit of feather growing out from the shoulder is not showing any barbed feather from what I can see right away so I think your right! That makes me even happier about her lol. Cause I like the silkie feathering the most and thats why I didnt care for sizzles in the past as much. Then I learned about the frizzled silkies, and thought "well those i'd like because they still had that silkie look" but I thought they'd be harder to find. Who would've thought you'd have some lol. The other two I got from you look like they have the regular silkie feathering. I was thinking that striped one might turn out a smooth sizzle. I dont know why, it just gave me that look, but it's not and im glad. Dont care much for the smoothes either. It's turning into a cool color to. Kinda a white/grey speckled partridge. I'll show more pics of that one to as it ages, cause I think it'll look neat. I am pretty sure ill keep it to if its a girl. I like the odd partridge silkie colors
if i were you i would think of how many chickens you want and then they say 4 square feet per full size bird is a good amount of space but some get away with less but more is always better. so once you know how big you need it to be i would build bigger as chickens can be very addicting as most on this thread will tell you lol. and plus building with more space the first time is better than building another coop. having lots of ventilation is key, the more the better. a 2x4 with the big side facing up and down is a good roost, lets them cover their feet when it gets cold. i put my roost on some of those metal hangers so i can always easily remove it to clean it and such. i like having a poop board, some plywood under the roost about a food lower and it is wide enough so whatever direction the girls are facing the poop collects on it that i have some pine shavings on (cant use ceder) and i just scrape it off now and then, makes cleaning easier. my last coop i did not think things through so well so tore that down and build a new one that works so much better both for me and for my girls. one comfort for me is i wanted it and the doors tall enough that i did not have to stoop down. i personally like dirt floors as i know mice tend to nest in some wood floors and also i do not have to worry about the wood rotting out or anything and plus you get more of a compost action of the shavings when doing a deep litter method. i personally have a run, i used cattle panels, they are made of thick wire and you can bend them and such, even to make a hoop house type thing but you do gotta line them with something as the holes in the wire are too big to hold a chicken in. i also have grapes growing on mine, gives me and the girls some food and them some shade in the summer. sorry i am rambling so i better stop lol. but yeah welcome to the addicting world of chickens
This paint is beautiful!I think I am done guessing gender on silkies lol
So it turns out this beautiful paint is not what I thought it was. I thought for sure it was a rooster. It showed all the physical traits apart from the more obvious crowing/raised comb. I still felt soo sure it was because its body was shaped like one, walked like one, and had the swooped back crest, and a wider comb even though it wasent raised yet. I was just waiting for it to crow. Well in just two months its made a complete transformation and now look at it. Looks like my Prince charming who was suppose to be my main breeder is actually a hen lol. Isent she precious
Here SHE is in October looking very boy-ish wouldn't you say?
And here she is only 2 months later looking suddenly very girly lol
And here she is only 2 months later looking suddenly very girly lol
That is funny because I had a "hen" that suddenly became a rooster a few weeks later!
