What's wrong with their feathers?

[brandibaby23]

I was wondering where to ask or pm or email for some of these eggs, I just found this thread and I LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!!!! Pleaselet me know how and when some might possibly be available.

Put me on the list too PRETTY PLEASE!

 

[Jubaby]

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I would love some older laying hens, let me know what you find!

 

[Jubaby]

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I definitely have you down for more eggs, if/when the chickens start laying again.

 

[Jubaby]

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I am the one with the eggs, but currently the chickens are not laying. There are quite a few people wanting eggs, so it will be a while.

 

[Jubaby]

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Very interesting, trisha19! Some of the baby chicks have greenish legs but they turn slate color as they get older. My second rooster has more of a walnut comb, rather than a pea comb - which we will have to work out also.

I would like to see pictures of your other silkied EE chickens, what colors are they? And what ages?

 

[trisha19]

Here are the 2 older ones. The " wheaton" colored one is 1 week older and starting to look great. The blue colored one had a good puffy face as a chick and I and hoping it starts to fill back in. The blue has some red/brown coloring on the hackles. They are 8 weeks and 7 weeeks old. I have 3 more that are 2 weeks old. I will get pictures of them later.

 

[trisha19]

This may turn into a long post, but I thought I would fill everyone in. Last june we got "ameracauna" eggs from someone on e bay. We kept all the chicks we hatch ( 5 roosters, 6 hens) they are all differant colors. Most of the roosters look like blue wheatons and one looks like a red/brown. The hens look like blue wheatons, red/brown and white. So we hatched early this year ( first hatch Feb 14th). At about 3 weeks old we have someone come over to get some chicks, being that we had about 40 in a big brooder we didn't inspect everyone of them. Anyway while we were helping the guy pick out chicks I spotted the " wheaton" colored one and put it in our keep brooder, I remembered seeing this post ( I got butterfly's in my belly) After the guy left we went threw the rest and found a blue colored one, so I went up to our brooder for the chicks up to one week old and found another blue colored one!!!! (Now we lost the older blue colored one) So we started saving every chick till we could see the feathers coming in. Now this is where it gets long and really makes me wonder how the silkied gene comes out. Before we hatched our first set of eggs we send 2 of our EE roo's to a friend on lend, now we had them in with all the others so they could have been breeding the hens. Anyway after our first 3 htches ( hatching on a weekly basis) we got no more silkied chicks. We told our friend about what we were getting and he was watching any eggs he hatched out. Well guess what on Sat we went to see him and he had 3 silkied chicks for us. Same roo's differant hens ( but still ee hens). He is going to continue to hatch just for us are we are going to keep hatching here. So what are the odds that hens in my coop and hens in his coop carry the silkied genes? We know it is in the roosters. Makes me really wonder about the genetics of this. Sorry so long thought maybe my experience with this may help some, or at least make you rack your brains ( as I have been doing for months now)

 

[kathyinmo]

Do I have this correct ....
You are hatching from Easter Eggers? Julie's originals hatched from purebred (smooth feathered blue egg) Ameraucanas.

ETA: By the way, I think your buff colored one is beautiful!

 

[Guitartists]

Still LOVING those Silkie feathered Splash babies!!!!!! GORGEOUS!!!!!! Gotta find a way to sweet-talk the DH into letting me hatch some more eggs........

 

[trisha19]

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We thought when we got the eggs we were getting true Ameraucana's they were light blue eggs and sold are "true", but I have had some people say they are not "true" as the colors may not be right. I have spent several hours on the internet looking up pictures of the true ameraucana's ours look like the right colors but it is hard to tell from pictures. We are only getting blue, and some that have a more green tint to them. So to just be fair I call them EE as we have all colors running together. All of our adults are smooth feathers.