CallyChook Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Sometimes, you just have to share photos!! My silkies this is Cloud, the smallest one about half the size of the other blues... two siblings died at 2.5 weeks and 5 weeks respectively. Shine, the only partridge silkie that hatched (must have had the humidity too high as had 3 DIS ) This is Monsoon the middle sized blue And Rain, the biggest of the lot and also the most scaredy I also bought Mildred and Maud, POL miniature whites, photos of which are on my thred "Maud is Mr Maud??" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallyChook Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 haha, also a big pic of my bump (due to arrive in 3 weeks!) on the second to last photo lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarlettohara Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 They are all lovely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Silkie babies are always so cute 15 long days until mine hatch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-DiamondChick07 Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Awww lovely! Good luck with human baby too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Looking at your little partridge chick I realise that one of my silkies (Dolly) is a partridge. I thought she was a gold. Should the golds not have any black on them? Not that I mind. I only have room for 5 hens. I have 3 Silkies at the moment and I'd like 5 that all look different so I know who is who. Should I go for one of each colour - white, partridge, gold, blue (yours looks ever so sweet) and black or can I mix my Silkies with other breeds of hen? I don't want to have to clip wings and most of the other bantam breeds sound as if they might be a bit flighty. One more question,when it comes to Silkies the books seem to differ in what they say. Some say that Sikies are all small standard hens and there are no bantam Silkies, others say you get both big and bantam sized Silkies. I'm not sure if mine are bantam Silkies or not. They are bigger than a friend's Pekins. Sorry for all the questions. I'm new to all this excitement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallyChook Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 Looking at your little partridge chick I realise that one of my silkies (Dolly) is a partridge. I thought she was a gold. Should the golds not have any black on them? Not that I mind. I only have room for 5 hens. I have 3 Silkies at the moment and I'd like 5 that all look different so I know who is who. Should I go for one of each colour - white, partridge, gold, blue (yours looks ever so sweet) and black or can I mix my Silkies with other breeds of hen? I don't want to have to clip wings and most of the other bantam breeds sound as if they might be a bit flighty. One more question,when it comes to Silkies the books seem to differ in what they say. Some say that Sikies are all small standard hens and there are no bantam Silkies, others say you get both big and bantam sized Silkies. I'm not sure if mine are bantam Silkies or not. They are bigger than a friend's Pekins. Sorry for all the questions. I'm new to all this excitement. well, I'm no silkie expert, these chicks are my first foray into the land of the fluffy chicken! As far as I have found, there are both large and bantam silkies, and the bantams seem to have a divide between smallish birds and miniatures too! I'm not sure about the golds having black on them to be honest as I have never fancied a goldy one, the partridge have a greyish undercoat with the browny/beige longer feather/silk. Also when they're a chick they look like a little bambi with stripes down their back and the black streak on their face! Now she/he's 9 weeks, Shine has leopard style spots on her primary wing feathers which are just gorgeous, looks like she's been spray painted up close I have my silkies with my polands, as the silkies are generally a bit daft and prone to bullying, and the polands have that hairdo which on the girls especially really does seem to restrict their vision. I thought it might be a myth, but Flappy my white crested black is FOREVER getting herself lost and chirruping like a lost soul, with her family only feet away. It's the ultimate in cute tho. I have heard other silkie owners say that a larger silkie cockerel can really hold his own in a mixed breed flock, I think some of them can be quite the character. If my Mildred and Maud are boys then they'll have to go back to the breeder.... I want to keep my own hatched boys where possible even tho the white folks are cute. It's not looking good for them - I posted the link on here and so far most are saying they're looking male :'( If they are, then I'll be looking for two females to mix in with them, and it might have to be a couple of female pekins as I don't want to end up with another male by mistake if I buy more silkies dont know if that would work tho... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meezers Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 One more question,when it comes to Silkies the books seem to differ in what they say. Some say that Sikies are all small standard hens and there are no bantam Silkies, others say you get both big and bantam sized Silkies. I'm not sure if mine are bantam Silkies or not. They are bigger than a friend's Pekins. Sorry for all the questions. I'm new to all this excitement. Well, I have Muppet, who was sold to me as a large fowl silkie, she is way smaller than my others, but I thought she was just as big as silkies got. Now I have Dandelion - a 16 weeks old chick Muppet hatched for me, for a start, the egg was bigger than those Muppet lays and at 10 weeks she was the same size as Muppet, now at 16 weeks, she dwarfs Muppet. So there are definitely miniature and large breeds. To be precise, a true bantam is not found in large fowl,- for example, a Pekin is a true bantam. So miniature is probably the best description for Muppet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 This is all quite fascinating. My cockeral Silkie was not supposed to be a cockerel, but I am very fond of him now. He is such a character - very expressive and his crow is not bad at all! I feel sure he thinks he is huge the way he puffs himself out and runs down the path like a little colonel. His hens (all two of them so far) are not as big as him. The person I got them off kept on about how some of hers were miniatures and some standards, but I think it was more a question of age. Small they are, but not that small. However I would not want them to be bullied and like the idea of mixing Silkies with Polands. A bit more research on these required, I think. One of my Silkies has such a big hair do ('80s style) that she sometimes bumps into things. I have to make sure she doesn't get left behind when grub's up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Cloud and Monsoon are sooo sweet. They all are really, but I like those two best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
