Both chicks together. They are a good size as of now. The black and white chick next to them is an olive egger that hatched the day before them, for size comparison.
Chick 2: hatched 3/13/24 is solid yellow with black skin. Muffs and beard are not as pronounced. All these hybrids have perfect feet, unlike my pure silkies I’ve been working so hard on. 🙄😂
Two more hybrid chicks hatched from the same parents, white silkie rooster over salmon faverolle hens. This is mostly to keep track of the chick color vs adult. Wish I had taken photos of the older hybrid as a baby chick! I’ll post updates as they grow.
Chick 1: has black stripes down back and...
Wow he’s stunning! He looks even bigger than my hatchery Brahmas, it was really smart to use them for your project. He even has a nice walnut comb too.
Thanks for sharing, it’s really encouraging to see your success with large silkies. And also great to hear they lay large eggs too. I love so...
That’s awesome! I would love to have giant silkies someday and I’m surprised it isn’t more of a thing actually! Do yours lay regular sized eggs if you don’t mind me asking?
That’s a really impressive weight you’ve achieved. My biggest rooster is 4 pounds exactly, and I haven’t weighed his...
Hi everyone! I wanted to start a thread for Silkie/faverolle breeding project I’m starting. I have a white silkie rooster who’s larger than usual. I have a thread on here about him and have been keeping his biggest offspring to try to start a line of LF silkies. I also raise salmon faverolles...