Okay all! I just completed a hatch and got some fun chicks! I found out that my F2 white satin girl, Frenchie, carries both lavender and mottle (but not blue egg sadly.) I got several chicks that I will test for blue egg gene and keep if they carry it. And I lost my lavender silkie pullet so I...
Cute chicks!!! 1, 2 and 4 are definitely frizzled, and 3 is not. The frizzle gene is pretty common among polish. Just make sure if you plan to breed, dont breed frizzle to frizzle as you will get birds that are not healthy and will likely live shorter, more painful lives.
Both parents of this bird carry at least one copy of the silkie gene. Do you have a silkie rooster? Any other type of rooster? For example, if you have one silkie rooster, and one rooster of a breed with regular feathers (most other breeds) then the father is the silkie because the other rooster...
Okay everyone, the 4th of July hatch is officially over 🙌 Thank you to everyone who has followed along! I am so sorry to say that out of the last batch of chicks. There was one that didn’t make it out of the shell and that was #68 Philadelphia. But the others are doing well and I am feeling so...
Chicks have been hatching!
#61 Carolina @GodLovesU I mentioned above, she had pipped the wrong end and I ended up helping her after 24 hours because I wasn't quite sure she would be able to zip out on her own. She is doing great and now in the brooder!
#63 Flag 2 hatched and is a cute little...
We had one baby hatch early this morning!! It is egg #60 that I assigned the name Stripes 2 for @Ecarroll after the first Stripes didn’t hatch. He is a paint chick with light skin.
I also began helping Liberty 2 and Carolina because they were struggling. Carolina had pipped the wrong end and...