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I've got a box of silkies now. Gotta cull the undesirables and then see how many that lessens. Wish I could tell which were males yet so I didn't accidentally cull those

-21F yesterday, -13F today. The little ones seemed okay, Cheese, my buff gal had frost on her crest. I'll be doing toe checks today hopefully to make sure they're all actually okay

It's so cold here I've been scraping frost off the inside of the lid to their coop. Never happened before this winter. Silkies seem to be handling it okay though, even the young ones.

I'll have to get some images of the ones I have right now, see if anyone here can guess what most of the chicks are. I know I've got one little girl and ones a crooked Beak so they're just growing right now until they're a better size, but the rest I'm hoping to have at least one or two males out of

He kinda looks porcelain, but shouldn't have those red feathers then

That's a good point, I cam see the confusion. I'm wanting to get a dominant white to breed with my partridge male to try and get some paints out of my mixed color pen

At least they're being used. Something has to happen with the extra birds, especially if they're male. Better than killing and tossing. It tastes like chicken as far as I know. They're smaller than most birds, but still possible to prep and cook.

Why would it be?

The only paint breeder I know that seemed like a safe choice sold all of her stock last fall

Does anyone have any place that they trust to get dominant white silkies from? I really would love to get some, but I'm quite wary of just getting ebay eggs due to disease risk

2 Whites and a blue?

She has 9 here, added a 10th (3rd sexlink boy) afterwards

Maybe cochin heavy? He doesn't exactly have to be 75% silkie, he just has to be lucky enough to have two parents that carry at least one silkie gene to each give him one

Okay it just wigged me out at first, cause it was.... off

I would love to do the barred ones too, but I'm doing silver base under gold base for now

Pure silkie, under a hen. So longer single toes are normal?

Silver female under gold male.

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It's all genetics