Hello all,
I ordered a batch of chicks back at the end of September last year. In that batch I ordered 3 cuckoo silkie hens that were gauranteed hens, or I'd get a refund.
One of the chicks ended up being the wrong color and I was given a refund for it already. Since they're about the age...
I've got quite a bit of incubating going on as I've been buying exhibition/show quality eggs plus hatching my own.
2025 Breeding Pens:
MB, Winnie, Ember, and Marsha is somewhere in there
Mocha, Charlotte, and a couple of black hens
Lester the lemon cuckoo, Carol, Tina, and Tanja...
This is my 14 week old silkie pullet Smoky. Normal cuckoos should be darker right? Like with dark black stripes. Some lady once told me she is a chocolate cuckoo, but she doesn't look too brown besides a slight brownish hue on her back. I got a blue cuckoo (I think) from the same breeder.
Is...
I was wondering, since self blue in breeding breeding acts the same as black (the only difference being that the chicks carry lavender) How would cuckoo act? I have this silkie chick (I desperately hope she's a pullet) and I think she's a cuckoo. But from far away she looks blue. I'm not...