satin

I have an egg from a batch of 6 that hasn’t hatched yet. All the other eggs finished yesterday and I’m just wondering if this one isn’t alive anymore. I finally decided to candle it this morning to check for movement and didn’t see anything. Any thoughts on if I should just call it quits or give...

I am drowning in frizzle chicks (black, white, brown), satin chicks, silkies - one week old. My girl hid eggs and they are everywhere. I also have a juvenile roo (black fluffy pic) and an adult Mottled Houdan Rooster. He's very friendly. I have way too many chickens, plz send help...

So this is a project that I’m working on. I’ve got this beautiful Pencil Laced Satin hen and I’m trying to decide which color rooster would best compliment her color? I would like to produce more of her color pattern. I had one person tell me to pair her with a gray rooster. Thoughts?

Hello! I brought home a frizzle satin a few weeks ago. The rancher was unsure of her exact age, but suspected her to be about 5 months old- I think she may be younger based off her feathering. On Friday I noticed she started walking oddly. She always races around the coop and is hard to...

my brain is fried, trying to understand these genetics. is this correct? can anyone share photos? I'm breeding specifically with silkies and satins, but any pics help. dun x dun = 1/4 khaki, 1/4 black, 1/2 dun dun x blue = 100% platinum

What color would this satin silkie be?

Lizzy Satin at 10 months old

Good Morning All! I got a group of satin/silkie chicks about 5 months ago. Of the 5, two are for sure roosters. They look like roosters, and they started fighting. However, I have a satin frizzle which I find very hard to sex. It’s not acting like a rooster, but that doesn’t really mean anything...

Cutie is my daughter's chicken. I say Cutie is a boy. She said I needed to post on here to see if anyone thinks Cutie actually is a girl before Cutie goes elsewhere. Thoughts? Cutie will be 6 months old next week. The attached photos are from a week or so ago. No crowing. No laying. No dancing...

Added 5 more babies to the flock over the weekend! They integrated pretty quickly with my 5 hens (6 months old). They were raised in the coop and free ranging so they took to my coop/yard pretty quick. According to the person I got them from, they’re about 7 weeks old 😁 Anxious to see how many...

Hello! I bought bird as a pullet - I didn’t get to pick out which one as the seller had these two already set aside. Once I got home I started wondering if this was actually a rooster? Thoughts? Hatched in March! Trying to decide if I send off for DNA testing since i can’t have roosters at my...

Anyone up for a little gender guessing? I've got 2 satins and 2 silkies. All about 7 weeks old except the mauve silkie is about a week older. I am so very fortunate to know for certain the gender of THREE of these cuties! I have a guess on the fourth but it is not confirmed. I'm excited to...

SO I was originally going to end up with silky chicks today—! woops they’re actually satins. I’ve done a fair share of research 🔬 on the silky breed, but virtually nothing for Satins! Never owned either, new adventure! Do you have any experience with this type of Silky?? I’d love to hear...

Newbie to BYC 😊 Here's a little bit about myself. (1) I've been raising chickens most of my life, so over 20 years. Not really sure when I officially started raising my own but I do know it was my mother's fault 😂 (2) Does it make sense that I don't currently know how many I have? 😅. I count...

I'm not sure when exactly Satins can be sexed. It's kinda hard to see though the wire, I apologize for that. If I need to take better pictures, let me know. Thanks in advance!

Interested in breeding satin silkie with normal silkie. What would the outcome be?

Hello everyone, I’m currently dabbling with ideas for breeding projects on our Silkies and Satins. Currently I have 2 buff satins, that I really want to try to breed more out off. and I have a blue-partridge satin Hen, and her offspring which is a blue hen Now I know this wouldn’t be SOP...

Hi, I bought some silkie chicks and most of them have hard feathering. I'm planning to breed the hard feathered ones with the chicks with the correct feathers. How many generations I'd need to breed before all the chicks I hatch have the fluffy Silkie feathering?

Alright, hope im not in over my head here. I want to make sure I have this atleast somewhat right. I have this satin showgirl. And all of birds from the same hatch are showgirls except one roo. Who I guess is not a showgirl but rather a silkie because his neck is feathered ? but he's a silkie...

Molly was sold to me as a hen but there's quite a bit of color going on.....opinions?? 4 months old.