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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amanda
East Texas
USA
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 Posted - Nov 10 2011 : 4:59:30 PM
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I have been hatching out baby Silkies like crazy around here. We have a virtual Silkie rainbow! Trying for Showgirl chicks, but I have too many Silkie roos and only one Showgirl roo, so about to make him the only one in that pen.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone else is a big Silkie fan.
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batznthebelfry
True Blue Farmgirl
1257 Posts
Michele
Athol
Ma
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 11:19:23 AM
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I adore silkies & frizzles....I have had them in the past & they are the sweetest birds plus just so darned cute! Right now the only small one I have is a sarama roo that is considered the smallest chicken out there.....the hens lay quarter size eggs....lol....I got him when a friend got rid of her chickens due to illness....I would love to get more silkies again....Did you get any lavender colored ones? they are so pretty but then again they are all so pretty....Michele'
Chickens rule!
The Old Batz Farm
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1145 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 2:38:33 PM
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Michele,
Ugh, I keep calling the things lavenders, but they are greys. I swear! Getting old. Still, they are very cute. I believe that grey is the same as partridge with the red coloring removed. They will be cute birds, even still. LOTS of partridge, that's for sure. I also have a Frizzle hen. Hope that she'll breed to one of these Silkies and we'll get some sizzles! I did have a Frazzle (both parents were Frizzles, resulting in the ugliest bird known to man), but she passed away last week. :0(
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batznthebelfry
True Blue Farmgirl
1257 Posts
Michele
Athol
Ma
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 9:16:50 PM
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I know that the lavenders are called grays but up here everyone calls them lavenders like my gray ( lavender) orpington...lol...thank goodness most chicken people know what we mean when we say lavender...I had a double gene frizzle...poor baby only lived maybe 8-12 months....last 3 months it started losing all its feathers but they never came back...part of the gene problems..your frizzle that died probably got hit with the double gene with both parents...so sad.....Michele'
Chickens rule!
The Old Batz Farm
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
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Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Nov 15 2011 : 06:52:45 AM
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Absoutly CRAZY for silkies!!
They are my hobby chicken, and it drives my husband crazy!
This past spring I bought some chicks from a friend, and w/in a 24 hour period , they were all snatched and eaten right out of the brooder!
come to find out -it was a neighbor's ferral cat. Said cat disappeared, and I in my heartbroken state, jumped online and proceded to order more silkies from Cackle hatchery. I wanted just 15, but becasue this was February and still kind of cold, I was talked into ordering 25....well, the very nice hatchery on top of the 25 ALSO sent 5 more to insure everybody would survive!
So for a while there, I had silkies coming out of my ears!!! it was wonderful. Most of these were the bearded, lots of whites, 3 splashes, and mostly blacks. Out of all these, one is indeed a white showgirl. she is beautiful. Hopefully she'll survive into spring and I can breed her with my one decent white siklie rooster. I have a "loveshack" reserved to pull out select pairs so the genetics can be controled.
These are such comical and pretty birds......always nice to compare notes with like minded chicken folks 
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amanda
East Texas
USA
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Posted - Nov 15 2011 : 10:19:31 AM
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Lol, well I drive my hubbs nuts, too, with all the chickens, but he doesn't really mind since they're...useful. haha! In fact, we are building a silkie coop right now. Gotta get back to it. It's gonna look like a little barn with a tin roof.
I need to get rid of 2 of my roos so I can get some Showgirls. The other roos are running off my Showgirl roo. Grrr. Lol
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
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Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 03:58:49 AM
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Thank goodness I actually have a market for the eggs!
A lady actually buys a dozen eggs each week and gives those to her dogs. So it;s not a complete loss. I also feed the eggs to my own dog when there is an excess.
All total now, we have about 70 chickens with 17 of those being silkies. I think. We have 3 coops
Best wishes on your own venture!
p.s.
This year at the state fair, the silkie contigency was well represented! Two rows of some mighty pretty birds! But the stand out by far was a black Polish rooster whose white mop top was so long, he looked like a blond flipping his hair too and fro 'cause he couldn't see!
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