Updated pics of chick

this is the silkie/cuckoo marans, I call it a silkmarans. It even has a silkie comb

This message was edited May 4, 2008 3:39 PM

These are two silver sebrights, a golden sebright and a silkie/sebright mix that hatched a few days ago.

Here's the silkies I hatched. The middle one is the one with the big vaulted skull, the one of the left has just as big of a vault and the one on the right I hope will be a splash!! He might has curly toes nothing slows him down. He had dark kinda red feathers on his head when he was hatched and the others plucked them out. They are growing back in nicely as you can see in the next pic.
Forgot pic!


This message was edited May 4, 2008 3:46 PM

Here it is

Here he is

Hi LoraK--how old are the silkies now?

They were born April 13 & 14th. I had another hatch in the hen house this morning, she in an incubator till tomorrow.

How adorable. Beautiful little ones.

LoraK. Do you what is the best way to tell male and female silkies apart when young? We have some blue silkies and there are two I'm thinking may be roos, maybe only one.

There really isn't a way I know of. I have a theory that roo hold themselves more up right and their comb is wider than a pullets. Until my hen Dee, a dark partridge silkie, laid an egg I thought she was a roo! I know some breeders can do it with some degree of certainty. I haven't learned how to sorry I couldn't help.

Very cute pics. They all posed so perfectly!