They sure are! Two of my silkied Reds are in the broody buster now, Donna and Rowena. Those two went broody last summer and were in the buster for literal months before finally breaking. 😩 If I had the space in the coop to divide off for a broody pen, I'd consider letting them raise some of the babies in the incubator now...
Fuzzies!
Just thought I'd show off some pictures of my lil fuzzy silkied Cochin bantam kids from yesterday. 😁 The numbers are their hatch order, just for my reference. They hatched at the end of May, so they're roughly 2-and-a-half months old now. It's hard to tell from pictures because some of them are suuuper dark, but Wash, Diesel, Hank, and Harley are my Blues, and the rest of them are Black.
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Also, here are Myrtle, Dandy, and Zinnia, last year's babies, hanging out in their little tarp hammock yesterday. Gus was too busy with big, important rooster business to come over for a picture, I guess. 🤣
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Also, here are Myrtle, Dandy, and Zinnia, last year's babies, hanging out in their little tarp hammock yesterday. Gus was too busy with big, important rooster business to come over for a picture, I guess. 🤣
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Whoops, not sure why it double posted! 
That's for sure!! I'm trying to keep busy with other stuff, but I just have to keep peeking! We're up to 3 pips on the Chocolates and 5 pips on the BBS eggs now! EDIT: Make that 6 BBS eggs pipped!
I'm trying to keep busy with other stuff, but I just have to keep peeking! We're up to 3 pips on the Chocolates and 5 pips on the BBS eggs now! EDIT: Make that 6 BBS eggs pipped!
I had a long night and not much sleep, but we're sitting at 8 babies as of right now! 5 Blues and 2 that are either dark Blue or Black from the BBS eggs, plus one little Chocolate! They're resting under the heat plate, so no pictures just yet.
The remaining 3 BBS eggs, plus one Chocolate egg and both of the eggs from Gus's girls are all externally pipped, and I see movement in the air cells of two of the remaining Chocolate eggs. I think the other three Chocolate eggs have quit on us, though, so here's hoping these last three with movement will hatch. 🙏
They're resting under the heat plate, so no pictures just yet.The remaining 3 BBS eggs, plus one Chocolate egg and both of the eggs from Gus's girls are all externally pipped, and I see movement in the air cells of two of the remaining Chocolate eggs. I think the other three Chocolate eggs have quit on us, though, so here's hoping these last three with movement will hatch. 🙏
Haha, yup, I'm checking in with a report! We are sitting at 15 babies with number 16 hatching as I type this! 😁 I do think the last three eggs are goners, but I'll check them later once the 16th baby is out and make sure.
I haven't taken stock of how many are Blue and how many are Black out of the silkieds, but there are 12 of those babies, plus three Chocolates, and the last one working on hatching should be a Chocolate Cuckoo. Once they're all out, dried, and in the brooder, I'll do a mass photo shoot and show them off. They are too precious!!
I haven't taken stock of how many are Blue and how many are Black out of the silkieds, but there are 12 of those babies, plus three Chocolates, and the last one working on hatching should be a Chocolate Cuckoo. Once they're all out, dried, and in the brooder, I'll do a mass photo shoot and show them off. They are too precious!!
Here are some group pictures of them! First, all 16! This was absolute madness!
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My tally for colors is 6 for sure silkied Blues:
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4 for sure silkied Blacks and one that I'm not sure if it's a really dark Blue or a Black as well. The one I'm not sure of is front and center here:
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Three smooth Chocolates and one Chocolate Cuckoo (the one all the way to the right). Not sure how I feel about them thus far; they are beautiful babies, but I don't like how sparse those leg feathers are on some of them, and at least one of them appears to have white legs as I wondered if they would with Orpington in their background. I can work with this, though!
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The last of the 16 babies is this little one. I know for sure that only four Chocolate eggs hatched, that the two out of Gus's pen were solid Black because I leg banded them as they hatched, and that all ten of the silkied BBS eggs that made it to lockdown hatched, and I only have 11 Blue and Black chicks (9 from the BBS eggs and two from Gus's pen), so this little one had to have come with the silkied BBS eggs. I recall her mentioning on her farm page that she was working on a project that involved crossing Reds and Blacks together, so I wonder if maybe she accidentally sent me an egg from that pen. That does mean that this little one may not be silkied, and even if it is, will not be useful for my breeding pens. Like the cuckoo, though, I have no problem keeping her in my mixed flock as long as she's a pullet. 🤷♀️
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I'll work on getting more individual pictures of them this weekend!
My tally for colors is 6 for sure silkied Blues:
4 for sure silkied Blacks and one that I'm not sure if it's a really dark Blue or a Black as well. The one I'm not sure of is front and center here:
Three smooth Chocolates and one Chocolate Cuckoo (the one all the way to the right). Not sure how I feel about them thus far; they are beautiful babies, but I don't like how sparse those leg feathers are on some of them, and at least one of them appears to have white legs as I wondered if they would with Orpington in their background. I can work with this, though!
The last of the 16 babies is this little one. I know for sure that only four Chocolate eggs hatched, that the two out of Gus's pen were solid Black because I leg banded them as they hatched, and that all ten of the silkied BBS eggs that made it to lockdown hatched, and I only have 11 Blue and Black chicks (9 from the BBS eggs and two from Gus's pen), so this little one had to have come with the silkied BBS eggs. I recall her mentioning on her farm page that she was working on a project that involved crossing Reds and Blacks together, so I wonder if maybe she accidentally sent me an egg from that pen.
That does mean that this little one may not be silkied, and even if it is, will not be useful for my breeding pens. Like the cuckoo, though, I have no problem keeping her in my mixed flock as long as she's a pullet. 🤷♀️
I'll work on getting more individual pictures of them this weekend!
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