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I'm trying to figure this one out and the only thing I'm coming up with is penguins have learned to fly and have snuck onto my farm to impregnate our hens. I'm sure like many of father, our white roosters breathed a sigh of relief when these hatched "Those aren't MY babies..."
But seriously, silkies can be black or white and even the white ones can have black babies (I think) specially when they've cross bred with bannies. This isn't the first time this has happened but the one last year didn't make it. These two are all black with white throats and little white spots on the tips of their wings. Black toes except the tip of the middle toe is yellow. Should be interesting to see how they turn out when they get older as some of our other chicks have changed colors as they aged.
This is what their father would look like if he didn't keep getting his tail feathers pulled out http://web-japan.org/nipponia/nippo.....nimal/25_1.jpg
But seriously, silkies can be black or white and even the white ones can have black babies (I think) specially when they've cross bred with bannies. This isn't the first time this has happened but the one last year didn't make it. These two are all black with white throats and little white spots on the tips of their wings. Black toes except the tip of the middle toe is yellow. Should be interesting to see how they turn out when they get older as some of our other chicks have changed colors as they aged.
This is what their father would look like if he didn't keep getting his tail feathers pulled out http://web-japan.org/nipponia/nippo.....nimal/25_1.jpg
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Avian (Other)
Size 417 x 286px
File Size 97.7 kB
If its like the other cross breeds we have they'll be big babies. I have one who looks like a bannie hen but has feathers running down her legs to her feet and some white to her coloration. She likes riding on my shoulder and will fly up onto me without warning. I'm feeding every one and suddenly have a parrot/chicken. We have another cross breed who's going to be cute if his color stays as it is. Looks like a roost so far but I don't bother looking to check sex until they get older (where I can just look at their comb to tell, no lifting tail feathers). He'll be mostly black but have a crest of feathers on his head. I really need to find out the name of the breed their great(x8)grandmother is, she's still around too. She's a normal white feathered chicken with a red face and feathers on her legs.
I'd take a picture of a couple of our 'special' chickens to see if your still hungry but I'd probably get hate mail for it. Before the question comes up as to what I mean by special, I still have a couple chickens with crock neck and one hen with a deformed leg that the roosters about plucked bald before we locked them up. Despite being 'special' they seem to live active lives, though a couple of them have to be caged for their own safety, we let them out in the spring and summer in fenced in areas to run around so they are safe. Chickens (at least ours) have a thing for being mean to 'special' chickens.
The hens hatch them out and raise them, but if they are born 'different' aka some thing wrong with them, then we bring them in the house and raise them by carrying them around with us all day and putting them on heat pads during the night. Used to have an incubator but not used it in years. Silkie hens are very 'broody' to the point that some farmers will take the eggs/chicks away from their hens and let silkies raise them.
hmm
most egg laying varieties ive come across here wont brood worth anything as its been bred out of them ages ago.
Every great once in awhile I will get a hen who is broody, so i try and let her set on a clutch of eggs.
Most times the coons or possums will get to them before they finish, so im building a predator proof nursery.
just some useless info :)
bear
most egg laying varieties ive come across here wont brood worth anything as its been bred out of them ages ago.
Every great once in awhile I will get a hen who is broody, so i try and let her set on a clutch of eggs.
Most times the coons or possums will get to them before they finish, so im building a predator proof nursery.
just some useless info :)
bear
Ours are all on the floor in our open barn and we 'usually' don't have a problem despite have many coons/skunks/ect. visit our place nights. As soon as they hatch we put them into a cage until they are about 2 months old and then start letting them run free (we let them out into pens outside before then). I suggest you invest in some catch'em alive traps (available at most feed & Tackle stores. We used them to remove a lot of problem critters to keep the chicks safe (if you trap a skunk, don't worry. Just walk up slowly and put a blanket over the cage, they stay pretty calm this way. Then just carry it to a truck and put it in the back, drive it out some where and with the cage still covered, open it from behind. They'll take off pretty quick). For other pests, I have a 410 with scatter shot. the Saiga 410 is a nice semi-auto if you can find them, no need to be accurate when unloaded a full mag of scatter shot :)
well mine are free range in about a 2 acre enclosure, plus i lock them up at night now, so i dont loose anymore to passing critters.
I have tried those catch and release traps, and they always pass them by no matter what bait i use and go after the hens 9guess they are tastier).
i have had to shoot a few critters in the past, but id prefer not to have to do it, and just make it to where nothing can get to em anymore.
I usually keep my small ones inside till they are about 2 months old aswell, and by that time they are ready to go out with the big girls :)
Bear
I have tried those catch and release traps, and they always pass them by no matter what bait i use and go after the hens 9guess they are tastier).
i have had to shoot a few critters in the past, but id prefer not to have to do it, and just make it to where nothing can get to em anymore.
I usually keep my small ones inside till they are about 2 months old aswell, and by that time they are ready to go out with the big girls :)
Bear
Ooo so yours are the Dark Meat version of Crunchy Chicks?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFD3MjKTMo#t=25s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFD3MjKTMo#t=25s
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