How did this happen?
by killjoy08
Anthro Art commissioner
15 years ago
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
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Do you use an incubator, or let a hen be broody?
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
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFD3MjKTMo#t=25s