Swimming Silkie ?!?

That woul be so cool - a silkie chook with choclate eggs. Our 1/2 silkie is 3 yr old and blind but still loves rain and sprinklers

Well, I have not tried to give my Silkies a bath yet, although, I know about birds and quite a few like to get wet and take bathes (birds are just very vain creatures). They do not for the most part like to be yucky. Although I have to say my banty hen loves to be dirty, if she isn't dirty she isn't happy. My white silkie, shes very shy and doesn't like to be fussed with, and hates being picked up, she runs from me all the time, now once I get her in my arms and start petting her shes right at home. But getting her to that point is quite the challenge. I don't know why she keeps runnin all the time she has to know I am not going to hurt her. But when I just sit there and watch her she comes right up to the cage front and makes these soft coos at me and then walks around like her poop don't stink. But I guess every chicken has they're own personality and like most birds, they either love you or they hate you, or they just tolerate you. I am going to have to see how she acts when it comes to water though. She doesn't get in her dish or anything (which is actually an old sauce pot) Its big enough for where if she wanted to get wet she could. But I have not seen her near it other then to get a drink.

I do know that my baby Silkies love water, they are always in there doing something, I have to change that water like 5x a day because they get it so nasty. I think they like to dunk they're feed in it or something.

Melissa