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They do have extra toes. Only extra spurred breeds I can thing of are Sumatras and something that starts with C...can't remember what though.
 
Yes, silkies have an extra toe. But my black silkie rooster had another small set of spurs, and my current silkie x game rooster has two small sets of spurs, above and below his regular spurs. Is it really that odd?
 
I have a 6 month old polish cockerel, he is very rough with the hens and almost constantly after them. Is this something that will ease off as he gets older or can I expect him to always be very rough with them?
 
nbro01h said:
I have a 6 month old polish cockerel, he is very rough with the hens and almost constantly after them. Is this something that will ease off as he gets older or can I expect him to always be very rough with them?
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From what I have read a 6 month old cockerel would be like a teenage boy with raging hormones. Once he hits a year old things should calm down and he may not need to mate so often. My 8 month old polish cockerel is not really rough with the girls, except he adores my Rhode Island Red. She is the only one that shows any feather damage at all. Apparently she has a lot of chicken sex appeal.
 
That's about what I was thinking. I'm still pretty new to chickens though so I wanted to make sure he wasn't gonna stay this...spunky. The head rooster gets after him for it, but it doesn't slow him down for long.
 
My Maran-silkie/polish cockerel is about 7 months old. We got him at about 4 months old & most of my 3 hens' eggs are not fertilized. When does the formula become fully leaded, so to speak? He's a great rooster: sweet to us, protective of the ladies. Also, while I have seen him do his rooster business, I haven't seen it that often. In fact, mostly, he seems kind of shy in such things. Is that possible?
 
ddpittman said:
My Maran-silkie/polish cockerel is about 7 months old. We got him at about 4 months old & most of my 3 hens' eggs are not fertilized. When does the formula become fully leaded, so to speak? He's a great rooster: sweet to us, protective of the ladies. Also, while I have seen him do his rooster business, I haven't seen it that often. In fact, mostly, he seems kind of shy in such things. Is that possible?
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I heard that trimming the hen's and the roo's fuzzy bum feathers can help. Never done it but it's worth a try.
 
I think we're getting another silkie cockerel. Six weeks old. We have seven hens and I know we need more, but will he be okay with our six month old chickens for a few months until we get more hens? I have never integrated a single bird into the flock younger then 4 months. We have 8 chickens in all, 1 silkie cockerel already, 4 ISA brown pullets, 1 JG pullet, and 1 silkie pullet. I think the silkie pullet and JG will like him because the JG is super sweet and the silkie has always been nice to other birds.
 
PerfectPlumage said:
I think we're getting another silkie cockerel. Six weeks old. We have seven hens and I know we need more, but will he be okay with our six month old chickens for a few months until we get more hens? I have never integrated a single bird into the flock younger then 4 months. We have 8 chickens in all, 1 silkie cockerel already, 4 ISA brown pullets, 1 JG pullet, and 1 silkie pullet. I think the silkie pullet and JG will like him because the JG is super sweet and the silkie has always been nice to other birds.
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Sounds like they will be fine.
 

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