is there a interest in some standard silkie eggs

[shadowpaints]

ok so i know i have posted a few times about my birds. im working hard on getting the combs right, but thats going to be a long process and would love to see if there is some interest in buying some eggs to help us out. our adult standard silkie hens weigh about 8-10 lbs. for some reason some of the original pullets had a single comb we have them in with a buff rooster as that is all i have silkie wise with a correct comb. there are 11 white in the pen and 4 bantam silkies in the pen.
these girls go broody like crazy and can easily fit 12 egg under them lol

things we need to work on are:
better feathered legs and feet
combs.


i would like to see the vaulted skulls, but thats not important right now.

at the moment we are getting 5-7 eggs a day. i dont feel right shipping eggs for another 2 weeks as i had a cochin roo in there up untill a week ago. so i could take orders to ship out in 2 weeks or so, and i would know they would be pure.

what do you all think?

this is what the hens look like

next to a sexlink hen (pic from last year)

i have come to realize i cannot do this with just one other person helping me

should i just post a auction for eggs and see what happens?

 

[silkieluver_07]

Four years ago I ordered from JM Hatchery and got Wooly (she weighs around 3.5 poulds, very large bodied for a silkie hen) Try contacting them? They sell only whites but I got a couple partridge and black from them. You could just weed out the single combs and breed your birds to them to achieve the correct comb.

 

[shadowpaints]

ok took a few pics today, here we go! i have a scale on my list of things to buy...

normal silkie egg on the right, standard silkie egg on the left

2nd generation hen, hatched in november 2010 the comb is getting better

again the hen that was born in november, next to my biggest 2 year old bantam hen

evyle, 1st generation hen. one of the original pullets. she is the same height as my Standard cochin roo, and just as hefty. my 7 year old daughter, who can pick up a gallon of milk cant pick this hen up

evyle and her daughter

another hen standing by a few of my bantams

thought you all might enjoy seeing some new pics. here are the 2 roosters that are in there with the girls

jerry, buff roo, semi decent comb, exellent feathering on the legs and toes

king, awesome comb, awesome leg feathering, blue splash roo


what do u think?

 

[bluenkimchi]

I have one of these large non standard body type silkie hen/pullet? too(did have a trio but 2 of them died) and can get more for very cheap. They are sold as meat silkie to the Asian community in town here.The owner has been selling these large silkie for decades around town.


cockerel with a Brahma rooster



pullet? with mature bantam hen( it's the only one still alive today)

 

[nikkers390]

Hi

Just found this thread. For the last 1.5 year I am working on making very large (this is the goal) silkies. Indeed I don't care about the phenotype.I need only one feature - broodiness.

Since I could not find any good over sized silkies, I started with breading silkies with standard cochin (both ways). F1 generations are 7-month-old now. It looks like that broodiness is not a dominant trait.

It mean that I have to now breed F1 to F1, hoping that few of them will be as broody as silkies.

Meanwhile I am looking for eggs/chicks/mature silkies that are over sized. Does anybody know or have any larger then bantam silkies????

Thank you,
Olga

Her is my finding. Purely Poultry sells broiler silkies. They don't seem to be huge but should reach 5#. The problem is buying 25 min. Way more than I want. My intent is also super broodies. I don't care about confirmation since breeding them for show is out. I would like to use these to get funky mixes from my LF flock. So if anyone has some "giant" silkies, please let me know. I would love a dozen eggs or so. This is like looking for treasure. You hear about them but no one has them.
Have a Blessed, healthy and Prosperous New Year

 

[Rdgrant19]

Have you found a way to gets these going???

 

[nikkers390]

if anyone has, I'm interested.

 

[Batty about Banties]

OMgosh those are too cute!!!

I would definatley be interested but I have never done the "breeding" thing so I dont know how to change combs or feathered feet......

 

[japbantams2011]

those are so cute in standard size how much are you asking for eggs?

 

[muddyhorse]

very cool. I have a pretty good sized roo.....