Hey there! :) I LOVE silkies. It was one of the breeds I was planning on investing in at some point. I adore bantam silkies even more! What color is Fancy Pants? Brown, Grey, Silver? If we knew the base color it might help us figure out what the technical name for the color is. I'm glad to hear...
Sometimes these things just happen. Sometimes there isn't a cause (though I wouldn't know if there was or wasn't, I don't have very much experience with poultry). I'll be sending you warm thoughts and prayers in your time of hardship. RIP little hen.
I've been looking for an exact answer,but I can't seem to find quite what I'm looking for. Do hens/pullets lay eggs even without the rooster? Am I correct in assuming the only purpose for the rooster is to breed the hens?
I am extremely new to any sort of poultry. I've been interested in having a flock for a while now, but am about to get my oppurtunity in a couple of months when we purchase a new home, that just conveniently happened to have a chicken coop already.
As a child, my grandfather had chickens on his...