You definitely got all satins 😊.
A well bred Satin is practically the same as a silkie, just with smooth feathers.
Here's a picture of my favorite Satin hen.
I'm impatiently waiting for mine to start laying. They are still pullets, only two Satins are actually laying, so unfortunately not enough to get my incubator started, so I just throw them under a broody hen. Luckily, I almost always have at least one hen brooding between my Cochins and...
I don't know how you get them to cooperate for photos 🤣
I can't wait for a nice warm day so I can try taking photos with my actual camera outside. These are cell phone photos and they would not stay still for my slow phone.
Pictured are some of my Silkie x Cochin girls. Trying to start my own...
Oh I'll certainly try to get some! The ones I have of the pullets are in the wrong format for this forum. But these are some simple cell photos of the roosters.
Oh how adorable! I'd love to see them mature.
Love the silkie Cochin cross. I have 14 of them and half thankfully turned out to be pullets. Can't wait for them to start laying so I can get the second generation!
I generally find my satins to literally be like a regular Silkie in every way but the feathering. Which makes sense as a well bred Satin has a lot of silkie blood in it.
Newbie to BYC 😊
Here's a little bit about myself.
(1) I've been raising chickens most of my life, so over 20 years. Not really sure when I officially started raising my own but I do know it was my mother's fault 😂
(2) Does it make sense that I don't currently know how many I have? 😅. I count...