Can anyone tell me what breed this may be? I was told she was a silkie cross. Her eyes, comb, beak and ear lobes are all black. I am not sure if you can see it very well but she does have the feathers on her feet. She is about a year old. She is about the size of a silkie rooster maybe a...
I have two silkie cross roosters from crossing a silkie rooster with an ISA Brown hen. If I mate them with a silkie cross hen will any resulting hens have more of the silkie broodiness? Or should I pair these roosters with silkie hens? They are slightly bigger than a regular silkie rooster...
I have two female and two male Pekin ducks. At least I was told that they were all Pekin. One male and one female are white the other two are a buff color.they are just over a year old. The buff female has been broody three times this year already. She would sit on her nest but her eggs would...
I started raising chickens about three years ago. I started with two Rhode Island Red hens and two Silkie hens. All four were given to me. The silkies they thought were roosters but, to my surprise and delight they were hens.
My flock has grown from there now I have close to 100 total. Most...