I thought they would be fine too! I have been reading up on it gathering as much information as I can. The only thing that scares me if the biggest roo does pick on the smaller ones they're starting to noticeably have plucked or broken off feathers. I wonder if I just found a home for the white...
Does anyone have any female silkies? I have 3 males and I have to find two of them new homes and I don't want the pre-exsisting Roo to get depressed and lonely, they are in a coop by themselves because they're my babies. I'm near Lancaster, York, Shrewsbury, Dover, ect! Willing to drive up to an...
I got 3 silkie chicks straight run from a local farm about 13 weeks ago, we got one of each color, a white one, black one and a partridge? I think that's what it's called anyway.:idunno
Maybe a silkie expert can help me out? It's probably obvious to someone who has raised them before but I...
We have 4 chickens in the coop together and 3 silkies in a separate coop. The four in the big coop are RIR, buff orpington, Easter egger and a barred rock. I haven't been checking for eggs as faithfully as I should, and there were two in there yesterday. The first eggs! They looked the same in...
Hello! My name is Ashley and my fiancé and I just started our chicken "flock" a rooster wandered onto our property and has stayed with us for almost a year now. We recently bought him some chicks! (They were raised inside in the brooder and we're slowly introducing them to the outdoors, it's...
Hello! I'm new here, I keep looking and looking and asking people what breed My rooster could possibly be. He wandered onto our property about six months ago we have been feeding him. We have even made him a little wooden house in the pine tree that he roosts in every night. None of our...