My chicks hatched today as well! Spent the whole day before work watching then run around as mum protested from the nest. Yours are just so adorable, and I love their colours. Ours are all yellow or white, 4 hatched so far but as mum hasn't left the nest yet we're suspecting there is more on the...
Hi everyone
Our little silke/bantam has just hatched out 5 eggs. None of these are hers though. The eggs all came from our Hiline hens and a Light Sussex rooster. I'm desperate to see what there might look like and was wondering if anyone had a picture of this mix? Or could describe what they...
Wow. Yes I do mean Light Sussex >.< Feeling like a bit of an idiot now.
In my defence, my brain is working very well right now, I just spent 5 hours writing a politics and law essay :P
Silke/Bantams make great mums! One of ours just hatched her fifth little chick today, and she's sitting on 9 eggs. Great little mother, determined and didn't get flustered by us or other chooks at all, also very protective. Good luck with your little chickies!
We have two little silkes (and I agree btw! The cutest, most sweetest and charismatic chickies silkes are)
Personally, I haven't has a single problem with my silkes. Are chooks are 100% free range, and we've never had one taken by a predator or die of any other causes. For us, the only problem...
We recently received two silke/bantams from a friend of ours. Pretty soon they went broody and we allowed them to sit on eggs, which were fertilised by our rooster (however these eggs are not silke/bantam eggs there hiline eggs)
At first, one of the hens (Eugene) sat for two weeks on eggs, but...