I am. Manchester, England just outside of a town called Bolton!
The polish are adorable. Tina is just beautiful and follows me around. Do you trim the feathers round their eyes regularly?
They do lay without one. I already had my cockerel when I got my silkie hen so that's the only thing I can think of but they should still lay. Maybe it's the cold weather x
I have some Bantams who are similar and someone suggested that they would probably start laying around February. My silkie started laying after she met my silkie cockerel Dixie. I have two cuckoos that just starting laying and are huge. x
I am new to Backyard Chickens. I run a wild bird rescue near Manchester and my first chicken was a baby silkie cockerel that I called Dixie. He was brought up with a pigeon and they were the best of friends. As Dixie got older and developed his crow I got him a girlfriend so he wouldn't be...
I adopted a speckledy hen a couple of weeks ago. It's friend was a silver/lavender bluebell and was killed in a dog attack along with a small bantam cockerel that lived there. As the hen - Bluebell -was alone I was asked to adopt her to live with my flock. She was quite nervous but seemed to get...