I've been raised around chickens my whole life, Mostly Game birds. but it all REALLY started when i saw a pair of bearded white silkie bantams at the flea market six years ago.
I took them home and marved over how the hen kept deligent watch over the dyed easter chicks bought the month before, I...
I would Love to see better Photo Qaulity, but from what I can see they look beautiful The rooster appears to have very big soiledd color blotches-I dont think I've ever seen that before! He's beautiful. I Love the Hens Top Hat
Henry- From My experience Silkie Hens make the Greatist little...
Swift Has alot more room to Roam Now-a-days
Chiyoko's Amonia burns have all healed since he's come to live with me.
Michiko's Gotten BIG!
Momoko's Grown alot of feathers back in the few months of had her.
Amaya's doing well, even with her crooked face.
Ayano's been...laying eggs LOL...
Beautiful American gamecock, and pretty hens too! the second is some kind of old english game hen.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/AmerGameBantams/BRKAmerGameBty.html
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/BRKAmerGame.html
LOL yeah, its actaully more commen for those kind of mixs to adopt more features from the Cochin than the Silkie, also because single combs are also a recessive silkie gene. i have a pure silkie with the gene and just recently saw a rooster with the gene on this chat board.
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LOL Ezzyo is a lady.
if you choose the Silkies with the Biggest Tophats and selectivly breed them it would be easy to get the tophats bigger throughout the genarations.
your featherbabies are quite beautiful! but its very hard to sex silkies when there small, i would need closer pics, and even then im not sure i could tell....
FrizzleXSilkies dont usaully have too big of poofs, but they do grow up to be quite beautiful! heres mine:
I think your (second picture) white is a pullet, all the rest look like Roo's or arnt good enough picture qaulity.