ooh they sound beautiful would love to see some pics! I'm building up a little flock of silkies in the hopes of breeding some of my own next year,here's a pic of one of last night's hatchlings,so cute I had to share:
So happy to hear she's a real vorwerk, didn't even intend to buy any chicks that day,only got her because my 8 year old son was shot in the arm (just a nasty bruise) by a bb gun at the fair by some unruly teens and nothing cheers him up like a chick! We were just lucky to have some the same age...
This has me very excited now, so any breed of chicken? Is there any that would be preferable? And should I use an araucana rooster or hen to breed with?
We have araucana's but that's it, Was considering hatching some earlier this year but from what I heard their eggs are quite small and they don't lay much or maybe it was because they were bantam types can't remember now,will hatch some in the new year if I can get large breed,I avoid ee or...
our kids all go to same school so I see him regularly I will ask him,not sure where you are but I imagine it's a long way from Ireland not sure if eggs would make it that distance!
here she is now at 7 months,
what do you think? I think maybe her coloring is a little dark,but she has got the blue ear lobes, also she's been the most difficult of this years chicks to tame,but maybe that's because we got her at 3 weeks and all the others we hatched ourselves,it's only...
the guy i bought it off has i think, a quite good rep for knowing his birds,so i thought he could be trusted,but i really don't mind it's breed, just very curious
hi everyone, bought a three week old chick from a guy i know at our local fair today,it's the same age as our 3 light sussex so is settling in nicely with them,anyway guy told me it was a vorwerk so home we came and looked them up online and he/she looks nothing like one! got some pics but...