blue, black and splash bearded silkie cockerels
hatched april 2018, from cackle hatchery, cackle silkies are raised by the amish, selected for apa standards and exhibition.
merricks vaccinated.
loads of attention, they are very friendly, supper fluffy.
free to good homes
i have three silkies that are raising their chicks together, third time this year, only seems to work well if they set near eachother for tge last part of the brood at least, and then if the chicks all show up within a 24 hr or so span, so then the hens get off the nest together. at least...
yes, the vet repeated the surgery at owners request, and it had completely grown back from nothing in just a few weeks.
birds have an amazing capability for healing
chicken roosters all crow once mature.
there are other kinds of poultry that can be kept with or near chickens (some need seperate pens) of which the males are quieter
1) male ducks are very quiet, females quack, but the male is very quiet. ducks can be kept with chickens
2) muscovy, these are...
i worked as a vet tech for an avian and poultry vet years ago. the surgery is a castration or caponization. the testicle is sergically removed under anesthesia, the bird stops crowing for about 6 weeks, at which time they grow tge testicle completely back, and resume crowing again.
Roosters
some are from my own flock, or ordered from other breeders with good stock. others are from hatchery stock, and were vaccinated for merricks.
ages 3 months to 6 months, most are well socialized, some pure lap chickens.
pure bred:
-cream legbar out of jil rees line
-blue whaton...