Are our rescue Silkies bantams?

[tallyho]

I just came across the website of a silkie breeder who states she selects for small silkies in her breeding program.

 

[lotzahenz]

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I have to say: You might want to go ahead and order the diapers, Silkies have a way of wanting to live in the house!

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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Actually, not correct. Other countries have both large fowl and bantam silkies. Our silkies in the US are all bantams, and size-wise are in between their large fowl and bantam sizes found in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Even some of our US silkies are getting pretty large.

Thats what I thought, our Silkies in Canada are in between bantam and standard size aswell.

 

[talleywacker]

Sorry guys, not all Silkies are bantams. I also thought that, until I read just the other day where there are two sizes of Silkies, standard and bantam and that the U.S. version falls in the middle of these two sizes. Check them out, some are so tiny!!