Arkansas folks speak up.........

[chickensnewtome]

this is him/her i think

 

[Ozarkguy]

 this is him/her i think

If it has black skin it a silkie/silkie cross and they have a fifth toe

 

[chickensnewtome]

yup he does. Never had a silkie before. He is from a full blood hatchery batch from cackle. I am sure he is all silkie. Well that is neat. I am excited.

 

[JFreeman]

yup he does. Never had a silkie before. He is from a full blood hatchery batch from cackle. I am sure he is all silkie. Well that is neat. I am excited.

I have a silkie that I love. She's a paint, and looked similar to yours as a baby.


This is what she looks like now. I named her Poof.


Yours will go through an ugly molting stage (they all do). Don't get discouraged, it's normal.

 

[chickensnewtome]

aww! I have never had a silkie. Any raising advice? Are they finicky? What is there personality like? this is a first for me. I am excited but nervous

 

[chickensnewtome]

mine has little black spots on her head. Alot like yours.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

It is my understanding that most silkies do not roost so don't be surprised if it sleeps on the "floor". Just make sure you have some nice clean thick bedding where it will be. Also silkies are hard to "sex" early. They seem to develop later than others. We had a lone silkie as well. It turned out to be a roo and we ended up selling him. Too many boys.

Our other chickens didn't seem to realize he was a chicken, much less a roo, so that is something to consider as well. If you have other banties they might accept him/her better.

Have fun. He was very friendly. Also, I understand some females tend to be broody.

 

[chickensnewtome]

he/she will be raised with 8 other bantams and 5 Ameracauna chicks. So maybe they wont pick on him/her.

 

[JFreeman]

As long as they are all raised together, I don't think you'll have a problem. I would worry a little bit if one of your EEs is a cockerel, if you plan to keep them in the same coop. I have a LF EE cockerel (Bandit) in the same coop with Poof, and it's a little hard on her when he tries to mate with her. (My husband is building me a new coop for her, but the project has been set back a bit.) She is well accepted in my flock because she is the first chicken I owned. She was the original flock that came in with 3 other silkies. When it was time to add, the pullets and cockerels were about the same size as the silkies, since the silkies were about a month older. I sold the other three silkies because they were all roos, and Silkies were not a breed I wanted to procreate. Poof is my only Bantam, and she does well to provide comfort to my young pullets and cockerels as they come in the coop. I set a bench in my coop that has a low bar that sits maybe 6" off the floor. At night she will either hop up on the bench seat or she will roost on the low bar.

I'm keeping her because she will eventually become broody and be my natural incubator, plus she's just fluffy and cute. I will probably add another silkie pullet at some point since I have a local source, but not for a little while.

As for adding a cockerel later, I wouldn't if you have any other roos. A friend brought me a silkie cockerel because she was over-run with boys. My boys knew exactly what the silkie rooster was, and attacked it. I took the cockerel out immediately. Couldn't keep him.

 

[chickensnewtome]

all of the ameracaunas are "supposed" to be pulletts