Hello all,
For the most part, things are running smoothly around our house. We adopted 9 hens last year that were in need of rehoming! They blessed us with 31 new chicks very shortly after arriving. We chose to rehome most of the chicks except for 6 young hens. Those young hens are starting to lay now. We have been blessed with a few dozen of the cutest little 'fairy eggs' recently. Everything from pigeon size(no yoke), to completely round, to long & skinny, to perfect shaped 1.5 in long eggs. Hey, gotta give the young ladies credit! They are trying hard. A few more weeks of practice and their eggs will be on the market.
We have kept a small flock of adorable little silkies for breeding, for some time now! Recently we acquired additional hatchery silkies and expanded our breeding. We have a silkie roo and 2 bantam frizzle roos for breeding. Everyone has their own coops and hens to keep all happy. It has been a very rewarding and interesting experience with the frizzle breeding. Because frizzle is a recessive gene, you never know what the babies will be, except 1/2 silkie, for sure. We get frizzles(flipped feathers), sizzles(flipped silkie hair-like feathers), silkies(flat hair-like feathers) and satins(flat feathers). All with 5 toes!
They are just adorable, fuzzy,little, friendly chicks!
Perfect pets!
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