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I had silkies once - too high maintenance, especially since I worked full time then. I had 'show quality' type silkies which meant that I had to give them haircuts and foot baths or they'd turn into blind mudballs. But they sure were cute! I like 'low maintenance' birds.
Having said that I just had to go figure out why no one wants to go in the coop tonight. Can't find any snakes or rats, so who knows?
I feel guilty for saying this in an open forum......are Silkies not the stupidest chickens?
It could be because their crest feathers/fluff get in the way of their vision, but dang! My Buff Silkie roo started doing the dance for my BCM roo today...pointing him toward food on the ground and kicked his feet with his wings pointed downward, sidling up to him. Needless to say the BCM kicked his fluffy butt all the way back into the coop.
I wonder if the Buff Silkie mistook him for some coppery mixed breed hens we have?
Oh I'll second that thought. I think that silkies are about as dumb as a box of rocks. Actually that's insulting to the poor defenceless rocks. I had 4 Silkie roos that couldn't think their way out of the run, through the coop, outside to free range FOLLOWING the hens. I mean, really? How dumb do you have to be to be trapped in the run when someone is SHOWING YOU THE WAY OUT? They were little guys when I put them in with the D'uccles, so the D'uccles mothered them and clucked at them to follow. They spent 3 days trapped in the run before one of them figured it out and the other 3 followed.
The Silkie hen is almost as bad. She pecked her own chick on the head when another chicken startled her. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb. But really really cute. So she's a keeper. (The boys are gone and not missed)
I thought I wanted Silkies. I was wrong. I won't bother to hatch any of her eggs, assuming I can find them since she hids them when she lays them.
