CREATE YOUR OWN BREED OF CHICKEN

[silkiemother]

if you succeed you should post pics of the results

 

[SueT]

if you succeed you should post pics of the results

I will, but so far, she's been downright hostile to him, and also everyone has stopped laying for the winter, so I'm not holding my breath....

 

[silkiemother]

can't blame her,he is a rooster and sometimes roosters have no manners.at my place,every single hen hates a different rooster it it so funny because these hens no my rooster won't bother them because my boys are too small for my hens.

 

[The Moonshiner]

can't blame her,he is a rooster and sometimes roosters have no manners.at my place,every single hen hates a different rooster it it so funny because these hens no my rooster won't bother them because my boys are too small for my hens.

Lol. Poor roosters always getting the blame.
Sometimes hens are just b!tches.

 

[silkiemother]

my hen jewel can be one sometimes:she likes to get out and then run back and forth in front of the wire trying to get back in,attacks our poor little OEGB rooster,and is super mean to dandy dodo our barred rock

 

[MysteryChicken]

Okay.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Okay.

In other countries there are LF and bantam silkies. Here in the states our silkies are considered bantams but they're in between the sizes of the other countries.
If I wanted to make some big ones I think I'd cross silkie with large show type cochins.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I was going to create giant silkies using brahmas. My Purebred Chinese Silkie roo would be a perfect breeder.

 

[The Moonshiner]

What makes him a "Chinese" silkie? Whats the difference in them and any other silkie?

 

[MysteryChicken]

The white standard to medium-sized silkies are the original breed line. The colored varieties including bantam silkies have D'uccle, or bantam Cochin within their genetics.