Gonna eat this silkie

[Noymira]

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Is there something I don't know about silkies?

 

[RWD]

Noymira - They are sissy chickens, not a real mans bird.............................

 

[Noymira]

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OK, that makes sense!

I thought perhaps I had missed out on a secret! I don't raise my birds for anything other than eggs or meat, so silkies never really crossed my radar as an option for us.

 

[al6517]

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You hit the nail on the head.................. they are in the Foo-Foo class of poultry, silly looking hairdo birds with goofy names who everybody refers to "as Cute" LOL. Never much cared for them and they aren't real smart either.
But I have bought many at local auctions for the sole purpose to sell to the oreintal market...........for their tables, but they don't go into my pens because my birds make fun of them and call them names and the silkies cry hehehehehe.

 

[silkiechicken]

 

[Noymira]

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Edit to add, I do think they are cute as pets.

 

[al6517]

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Awwww shooot it ain't nothin you ain't heard before............. just a matter of preferance is all, and all in good fun.

 

[Oregon Blues]

Real men sometimes keep Silkies as broodies. Can't beat them for hatching eggs, and they don't care whose eggs.

 

[gmendoza]

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You need more catsup on those fries.Dont be stingy!

 

[SteveH]

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You hit the nail on the head.................. they are in the Foo-Foo class of poultry, silly looking hairdo birds with goofy names who everybody refers to "as Cute" LOL. Never much cared for them and they aren't real smart either.
But I have bought many at local auctions for the sole purpose to sell to the oreintal market...........for their tables, but they don't go into my pens because my birds make fun of them and call them names and the silkies cry hehehehehe.

You may have to eat your words someday Al. I read that a "secret' of one of the most successful White Cornish breeders was his use of a flock of scrub Silkie hens to hatch Cornish eggs. Don't know if this is fact or legend, but have been told by another that his hatches of Cornish are better when he lets one go broody. I'd rather let a Silkie sit on eggs then one of my Cornish, so have considered getting some.