is there a interest in some standard silkie eggs

[phasianidae]

How did you develop them?

 

[shadowpaints]

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i started with a few abnormally huge silkies that i accidently found. working on breeding the original hens and their granddaughters with the best quality bigger roo i can find. we are working on making them more 'typy' too

ill be posting a auction for 8+ eggs on the 20th. the auction will be for 5 days. i will gather eggs from the 25th-27th. just incase you all were wondering!

 

[JenEric Farms]

8-10 lbs! That's AWESOME!

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

I really like those.Glad you told us about them.

 

[silkieluver_07]

Four years ago I ordered from JM Hatchery and got Wooly (she weighs around 3.5 poulds, very large bodied for a silkie hen) Try contacting them? They sell only whites but I got a couple partridge and black from them. You could just weed out the single combs and breed your birds to them to achieve the correct comb.

 

[SabaiFarms]

I want some! How awesome!

I will be watching for the auction!

 

[Debbi]

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Don't mean to sound judgemental here, but have you actually weighed these birds, or are you just guessing the weight? I don't do bantams, but the idea of a LF Silkie does appeal to me! 8-10 pound hens sounds like what I would like to have, but do you have any pics with them on a scale like one of the posters did? Call me skeptical, but a 10 pound hen is more like the size of a Brahma. I'm from Missouri, the "show me state"!

Thanks!

 

[shadowpaints]

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Don't mean to sound judgemental here, but have you actually weighed these birds, or are you just guessing the weight? I don't do bantams, but the idea of a LF Silkie does appeal to me! 8-10 pound hens sounds like what I would like to have, but do you have any pics with them on a scale like one of the posters did? Call me skeptical, but a 10 pound hen is more like the size of a Brahma. I'm from Missouri, the "show me state"!

Thanks!

i do not have a pic of one on a scale. but i can tell you this, they are as big as my Standard blue cochin roo. my smallest hen is about 6 lbs and the biggest is 10. the resulting chicks from these wont be as big, simply because i havent been keeping the roosters, i have been getting silkie roosters that are just a pound or 2 bigger than normal.
i have another seperate pen trying to get a big rooster, but that will be a while
also, if you look at the pic in the beggining, the hen standing next to a RIR hen is only abour 4-5 months old, and she was bigger than the RIR then, now she is bigger than my RIR

 

[java girl 2]

Are the cocks mean? I got some and the cocks are very mean so I got to eat them!!

 

[shadowpaints]

none of the roosters we have raised have been mean, they have been just as sweet and mellow as my regular silkie roosters.