large fowl silkies???

[Sonoran Silkies]

Well, take those birds and breed in the longer, fluffier feathering and you will get large fowl showbirds...eventually.

 

[bluenkimchi]

Thanks for the advice, I lost interest in silkies and got rid of them, but i'm sure they could eventually be bred towards a show able bird in future generations.

I now move onto Ayam Cemani and other single comb fibro birds.

Pair of Hmong Chicken(descendants of Chinese/Sichauan mountain silkie, which does have really Indonesian Cemani in them too)













True pure Indonesian Ayam Cemani from Michael Bean(wolfwhyte)

 

[gloryblue]

I'm interested in the fm trait and would love either some of y our Hmong chicks or eggs or please direct me as to where I could get a few...I also loved your LF Silkies which a search for them led me to you...
Beautiful birds...the Hmong...colorful as well as black skinned.
I have one South american composite chick with the fm trait.
Thanks for your sharing pictures of your new birds!

 

[bluenkimchi]

I'm interested in the fm trait and would love either some of y our Hmong chicks or eggs or please direct me as to where I could get a few...I also loved your LF Silkies which a search for them led me to you...
Beautiful birds...the Hmong...colorful as well as black skinned.
I have one South american composite chick with the fm trait.
Thanks for your sharing pictures of your new birds!

Thanks for your kind words, only problem is mine aren't laying yet. I can direct you to the guy I got mine from, since his were laying when I last visited him a few weeks ago. I don't know if he sells eggs or ship birds, but i'm sure you can talk to him about that issue and the good thing is that the hens are quite the prolific layer and are broody birds, so no need to set the eggs in the incubator. The older sister to my hen laid about 25+ eggs and then went broody, she mange to hatch only about half of that, but it's still a lot of babies.

I'll PM you his contact info and email, so you can talk to him about his birds. And ya, he isn't a breeder, just a private hobbyist that breeds for his own personal use, but just talk to him about his extra birds he has.

 

[Masterslight]

I'm a little late to this thread but I was curious bluenkimchi who was the person that sold the larger silkies in Clovis? I live in the area and would like to see if he has them still.

 

[worms7]

Large silkie are they still good broody bird?
Cheers Phil

 

[Pharmagirl]

You can find young, full-grown, near full-sized silkies in some live kill poultry markets. This is an excellent place to also save some battery hens that are only 12-18 months and have been kept in a small overcrowded cage all of their life. Battery hens lay eggs until the first hard molt then are processed out (ground up to become a by-product, killed for low-quality commercial meat, or just euthanized and replaced with 6 month-old hens ready to lay- very sad). Though they will still lay for a few more years, unfortunately, it is just more profitable for the egg factory to process them out. Please consider adopting one of these sweet girls. You will need to explain in the live poultry store manager that you want them as pets and to handle them gently with both hands. The workers are trained to snatch them from the overcrowded cages by one wing, damaging the wing. You can tell if a hen is a discarded egg-layer because the beaks have been trimmed. Broilers' beaks are not trimmed because they are only a few months old and don't peck each other due to severe overcrowding, like poor egg factory hens. The store worker will refer to these hens as soup or stew hens as opposed to broilers. These are brown or white normally and will be the cheapest hens in the store. If you live near a major city, the immigrant neighborhoods have plenty of these fresh-kill poultry markets. You will find Silkies, bred to be large, in many of these markets as they are considered a delicacy due to their black meat and bones. These rescued girls may look a bit pitiful, but they are actually kept very healthy and have been vaccinated. Bring them home and watch them quickly transform from bedraggled to playful little princesses. The best part for you will be watching them walk on grass and letting them feel sunshine for the very first time in their lives, their first dust bath, scratching for bugs... I guarantee these will be the sweetest, friendliest birds you will ever own.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You can find young, full-grown, near full-sized silkies in some live kill poultry markets. This is an excellent place to also save some battery hens that are only 12-18 months and have been kept in a small overcrowded cage all of their life. Battery hens lay eggs until the first hard molt then are processed out (ground up to become a by-product, killed for low-quality commercial meat, or just euthanized and replaced with 6 month-old hens ready to lay- very sad). Though they will still lay for a few more years, unfortunately, it is just more profitable for the egg factory to process them out. Please consider adopting one of these sweet girls. You will need to explain in the live poultry store manager that you want them as pets and to handle them gently with both hands. The workers are trained to snatch them from the overcrowded cages by one wing, damaging the wing. You can tell if a hen is a discarded egg-layer because the beaks have been trimmed. Broilers' beaks are not trimmed because they are only a few months old and don't peck each other due to severe overcrowding, like poor egg factory hens. The store worker will refer to these hens as soup or stew hens as opposed to broilers. These are brown or white normally and will be the cheapest hens in the store. If you live near a major city, the immigrant neighborhoods have plenty of these fresh-kill poultry markets. You will find Silkies, bred to be large, in many of these markets as they are considered a delicacy due to their black meat and bones. These rescued girls may look a bit pitiful, but they are actually kept very healthy and have been vaccinated. Bring them home and watch them quickly transform from bedraggled to playful little princesses. The best part for you will be watching them walk on grass and letting them feel sunshine for the very first time in their lives, their first dust bath, scratching for bugs... I guarantee these will be the sweetest, friendliest birds you will ever own.

I know this an old thread, I'd like your opinion on my big boy. Does he look like a LF Silkie?

The hen he's next to is a large fowl Buff Orpington.

 

[ColtHandorf]

No, he doesn't appear to be large fowl. In the US Silkies are neither large fowl nor bantam, but somewhere in between. Europe; however, has both varieties. Despite his (apparent) large size and upright stance he is being compared to a hatchery quality Buff Orpington who won't be as large as a bird from a breeder who breeds them for show. Secondly he has several faults which would not make him a good candidate for breeding.

 

[MysteryChicken]

No, he doesn't appear to be large fowl. In the US Silkies are neither large fowl nor bantam, but somewhere in between. Europe; however, has both varieties. Despite his (apparent) large size and upright stance he is being compared to a hatchery quality Buff Orpington who won't be as large as a bird from a breeder who breeds them for show. Secondly he has several faults which would not make him a good candidate for breeding.

His poor foot feathering is from my sister's silkie who has a bad habit of pulling them out. He has all five toes on each foot, his poof on his head is better then my first roo, who we had to slaughter, because he beat the one in photo really badly.

The roo we had to slaughter.
My sister's silkie is in the background on the ramp in the picture.