Maine Chicken stocks, Swaps and shows August- Dec 2012 -- update is on post #125, p, 13

[sheeshshe]

Oh awesome, thank you!

 

[farmerRyan]

these swaps are fun

 

[hoppy]

these swaps are fun

boy, that is a big silkie you have in your avatar. are you going to the show next sunday at the windsor fairgrounds?

 

[ashandvine]

I'd buy a silkie if it was LF... but not gold or white.

 

[hoppy]

there are only bantam silkies allowed in the standard in the US. they do have LF silkies in the UK

I'd buy a silkie if it was LF... but not gold or white.

 

[ashandvine]

I am not buying for SOP or to show. I have seen LF and if I am going to buy a butt to sit on eggs I want it to be a big butt.

 

[yo burrill]

haa haa haa that is true!!!! Only problem with silkies is they are prone to brain injury cause their skulls are open. I would go with a diff broody breed if it is in with a mixed flock.....

 

[farmerRyan]

A dog got the silky so we dont have it any more so there for we cant show it/ sell it.

 

[hoppy]

those darn dogs, I own is the worst with my own chickens but he's learning.

A dog got the silky so we dont have it any more so there for we cant show it/ sell it.

 

[mychookschick]

Ash and Vine,

There are lots of LF breeds that go broody! I have BO, GLW, and even Golden Comets (sexlinks, and as a matter of faact, she is my best hen) that have gone broody! It really helps to leave golf balls, wooden eggs, or something similar in the nest boxes, it helps them go broody if they think that the eggs they lay are being left there. I have started switching out and adding to their brood with hatchery chicks too! It works great! I have one hen with 27 chicks right now!