I'm not real sure about the pictures from a flip phone. I bet they are thrilled. That hen just started taking the 4 everywhere on the property but she always brings then back to the horse barn to sleep. She has made one heck of a mother this time around. I'll take pictures of the sizzles once we get back home.
pure bred silkie eggs in the incubator.
They are very nice! And so pretty! You've done good!Anybody looking for a start of a pretty fair sustainable home meat/egg type birds. Been working on these a couple years now, and are coming around. They are not going to produce a carcass as fast as the commerrcial broilers but the males end up pretty massive, with out the leg issues. They will breed naturally, some of the hens will go broody, lay a nice brown egg.
I will be sorting out the this years young birds shortly, keeping some back to add to the breeding pen. But it really would be a waste of some very good genetics just to sell these off for someone to throw in with a mixed flock and not utilize their potential.
Some of the youngsters.
Breaking out the hot water bottles and thermal blankets just in case.
