Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[HerbGir1972]

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I hope you love your Partridge boy when he's all grown up.  We kept our sweet boy as long as we could before his crowing got annoying -- we weren't zoned for roos.  But we kept his Partridge sister and then got a Black pullet to have 2 Silkies toodling around the yard.  The Partridge and Black are my favorite colors for backyard free-ranging.  We had a White Leg that would get dingy yellow and stained so we no longer get White chickens for the yard.

We're downsizing 3 more roosters, to even things out. Going to get a couple blue chicks and hope for hens

 

[Sylvester017]

We're downsizing 3 more roosters, to even things out. Going to get a couple blue chicks and hope for hens

If you are planning on blue chicks for Silkies it will take several weeks before you'll know what sex they are. I hope you get hens! Our first two chickens were brother and sister Partridge Silkies (the boy was supposed to be a "pullet" -- surprise, surprise! and he had to be rehomed) Silkie hens are so annoyingly broody that we considered giving the remaining Partridge away but she was so incredibly sweet that we centered all our flock additions around her. She is 4 y/o now and dainty and sweet as ever! If a breed or hen didn't play nice with her it was rehomed. We have discovered that not all chickens are the same -- not all bantams are the same either. Some breeds are combative and some are non-combative gentles. Now we mix nothing with the Silkies but gentle breeds weighing 5-lbs or under. We sacrificed dual purpose/egg layers in order to have breeds that got along with the Silkies. So far we won't consider mixing anything in with Silkies except for Ameraucana, Araucana, Breda, Cochin, Easter Egger, Faverolles, Houdan, Polish, or Sultan because these are basically non-combative/gentle breeds usually in the 5-lb-and-under weight range. The Faverolles and Cochin are a heavier breed but are so incredibly docile that they usually don't fight back and get heavily picked on by other LF. There are other gentle giants like Brahma, Jersey Giant, Sussex, etc but because these weigh in the 7 to 9 lb range we hesitate to add them to our under-5-lb group of gentles. We wanted to experiment with a Dominique pullet in our gentle flock but we lost her to a sudden seizure so we don't know how she would've blended with the gentles. Dom pullets are friendly and usually weigh 41/2 lbs but we never got to find out how she would've turned out.

 

[buzz1994]

can anyone help sex my partridge silkie my first silkie was told it was a 5 month old bantam.

 

[Hinotori]

can anyone help sex my partridge silkie my first silkie was told it was a 5 month old bantam.

It's a cockerel.

 

[Corydg]

My first and only 4 day old partridge born on the super bowl....though im far from a football fan (but live in washington) you all seem to have great names. Suggestio

n?. Im beginning to think this is my favorite after seeing all your amazing birds. I like the cuckoo as well. Im having a blast with all my new babies!

 

[Going Quackers]

My first and only 4 day old partridge born on the super bowl....though im far from a football fan (but live in washington) you all seem to have great names. Suggestion?. Im beginning to think this is my favorite after seeing all your amazing birds. I like the cuckoo as well. Im having a blast with all my new babies!

I am awful naming but gosh they are sooo cute! i love the fluffballs.

 

[paris_r]

my new peep-hatched out today under a 9 month old first time broody

 

[chickee]

Everyone's chicks are SO cute. Here is one of mine. Pretty sure it is a pullet and she is 4 weeks old.

At 3 days old~


At 4 weeks old~

 

[Corydg]

What a pretty baby. What would a black and partridge silkie be able to throw?

 

[HerbGir1972]

If you are planning on blue chicks for Silkies it will take several weeks before you'll know what sex they are.  I hope you get hens!  Our first two chickens were brother and sister Partridge Silkies (the boy was supposed to be a "pullet" -- surprise, surprise! and he had to be rehomed)  Silkie hens are so annoyingly broody that we considered giving the remaining Partridge away but she was so incredibly sweet that we centered all our flock additions around her.  She is 4 y/o now and dainty and sweet as ever!  If a breed or hen didn't play nice with her it was rehomed.  We have discovered that not all chickens are the same -- not all bantams are the same either.  Some breeds are combative and some are non-combative gentles.  Now we mix nothing with the Silkies but gentle breeds weighing 5-lbs or under.  We sacrificed dual purpose/egg layers in order to have breeds that got along with the Silkies.  So far we won't consider mixing anything in with Silkies except for Ameraucana, Araucana, Breda, Cochin, Easter Egger, Faverolles, Houdan, Polish, or Sultan because these are basically non-combative/gentle breeds usually in the 5-lb-and-under weight range.  The Faverolles and Cochin are a heavier breed but are so incredibly docile that they usually don't fight back and get heavily picked on by other LF. There are other gentle giants like Brahma, Jersey Giant, Sussex, etc but because these weigh in the 7 to 9 lb range we hesitate to add them to our under-5-lb group of gentles.  We wanted to experiment with a Dominique pullet in our gentle flock but we lost her to a sudden seizure so we don't know how she would've blended with the gentles.  Dom pullets are friendly and usually weigh 4[SUP]1/2[/SUP] lbs but we never got to find out how she would've turned out.

Well we're used to waiting we raise ee's. If we get too many just sell them as unsexed. It's getting on to Chickiy time so we expect with our limited hatches we'll keep sold out of chicks