Sharing Some Pictures For Fun - Guineas, Silkies, & Their Home

[OwlLover]

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What is Maple? Looks like my BB Red Hens??

She's a mutt of some sort, but I think she's an old english game/hamburg/ unknown mix. What's a BB hen btw?

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

Your birds are beautiful!
I'm so in love with your silkies

 

[dwegg]

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Oh your silkies are beautiful...I love pics of everyone's chickens...they're the best threads...I just set 23 silkie eggs.. I have never had silkies before....

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

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Oh your silkies are beautiful...I love pics of everyone's chickens...they're the best threads...I just set 23 silkie eggs.. I have never had silkies before....

You will love having silkies...I have 11 of them... and 15 on the way.

 

[Parson's Wife]

awwww! I just love your silkies! Your entire flock looks healthy, but those silkies...just something about them!

 

[Shayna]

THANK YOU to everyone for such nice comments on my flock. These are my first guineas and chickens. We decided on the guineas due to a run in with Lyme Disease from a deer tick this summer, and then I wanted some silkies to cuddle and possibly use as broodies for the guinea eggs. This has been so much fun for our family. I was lucky enough to find a very nice group of paint silkies. I find these fluffy chickens completely irresistable!

@PolishSilkies, thanks for sharing a picture of Maple! She's adorable, I love that gold coloring on her head too!

@Dwegg, it's true, you will LOVE having silkies. I bought mine after having 0 success hatching 24 eggs, but I do have 5 more eggs in the incubator I'm hoping I can get a couple nice silkie hens from. Mine are due 10/3, what about yours?

@I-Have-Happy-Hens, I'm happy to hear you like our run! We spent so much of the summer working on it and are just getting to finishing it up adding metal roofing panels. We designed it to keep out snow and predators. We can get quite a bit of both. We just attached the run to an old small shed, but we wanted to make the run large and usable for all but the most extreme weather conditions. Here are a few pictures I have of it:

(The ramp has been changed since the below pictures were taken....)

 

[dwegg]

Shayna...mine are due 10/6.. we're almost hatching buddies

and that is a big coop/run

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Your Guinea keets and Paint Silkies are so stink'in cute!! I currently don't have any Silkies, but I do have 9 Guineas...plus around 3 dozen Guin-eggs in the 'bator. (

) You have a very good assortment of colors in your Guinea flock, to say the least!

Your coop is wonderful as well; they have so much space!

~Aspen

 

[wishingbee]

Thanks for posting photos of your run! I've been planning out how to build a predator proof 10x10 area for 3 hens, and this is very close in construction as what I had in mind (although much bigger!). It's extremely helpful to see something like this. You've got a lovely flock there!

 

[SilkieChickenLover336]

They live together in the same cage?