Show me Hatchery silkies

[PrettyCoy]

Anyone have pics of silkies from My Pet Chicken? I'm getting one white one with an order in May. I don't need a super fluffy one but I'm hoping for some nice fluff. I'm tempted to stalk the TSC bantam bins too...

 

[Doodle_Doo]

i have some from Ideal..they are about 6 and a half months now..i dont know anything about silkies
so i cant say the quality to me they are just "nice"

tough to see the eyes on the girls if i dont hunt for them

COCKEREL

PULLET

 

[kasey08]

cute

I just don't think hatchery's are for me. All was shipped fine. But one has already died since then and the others are having problem pooping.

 

[Illia]

Personally, I've seen far worse than the photos shown here. Oh, some craigslist ads for Silkies. . . .

No offense to these here, not at all, what I'm saying is that when I think of a hatchery ugly Silkie, I think of something stringy looking with a huge ugly comb, red skin, a tiny crest, etc.

 

[Funky Feathers]

I think there is a hatchery called "Show Me Silkies". Matches the title of this thread.

 

[Illia]

Quote:
There's a breeder like that, yes, but not a hatchery. There's a difference.

 

[RioLindoAz]

Quote:
There's a breeder like that, yes, but not a hatchery. There's a difference.

There wasn't much point in making a comment like that when it won't benefit the OP. Especially with a writing tone that can be taken offensively.
To the OP, This may help you out:
http://www.google.com/images?q=hatc...=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1680&bih=937

 

[Morgan's_Silkie_Parade]

The hatchery silkies arent NEARLY as friendly and patient as the breeder and show quality,
ive had all types and MUCH prefered the BQ and SQ ones, very friendly loving and cute.

 

[paceysgl5]

kasey - where are you ordering from?

I'm actually really happy (so far) with my grey silkies from Ideal. See my BYC page. Going through a local "breeder" I bought 2 white, 1 blue, and 1 black, and 3 of them turned out to be cochin crosses despite 5 toes and black skin. 1 of the whites is looking like a white silkie though, but I've always suspected that one to be a roo. So...moral of the story is I should have done my homework and found a reputable breeder, but so far I'm happier with Ideal's grey silkies than the ones I spent more $$ on...

 

[M@M@2four]

My first silkies were just plain old pet quality silkies--I had owned no other chickens before that, so this was exciting...I can tell you, there's a pretty big difference when I had gotten them compared to what I had seen on the internet(pics of beautiful fluffy silkies with no eyeballs--atleast I couldn't see them).

I had NO idea that there were different qualities to silkies. Just thought a silkie was a silkie.

I know...I had a lot to learn. I just knew I had always wanted silkies and when I found an ad on craiglsit in DE for FREE SILKIES, I thought I had hit the jackpot. The man's granddaughter had posted them on CL for him. I drug my children and DH out to go get these "beautiful" silkies. The trip ended up being 2 1/2 hours one way, so a 5 hour trip all around, BUT I was getting FREE silkies. You cannot imagine my disappointment when I showed up to this elderly mans farm, looked in the large bins he had placed them in for me to pick up and saw those huge combs(some single), stringy feathers, just ugly birds(no offense). He said, "It took me about an hour to catch 'em all for ya!" So, there I stood, shocked, but knew I couldn't tell him, "no thank you." He had to be in his 70's or 80's and had just spent the past hour, containing all of these delightfully ugly silkies for me and I just didn't have the heart to walk away. My husband even whispered, "You want THESE?!" I sweetly elbowed him in his side because the man can't whsper...he too was confused. So, we quickly caged them up and off we ventured back home. I placed them in my nice, new pens I had built for them. I tried to pet them and they either screamed, fleeing in fear, tried to flog me, or pecked me. I cried. Weeks later I then went to my first show. I THEN saw the pretty silkies I saw on the internet and from then on, it became my mission to find, raise, learn all I could about them, and eventually show. My very first show, I won Best of Breed...then I went to three more shows and all three in a row, won Best of Breed.

The best part is, I have enjoyed raising them, improving them, and just loving on them. And to address their fluff on their heads...my silkies have their own separate, large pens. They get rotated when weather is nice to our chicken tractors and LOVE being chickens...in fact they're more papmered than our other chickens more often getting treats of grapes, watermelon, etc. so I don't hear them complaining about their fluff.

While I'm sure people will argue that they LOVE their, "pet quality" silkies, I am happy for them--I'm sure there are some amazing PQ silkies out there that are sweet as pie.

And I am just as happy with my silkies. So, I guess what I'm saying here is YOU need to be happy with what YOU have and if you're not, search until you do.

You can always just place the chicks you got from the hatchery on CL for sale and start again. Good luck and sorry I rambled!

PS~for anyone wondering about my "beautiful"

silkies, I posted them on CL for FREE of course and a farm down the road was happy to come get them. They loved them, which is the most important and somehow their 7 year old daughter was able to hold them and love on them.

lol