Show me your silkie coops!

[seminolewind]

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The ramp 3 feet long and 18 inches high on one end. The do fine. If you need, which I didn't you can put some little pieces of wood on it to make it anti slip.

 

[seminolewind]

I have to say, they are all beautiful. I would want any one of them!

 

[Rosaleen]

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My silkies grew up with my other standard chicks and the always had their favorite roosts and they always used the ramp everyday. I have pics of roosts and ramp on my page.

 

[IdealisticRoo]

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My silkies grew up with my other standard chicks and the always had their favorite roosts and they always used the ramp everyday. I have pics of roosts and ramp on my page.

My Silkie hen grew up with mostly non-Silkie chicks so she always tries to roost. Actually, bedtime for the chickens has become a favorite time for my non-chicken friends to come visit, because my Silkie hen will get a running start, flap her wings, make it up into the air and close to the roost and usually always undershoot, but sometimes overshoot - KERSPLAT into the wall behind the roost.

Now before my fellow Silkie owners criticize me for being a mean, horrible person for laughing at the misadventures of my Silkie hens roosting attempts, let me tell you she has lower roosting options. She has plenty of clean shavings on the ground and she has plenty of spacious nest boxes to go broody in (and I always ENCOURAGE broodiness here [I run a home for wayward mother hens lol]).

I ordered 5 more Silkie chicks today, hope they all arrive alive in the cold.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Congratulations on the 5 new babies..

 

[gmendoza]

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Some of those silkies look like turkeys Imo. lol!!!

 

[bumblebee 99]

I love the woodstove in that one pic!! And those turkeys are soo pretty, I just had to sell mine

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[TrystInn]

We breed Frizzle Silkies, so we have a combination of regular feathered Silkies, smooth-feathered and frizzle feathered. The latter of the two do roost and the smooth-feathered can fly as well as the bantam cochins.

 

[wessfarm]

jest got some silkies last weekend have learned alot from all the post .. have to get to work on new coop now . this is the coop for other birds

 

[Kara515]

I just looked through all the pictures on this thread and I love all the wonderful coops! I would love to have something like....any of them! My Silkies do roost off the ground. I made a ladder for them out of 1x2's with poultry netting behind it and a few branches between each rung. When they were a few weeks old, each evening I would take every one of the babies and "walk" them up the ladder. It only took a few nights before they figured out how to do it on their own. It took them up about 3 feet off the ground and since we have some cold nights in the winter, they had a shelter to go into with lots of bedding. As they got older, they went on to a roost instead. Now they will jump up onto a branch and walk the branch up to where they want to roost. It is funny that the black hens will roost on one branch on one side of their area, and the white hens will roost on the other side on different branches! Of course, that may be where their "men" want them!
Now, if I could just get my hubby to help me build a cute coop like any of the ones on this thread!!!!!