How beautiful! That's a beautiful little family! My silkie hen just had her one egg at the beginning of December. We had such a bitter cold I thought she wouldn't make it. I brought her inside and she hatched out on Christmas day. She was about 6 to 7 months old when she hatched her first chick. She's a very easy going mom and so gentle with me. I have another silkie and she's white. The chick is a mixed breed. The father is a rooster that I adopted last summer.
So crazy we also have a white silkie hen!! Yes our girl was very good about letting us handle the babies and eggs and never once tried to peck. She follows us around like a puppy. The white girl does too. I absolutely love the sweet nature of silkies.
That is too funny!!!! My 2 silkie girls are about a month apart in age. Both are so sweet natured and they actually know their names. Maggie is the white and Queen is the partridge. While Queen nested her egg she was inside for about 2 weeks. She claimed an empty vacuum cleaner box we had set outside to take to the dumpster. I fixed it up for her and she hatched out her chick in that box. She would come out once a day but I put training pads down and food and water nearby. Once her chick hatched she was so sweet about me seeing the baby and handling her after a few days. The chicks name is peep and she is one month old tomorrow. Sadly Queen has decided it's time for her to be on her own. Peep of course isn't ready to let go of her mom but within a few days I think she will be just fine. The father of her chick came over from a neighbors house one day and he just never left. Your silkies are gorgeous by the way! I love their puffy hair!
I trim my girls hair in the spring/summer time. They are free range so I want them to be able to see danger and just in general. I trim theirs maybe once a month or 2 months depending how much is over their eyes. In the winter it's cold and they typically stay in the barn or coop or nearby and don't seem to show the same vision problems as in the warmer months. I have no idea why that is. Maybe their fuzz grows faster during those times. I have other chickens but those 2 are my only silkies. I have an all rooster flock and another flock that consists of the orange rooster I showed you and 5 hens including the partridge mother hen. I am fairly new to this. I had chickens and other farm animals around as a child but this is all on my own right now. I'm learning things each day. I got my chickens summer of 2017.
