They will come fairly close but don't really do the whole touching thing, but then again none of my birds do. I have had a few individual chickens that would come up for a very light pet on the chin or neck but in general birds are just not like cats or dogs. I personally love the silkies but they can be quite expensive and are harder to hatch from what I hear. Wish my eggs were fertile so I could give personal experience on the hatching part but I've got an unmotivated drake!
Some of the older silkie bloodlines are a bit larger like between a mallard and a call but the newer blood coming out of holderreads are just as small as the calls. I've got 1 hen that is closer to the original size but the rest are the smaller call size.
Yay!
Sorry to hear that, that sucks! But I had read one of the duck threads and it was saying the drake was carried around was acting bad, so I guess ducks are like my chickens also. Ducks are entertaining to watch. I am bidding on ebay for some calls, wish me luck! I hope your drake will get busy with his girls!!I just tossed out another 11 silkie duck eggsSo disappointed with this drake.
Very cool; can't wait too see pics of your babys...On your drake not interested,are you sure your feeding him manly foods.....?....Just got the email today that my ducklings are shipping out this afternoon from Holderreads. I paid the extra for express shipping so I'm expecting them by Thursday. I ordered these guys after the bobcat attacks and no luck finding adult drake and now that the drake I did find seems to be not interested in breeding I'm really glad I did order these. Anyway I'm so excited to add them to the flock.
Not sure about manly food but he is not a happy camper now. I threw in a little snowy drake to try to get some competition going on for the girls.Very cool; can't wait too see pics of your babys...On your drake not interested,are you sure your feeding him manly foods.....?....
