Silkie thread!

[Justjered]

I had to share my excitement with everyone. I bought a pullet and hen over the summer from a woman in Vermont and am totally in love with these two. I lost the lady's contact info which was a bummer cause I would have bought more from her as they came up for sale. Won't you know it I was surfing eBay for silkie hatching eggs and she had an auction for eggs! I bought em as I am so happy with the two I got from her. So I am now for the first time hatching eggs in the middle of winter and here in NY, winter lasts a long time. My incubator holds 27 eggs so I went ahead and bought some eggs from another nice lady in The Dakotas just so I am not wasting space, lol. There's still room so gonna try a few of my eggs from my hens. Now to figure out where to brood and grow out all these babies, if we have a good successful hatch. Gosh I'm so excited!!

no pics of your silkies?

congrats on finding her by chance!

I found a lady in Indianapolis who has both silkies and serama's and would have had an amazing hatch except I screwed up my humidity and lost everything after the first 5 hatched... Hard lesson learned, leave the incubator closed until everyone has hatched and dont risk pulling those cute little fluff balls out early.

Im anxiously waiting for her to have another set of eggs for me to hatch out (would have been a 75%+ hatch rate on shipped eggs, guess it was a lucky run being so short of travel).

 

[moomoodiddy]

Around 1940's-1950's when chicken was an expensive luxury meat, there was a contest to engineer a cheap fast-growing meat bird for the market and restaurant industries. Of course the Cornish Cross won for it's fast growth and heavy meat weight but what they didn't consider was the inhumane breeding of these ill-health chickens (bizzare physical problems and crowded living environment) and forgot to consider the tasteless meat of the young-slaughtered Cornish X's. Cornish X's have to be brined, sauced, spiced, or breaded to give the meat any kind of taste. We can't get a restaurant chicken order that isn't steeped in some kind of coating/brine to give it any flavor. Whereas, we don't get steaks in a restaurant coated with gunk unless it's ordered extra like grilled onions or mushrooms as a topping. On my folks' farm we had many a Leghorn bird roasted with just a little salt/pepper and it was delicious -- not huge birds, but flavorful because they weren't slaughtered at 8 weeks like Cornish Xs! I'm glad you can give some poor CXs a little bit of normal chicken life.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated - Mahatma Gandhi

Growing up on a family ran non commercialized beef farm I get the privilege of seeing how most of these traditional farms raise their animals, we have 50 brood cows most of them were born on the farm and each have their own name and stay here until they die. I wish that we were large enough so that we could whole sell meat, because of what I have heard of most of the slaughter houses I am appalled. This is why I am planning on raising heritage meat birds this spring.

 

[FishMtFarm]

no pics of your silkies? 

congrats on finding her by chance! 

I found a lady in Indianapolis who has both silkies and serama's and would have had an amazing hatch except I screwed up my humidity and lost everything after the first 5 hatched... Hard lesson learned, leave the incubator closed until everyone has hatched and dont risk pulling those cute little fluff balls out early. 

Im anxiously waiting for her to have another set of eggs for me to hatch out (would have been a 75%+ hatch rate on shipped eggs, guess it was a lucky run being so short of travel). 

Well here are my two lovely ladies from her:

 

[Lamaremybabies]

Well here are my two lovely ladies from her:

Oh how beautiful!

 

[FishMtFarm]

Thank you! We bring them to the school for the kids to handle. They are so sweet and well mannered.

 

[LittleWhiteDove]

I know three of my Silkies are very poor Quality. I am not sure about the others though. So I was wondering how the rest of you judge the quality of your birds

 

[Aria]

Anyone that has Young Silkies for Sale ...we lost most of our flock.
We have one blue, one white, and one splash left. Any color is
fine.

We are in Sauquoit, NY about 9 miles south of Utica, New York.
We are elderly, and cannot afford lots of $. You may have some Silkies
that you need to rehome that we could purchase. Regards, Aria

 

[PaulaMc]

I had to share my excitement with everyone. I bought a pullet and hen over the summer from a woman in Vermont and am totally in love with these two. I lost the lady's contact info which was a bummer cause I would have bought more from her as they came up for sale. Won't you know it I was surfing eBay for silkie hatching eggs and she had an auction for eggs! I bought em as I am so happy with the two I got from her. So I am now for the first time hatching eggs in the middle of winter and here in NY, winter lasts a long time. My incubator holds 27 eggs so I went ahead and bought some eggs from another nice lady in The Dakotas just so I am not wasting space, lol. There's still room so gonna try a few of my eggs from my hens. Now to figure out where to brood and grow out all these babies, if we have a good successful hatch. Gosh I'm so excited!!

Aaaawww that's so exciting. Nice one

I wish I had room and the time to hatch but have got to stick with my silkies and rescuing more ex batts.

Keep us posted on your success

 

[FishMtFarm]

I sure will! Should start incubating by the end of the week!

 

[PaulaMc]

woo woo exciting