Silkie thread!

[Mollie4dogs]

Here is my trio...I think two of them are bearded and one non-bearded. What are your thoughts?


Are these two considered bearded?



(I think this one's a Roo)

Edited to add: They are 9 weeks old.

Looks like a goatee ;-)

 

[Mollie4dogs]

I have little problem with my roo's, a squabble here and there but nothing major, and I have 6, 3 silkies, bantam barred rock, porcelain D'uccle, and a rusian orloff (HUGE!)

On another note, I highly recommend getting your silkies from a breeder =) They will be better quality, and it cost the same to raise breeder quality birds as it does hatchery quality =) Depending where you are, I have some chicks for sale now and another hatch due christmas. I have silkies/sizzles/showgirls as well as silkie mixes. I'me in Weare, NH

I'm in California. Do you ship LOL?

 

[K Epp]

Im sure you are right about 95% of the roos sold however i have had ppl come looking for a certain breed too as theirs was killed and they wanted hatchin eggs
Last spring my LB roo died.Had ppl wanting hatching eggs no roo!


Had to buy eggs and start from scratch as

nobody had one even half grown!So some ppl do need roos but not many

I have given several LF roos away to people who are just replacing their flock guardian. I give those free of charge just to get them in a good home. I do advertise them at $10 to sell to keep from putting them in a pot... I bought the 4 above reffered to Silkie roos because I wound up buying all pullets as day old chicks. ***How often does that happen.*** I d have some EE that I have told the DH he could cook. I'm not doing it. Or he needs to get them to the point they look like thy came home from the grocery store.

 

[jajeanpierre]

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I am not in the Far East, most people around here find it distasteful to eat black skin gray meat.

I think you underestimate the market for black chicken. Just because you won't eat it doesn't mean no one else will. I, from a European non-farm background, slaughtered and ate my SIlkies and they were very, very good.

 

[Mollie4dogs]

It's interesting how the colour of food has a great impact on how one perceives whether it's tasty or not... I recall a story of Orson Wells serving up a dinner composed of all blue-coloured food. It put people off, even though it was only the colour that was different.

I've never had Silkie before, but would be willing to try it. Hubby took ten years to convince me that raw oysters didn't taste like it smelled, LOL.

I do love my chickens though, and see them as pets. I don't know if I could eat my own birds. But I don't have any issue about having my friend taking them to slaughter. In fact, we're considering raising some meat birds in future. For now though, I'm so happy to have layers that are doing well.

 

[Suzierd]

Can anyone guess on the sex of this little partridge by the color coming in? Not the best pictures the little bugger wouldn't hold still.

 

[tinychicadees]

I got my first silkie chicks about a month ago, they are 11 weeks. I love the silkies!

 

[Staciaw755]

Does anyone have any Silkie chicks for sale?

 

[jajeanpierre]

It's interesting how the colour of food has a great impact on how one perceives whether it's tasty or not... I recall a story of Orson Wells serving up a dinner composed of all blue-coloured food. It put people off, even though it was only the colour that was different.

I've never had Silkie before, but would be willing to try it. Hubby took ten years to convince me that raw oysters didn't taste like it smelled, LOL.

I do love my chickens though, and see them as pets. I don't know if I could eat my own birds. But I don't have any issue about having my friend taking them to slaughter. In fact, we're considering raising some meat birds in future. For now though, I'm so happy to have layers that are doing well.

I love my chickens, too, and consider many of them pets, especially the Silkies. There is just no way that I can have a pen full of nasty roosters that just cost me money and make a lot of noise. I live in the country, but having a pen of crowing cockerels isn't a lot of fun for me or my neighbors. It did take me a bit to force myself to eat some (Silkie) chicken that I had lovingly raised. The meat isn't that odd looking cooked. Certainly, the bones are black and there is black streaks running through the meat especially where it lies against the bones. I skinned and deboned them and made a really rich curry out of them and a rich soup from the bones.

After researching slaughter, I really feel ethically obligated to raise my own chickens and slaughter them myself. I still haven't grown enough spine to buy chickens for the sole purpose of processing them, instead processing excess cockerels. It is isn't fun and it does cause me grief and I am an expert at putting it off, but if I truly love animals and continue to eat meat, I should slaughter my own. They have a great life, eat good food, run around in the sunshine happily foraging for bugs and then they have one bad day. Their few minutes (seconds?) of bad is nothing compared to the living Hell commercial chickens live through for every day of their short, brutal lives.

 

[PaintedFeathers]

I'm in California. Do you ship LOL?

I could TRY.. but i've never shipped live birds. I did just get some live pigeons shipped to me. I could always try and send some day olds when you want some? But shipping is about $30.Though it would be the same if you ordered them online anyway lol. Let me know, you can PM me if you are interested!