I have the opportunity to get 2 SQ & 2 BQ porcelains. (1 SQ pullet and 2 yo SQ cock bird. 1 BQ 2 yo hen and 1 BQ cockerel). I really am interested in the 2 SQ's. I'll post photos. My other option is to get a few 1 month old chicks from an awesome well known breeder of assorted colors. My goal is to show. Let me know your opinions.
Here is the BQ & SQ females. And the SQ cock. Photos are not mine. Given to me from the breeder.
Awwww.I'm so excited! I have FINALLY added a Silkie to my family. I ordered through mypetchicken because I'm very limited to the number of birds I can have and wanted to attempt to get a sexed bird. Hopefully they didn't let me down and I she ends up staying a she. I ordered a white Silkie in my batch of 4 chicks. She'll be raised with 3 standard sized birds and when they are old enough will be combined with 4 more standard birds. I was a bit worried to add a single bantam to the flock but since my RIR is very small and silkies aren't the smallest bantams and after talking with some "experts" I decided to go ahead and do it. The merge will be a long process because I want to do it as calmly as possible and I am home most of the day so when the time comes I'll be able to monitor the merger VERY closely. She seems to be bonding with the Orpington I got who is a MONSTER. So hopefully the Orp will be the silkie's protector. I also got a Polish so she won't be the only "strange" looking bird being added to the group. Here's Bunny!!!!!
Bunny at a few days old
with her new sisters
around 2 weeks with her guardian, River, a blue Orpington
My flock of silkies hated the layer pellets and they had to smash each pellet into the ground to crush up before they are it:/ made me feel bad so now all I feed them is the Crumble and I mix some scratch in with it
they love it. I would say just try different things and whatever your silkies prefer just go with that:}
On the advice of my vet re Silkies I've been doing the fermented feed for 6 months because we had layer pellets that the Silkies loved but couldn't break down so they kept looking for smaller broken pieces. We started moistening the pellets (not soaking but just moistening) overnight in the fridge with added brewers yeast, cooked brown rice, a little dash of turmeric, chia seeds, quinoa seeds, crushed pumpkin seeds (no shell), and rolled oats and all the chickens go for the moistened feed. However we noticed them eating less of the feed. Guess that's where the absorbtion of nutrients comes into place to require eating less of it. So the wild birds don't eat it all up we remove the bowl after the morning feeding.
