Silkie thread!

[sasafras4u2]

Maybe a hen

Me thinks me has a cockerel! With this one

 

[chickachickayea]

My little 21 week old Silkie, Tiny and her fluffy marshmallow butt!

I just went out to check on the girls, and Tiny came up to the door so I opened it and she started stomping her feet and squatting down so I gave her a nice back rub and when I stopped she fluffed herself and walked off. Looks like I'm gonna get eggs soon!
:yiipchick

 

[chickluvinfreak]

My little 21 week old Silkie, Tiny and her fluffy marshmallow butt!

I just went out to check on the girls, and Tiny came up to the door so I opened it and she started stomping her feet and squatting down so I gave her a nice back rub and when I stopped she fluffed herself and walked off. Looks like I'm gonna get eggs soon!
:yiipchick

Yeah eggs! Tiny is adorable

 

[chickluvinfreak]

Maybe a hen

Me thinks me has a cockerel! With this one

Awww, so cute I love sizzles and frizzles!

 

[Sylvester017]

Okay, so first, hello! And second I need help. So this spring I'm getting chicks for the first time and I had my heart set on EE's, until someone on my thread posted a picture of her silkies and I was like

I NEED THEM!!! so this is why I am on here, to ask for any information on silkies I can get my hands on! I live around wayland, dorr area in Michigan so if anyone has silkies they can sell or if they know where I can get some that would be GREAT! Thanks!

I really would like to have either a paint silkie or an orange bantam silkie

If you get Silkies you must have more than one in the flock if the flock is made mostly of large fowl breeds. I recommend at LEAST 2 to 3 or more Silkies to hang out together away from the large fowl. Don't know what your flock number limit is but one Silkie alone in a flock of chicken breeds 4 to 6 lbs heavier than the Silkie is not a good idea in a small flock - my personal experience from having a very small backyard flock. Don't subject one lone bantam Silkie to the bullying of several large fowl breeds. When large fowl are pullets they usually don't pick on smaller docile breeds - I found that when the large fowl reach maturity at 18 months to 2 yrs old they most often will start exhibiting hurtful bullying on smaller or docile breeds. I'm not talking about normal pecking order taps but actual hurtful bullying. I had to re-home my heavier dual-purpose and production breeds because they eventually bullied the littles. We decided to keep only light-weight and docile breeds around the Silkies and found the purebred Blue Wheaten Ameraucana and Bredas very compatible and docile around the Silkies.

(left to right) Blue Wheaten Ameraucana, Blue Breda, Black Silkie, Partridge Silkie ~ the Ameraucana is largest at 5.5-lb but a very docile sweet hen

 

[lovechicks1293]

If you get Silkies you must have more than one in the flock if the flock is made mostly of large fowl breeds. I recommend at LEAST 2 to 3 or more Silkies to hang out together away from the large fowl. Don't know what your flock number limit is but one Silkie alone in a flock of chicken breeds 4 to 6 lbs heavier than the Silkie is not a good idea in a small flock - my personal experience from having a very small backyard flock. Don't subject one lone bantam Silkie to the bullying of several large fowl breeds. When large fowl are pullets they usually don't pick on smaller docile breeds - I found that when the large fowl reach maturity at 18 months to 2 yrs old they most often will start exhibiting hurtful bullying on smaller or docile breeds. I'm not talking about normal pecking order taps but actual hurtful bullying. I had to re-home my heavier dual-purpose and production breeds because they eventually bullied the littles. We decided to keep only light-weight and docile breeds around the Silkies and found the purebred Blue Wheaten Ameraucana and Bredas very compatible and docile around the Silkies.

(left to right) Blue Wheaten Ameraucana, Blue Breda, Black Silkie, Partridge Silkie ~ the Ameraucana is largest at 5.5-lb but a very docile sweet hen

thanks i will keep this in mind

 

[sasafras4u2]

This is skyler. She was attacked by the dog at 5 weeks she is pretty shy now but I think she is a she.

 

[sasafras4u2]

This one is Sebastiana.

This is the one i think is male his name Piccadilly! Lol
And the 3 of them typically hang out together

 

[Sylvester017]

This is skyler. She was attacked by the dog at 5 weeks she is pretty shy now but I think she is a she.

Ouch! How did a dog manage to get to her? My Partridge was traumatized as a chick growing up in a pen of large fowl chicks and is still very timid at 5 yrs old. She has very little confidence to stick up for herself.

This one is Sebastiana.
This is the one i think is male his name Piccadilly! Lol
And the 3 of them typically hang out together

Silkies IMO require other Silkie companions if mixed with large fowl. I never keep one lone Silkie in a mixed flock. Your fluffies are so sweet!

Silkies do typically stick together ~ even to the point of sharing a nestbox to go to sleep!

 

[sasafras4u2]

Some how she got left outside when everyone else was brought in and although she was in the large coop she got behind a board next to the fence I think to hide from the big hens when they came out and the dog pulled all her feathers on her leg through the fence. 1/2 hardwire cloth. She was really squeezed in there. Poor girl but she is 12 weeks old now but isn't near as active as the other 2.