Silkie thread!

[Cynthia12]

Made me smile. Big.

 

[Sylvester017]

i am h
i am getting them from www.mypetchicken.com and they sex them
the minimum was 5 and i only have room for 2:-(

Oooo! I didn't know anyone sexed bantams since they are delicate and tricky to sex because of being so little.

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

Oooo! I didn't know anyone sexed bantams since they are delicate and tricky to sex because of being so little.

I think I read that they are the only ones in the country who presently do it. I think that is what I remember!

 

[Sylvester017]

@kajira @LadyVictorian Not a good pic, but did find one of one I think is a pullet... See, no comb!

So cute. Do the Silkie mixes have black skin and 5-toes each foot? Even Silkie crosses will be very sweet chickens.

 

[Sylvester017]

I think I read that they are the only ones in the country who presently do it. I think that is what I remember!

It definitely is a rare thing to sex bantams. Even private breeders don't bother sexing bantams before shipping because of how delicate and little they are.

 

[MrsKris]

So cute.  Do the Silkie mixes have black skin and 5-toes each foot?  Even Silkie crosses will be very sweet chickens.

Yes, they all have the extra toes and black skin... I call them my "special" chickens cause they run around looking/acting goofy while the white Leghorns are all graceful and precise in their movements. LoL

 

[sparton]

Yes, they all have the extra toes and black skin... I call them my "special" chickens cause they run around looking/acting goofy while the white Leghorns are all graceful and precise in their movements. LoL

Our silkie rooster and standard cochins ( he was an enterprising rooster) made sneaky mutant babies. All had the crest and 2 of the 3 had black skin. The last actually had white. All had the extra toes. Nifty looking birds but we still calked them mutants

 

[MrsKris]

Our silkie rooster and standard cochins ( he was an enterprising rooster) made sneaky mutant babies. All had the crest and 2 of the 3 had black skin. The last actually had white. All had the extra toes. Nifty looking birds but we still calked them mutants

I love them no matter what kind of mutants they are! I'm curious to see just how big they get now that I know they aren't "bantam"! I know now not to trust TSC on breeds! I have a black Australorp I got at the same time as these and it's not even half their size! It's actually the same size as my 4 week old EEs....

 

[Sylvester017]

Yes, they all have the extra toes and black skin... I call them my "special" chickens cause they run around looking/acting goofy while the white Leghorns are all graceful and precise in their movements. LoL

I had an alpha White Leghorn who was great with the first two Silkies we had. She was great for 3 years but the flock dynamics changed after we added a couple more large fowl, so we had to sadly re-home her with the other bossy large fowl. Now we only add docile large fowl breeds with the Silkies. Blue Wheaten Ameraucana and Breda are two very gentle large fowl breeds around Silkies.

WHITE LEGHORN pullet with two Partridge Silkie juveniles


GENTLE DOCILE BREEDS TOGETHER -- Blue Wheaten Ameraucana (foraging), Partridge Silkie, Blue Breda



DOCILE CUCKOO BREDA


SILKIES are comfortable around Breda chickens


CUCKOO BREDA pullet


BLUE BREDA are my favorite Breda variety

 

[Hinotori]

I had a silkie rooster who was very aggressive to non-silkies. He'd rally his hens to follow him as well, but didn't need them. We called him Genghis Pumpkin (he wad orange) because of his behavior.

All of the large fowl were terrified of him because he attacked them on sight and didn't back down. His favorite tactic was to rush up on them and rip feathers out of their butt. He beat up all of my ameraucana roosters. The large fowl were so skittish because of him, that if a silkie showed up unnoticed they would freak out and run squawking as soon as someone saw it.

After 2+ years of this, an old ameraucana hen finally got fed up with his attacks one day and pecked him in the head. It caused him to go blind.