Silkie thread!

[Flockincrazy]

My silkie/Sebright mixes are getting big

 

[Flockincrazy]

My silkie rescues

 

[Hinotori]

I have resisted the silkie urge so far but seeing your beauties has broken me down. irresistible. beauties.

They are sweet things. I use mine for selective weeding as they are less destructive than the large fowl.

 

[BleuSaphir]

My silkie/Sebright mixes are getting big

I bet they will turn out interesting!

 

[Hinotori]

3/4 silkie 12 weeks old. I'll be breeding him to a couple silkie hens when he grows up.

Daddy silkie

 

[CoastalSilkies]

My ladies

 

[ronkonkoma]

These girls needed a bath

A pic before they head back out.

Grumpy Bird & Smudge

 

[peeper89]

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These girls needed a bath
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A pic before they head back out.

Grumpy Bird & Smudge

they fluffy! how they see to move and eat?!!

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Here's my girls and boys. Exclude the photobombs from the standards. They love attention.

 

[Sylvester017]

I have resisted the silkie urge so far but seeing your beauties has broken me down. irresistible. beauties.

It's not that Silkies are just beautiful fluffy Teddy Bears of the chicken world -- it's that they have sweet docile temperaments too. I suggest you never have just ONE Silkie in a flock since bigger chicken breeds are tempted to bully Silkies. Have at least 2 or more Silkies in a mixed flock to toodle around together away from the bigger chicken breeds. Our two Silkies were not exactly best buddies but they toodled around together away from the bigger breeds in the flock: