Silkie thread!

[cindersga]

To me the first appears to be a mille fleur d'uccle

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/580317/these-are-my-4-week-old-mille-fleur-duccle-pullets-or-roos

Okay! Thank you so very much

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[dwegg]

Newbie here with 2 (to start) questions. I hope to get some silkies and showgirls in the near future, I live in town and our chicken ordenance only allows for one roo. 1. Out of the two breeds/types which would some of you recomend for a rooster. 2. What colors if any can I mix in a breeding pen. example...White roo to splash hen or black hen to blue splash roo?

Yes I totally agree with everyone's comments about getting a silkie roo and either a blue black or splash...as you can mix him with a B/B/S hens and if you have a showgirl hen then you can still get showgirl chicks as well...

And yes, I would have two Roos....always push the limits if you can get away with it...

I have four Roos and I'm not meant to have any....

 

[chickendales]

Yes I totally agree with everyone's comments about getting a silkie roo and either a blue black or splash...as you can mix him with a B/B/S hens and if you have a showgirl hen then you can still get showgirl chicks as well...
And yes, I would have two Roos....always push the limits if you can get away with it...
I have four Roos and I'm not meant to have any....

i have 10 roos lol in the city

 

[sheeshshe]

She never roosted before, she always slept in a nest box by herself. This was with the LF chickens. Now that she is with the other silkies, to the roost she goes!

 

[Momma 2 silkies]

I am so happy, I added 10 more silkies to my flock and a easter egger hen, bringing my total to 24 chicken in my flock. Chicken math strikes again. 24 is a big jump from the original 6 I wanted. The new 11 have already given me 6 eggs in the first day, 5 small silkie eggs and a blue from the EE. I will be getting another coop and run together in 2 weeks and moving some of my blues and blacks to a pen of their own. I will post a few pictures tomorrow after work. So happy with my new silkies.

 

[KMHunter]

I will have 5 new silkies and four of my original flock that I hatched this summer. I want to put them all together for winter, but not sure if I can pull that off with four boys. Two are young, and the other two are from different places. I think I am asking for trouble here. Everyone is quarantined and doing well, but I am pondering how to combine everyone for winter.
Should I put all the boys in a seperate coop and run area from the girls? Will they fight less?
I may be over thinking this. but since I only have delt with LF, that are hard to integrate, and can be really mean, I worry.
I have one large pen that I am planning on sectioning off for breeding of different colors in the spring with seperate small coops in each one. I could do something like that now.

 

[ChicksNherps]

I know it isn't a silkie, but I just HAVE to post pictures of the new boyfriend I got my two girls

As long as he isn't obnoxious, then he's dinner lol!

This is Casanova AKA "Cas"

 

[dwegg]

Oh he is just beautiful...I just love Roos...they are always so majestic...hope his ladies love him...

 

[Cynthia12]

Did I say that my Cotton is squatting now?

I think I did. Hoping she starts laying soon. My blue splash is laying like crazy now.

 

[ChicksNherps]

Oh he is just beautiful...I just love Roos...they are always so majestic...hope his ladies love him...

Yeah I hope so too! He isn't show quality or anything but I think he's gorgeous

I felt bad because he was smooshed into a cat carrier with another roo. I let him walk around my living room for a minute and he decided he was a cat and hopped up on the cat tree with my big tuxedo boy. My cat is 14 lbs and the rooster is BIGGER than him!