Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[PioneerChicks]

Here is a picture of my silkes, Peter is the blue silkie and Piper is the buff. Sorry, Peter is in the shade and Piper is in the sun, it is a little odd but they don't like picture time!:

This year I ordered 5 blue silkies, 5 buffs, and 5 spangled old English game bantams from Cackle Hatchery, and they sent an extra of each. I ended up with 4 buff girls and two roosters, and 1 blue girl and 6 roos!!! It is really disappointing cause I was really depending on 2-4 blue girls for the silkie chick selling business i want to start!
If anybody in Idaho wants buff or blue silkie roosters (for free) message me, but keep in mind that I am not shipping them, you will have to come to me.

By the way, HuffleClaw, your silkies are ADORABLE

 

[HuffleClaw]

Here is a picture of my silkes, Peter is the blue silkie and Piper is the buff. Sorry, Peter is in the shade and Piper is in the sun, it is a little odd but they don't like picture time!:
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This year I ordered 5 blue silkies, 5 buffs, and 5 spangled old English game bantams from Cackle Hatchery, and they sent an extra of each. I ended up with 4 buff girls and two roosters, and 1 blue girl and 6 roos!!! It is really disappointing cause I was really depending on 2-4 blue girls for the silkie chick selling business i want to start!
If anybody in Idaho wants buff or blue silkie roosters (for free) message me, but keep in mind that I am not shipping them, you will have to come to me.

By the way, HuffleClaw, your silkies are ADORABLE

They are beautiful!

 

[HuffleClaw]

You’re a cruel man

What ? Who? Me ?

So what if people use silkies for meat? I did sense the joke behind it though. Really funny.

 

[casportpony]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silky_bantam.jpg#filehistory
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjamint444
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkie

 

[HuffleClaw]

@chickens really want to show off your silkies?

 

[PioneerChicks]

Thank you, HuffleClaw!
Quick question, has anyone on here had problems with silkies hurting their leg(s) from a fall? Peter hurt his leg (I don't think it was broken) and I am thinking it is because he fell or something. It is healed now, and he barely limps, but I am wondering if anybody else has had similar problems.

 

[casportpony]

I like the naked neck Silkies too!

 

[HuffleClaw]

I like the naked neck Silkies too!
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Showgirls?? Yes!!!

 

[AllenK RGV]

I don't find them to be heat tolerant, every day they hide from the sun, while the OEGB and Sumatra just free range. I open the run door and they go squat under a bush from 10:30AM until about 4:45PM.

I have been shaving my wife's birds heads to hopefully help them survive the overwintering raptors. Now I will admit they do have quite a lot pf personality, however, 3 months into showing them where the coop is and last night 2/3rds were inside at nightfall for the first time.....I do support dumb as rocks. I can be on the other side of the 1x4 fencing with treats in my hands with the run door open and have half of the flock trying to run through the fence wire which just doesn't work.

I'm planning on expanding my Sumatras and wash my hands of those things, but the wife loves her little guys she still has 3 or 4 that she hasn't found names for.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I do love silkies but we haven’t had the best of luck with them... Marilyn the showgirl (see chick and adult pics below!) was our very favorite bird. She was tough, but struggled in winter, then eventually succumbed to Marek’s disease. Fozzy was a white silkie roo. Out of six other Roos that we kept together, Fozzy was the only one that I couldn’t convince to stop attacking me and everyone else. While he wasn’t dangerous, the other LF Roos would attack when he attacked... Because of the Marek’s, we couldn’t rehome him and we eventually did get to see how they work in cooking... Not a happy story, I know, but he was too mean for a pet. Anyway, we still have Susan the silkie. She is terribly broody and takes awful care of herself when broody. We did finally let her sit on eggs and she is a fantastic mom!