Sorry I've been offline, life interrupted chicken chat. Things get crazy here. Took in a rescue mule and a rescue horse, then had my knee replaced and then there's the chickens and the goats and and the pyrenees and now an Aussie and a Beagle mix puppy, both dumped. The Aussie was fairly feral but is now the joy of my day, the wee blue tick beagle mix has a lot of growing and recovering to do, she was 3lbs when I found her and over four lbs now, she should be about 7 lbs. She's adorable, I hate people who throw away dogs.
To the TN peoples I have some silkies and some sizzles available to good homes. Several silkie roos or cockerals, a few silkie girls, they're blue or black from BBS lines. Two of the better silkie cockerals are showing some gold or silver smut in their hackles, but they are beautiful birds. Worth messing with unless you have TOOOOO many like I do.
I'm keeping one splash silkie roo, one rough feathered Sizzle roo, a silkie hen or two and two sizzle hens and that's it. The big chickens need my focus for awhile. I'm finally getting great sizzle quality and I don't have time for it.
I have frazzled splash sizzle babies and straight feathered sizzle chicks as well but they're still quite young. Three straight feathered cockerals - splash. One rough feathered Sizzle Roo, who was 5th generation, has his faults but produced better than he was. Redder comb than you'd like and wing set is off, good splash coloring, nice feather when it's in, decent crest, produced better crests. All the other sizzles are sixth generation. Some bred to silkies, some bred to sizzles. Nice looking generation. All BBS. One cockeral split to brown red (aka birchen), would need more work to produce brown red Sizzles
but could be worth playing with. I was going to but.... life...
Pick up near Knoxville TN. Free to BYCers.
Horses and mules take a lot of time and training. Dexter the mule is a long yearling and Tenaya, the Racking Horse, was badly handled and badly started and under-weight, so there's a lot of work there in my future - of course I'm delighted but it is work.
Add my rescue dogs and busy busy. PM if you have interest in baby beagle or the birds LOL.