The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

Random question for Silkie Owners:

Are you able to house your regular LF with the silkies or do you have to house them separately to keep them from being mauled?


Mine are all housed together. Oddly I have never seen the LF roo mate the silkie girls. Him and the silkie roo were having some issues but I think they worked it out. It was sort of the silkies fault lol. He was older and always knocking the LF (Chantecler) roo off the girls, keeping him from food, randomly attacking him etc. until one day the LF realized that he was twice the size of the silkie. I can home to find a big white roo with blood all over his hackle feathers and no silkie roo to be seen. Took me a while to find him hiding under a wheel barrow. Nearly every day since he escapes the run and comes running up to the deck so I will carry him back inside and past the LF onto the roost for the night.

I am thinking about using the idea (sorry can't remember who's) of providing an area that the smaller birds can fit into to escape if necessary with another feed and water station.

We will be adding blue silkies, (silkies are my husbands thing) and silver laced polish soon so it would probably be nice for them too.
 
Mine are all housed together. Oddly I have never seen the LF roo mate the silkie girls. Him and the silkie roo were having some issues but I think they worked it out. It was sort of the silkies fault lol. He was older and always knocking the LF (Chantecler) roo off the girls, keeping him from food, randomly attacking him etc. until one day the LF realized that he was twice the size of the silkie. I can home to find a big white roo with blood all over his hackle feathers and no silkie roo to be seen. Took me a while to find him hiding under a wheel barrow. Nearly every day since he escapes the run and comes running up to the deck so I will carry him back inside and past the LF onto the roost for the night.

I am thinking about using the idea (sorry can't remember who's) of providing an area that the smaller birds can fit into to escape if necessary with another feed and water station.

We will be adding blue silkies, (silkies are my husbands thing) and silver laced polish soon so it would probably be nice for them too.
This sounds EXACTLY like my experience with Jagger & Steve when I first started. Jagger was a BR, Steve a Silkie.. Steve was boss until one day his butt was handed to him. He'd stay outside all day even in the rain because he was banished. Jagger never mated silkies, but his sons did.. I have a BR x Silkie to prove it. She is beautiful, and is a force to be reckoned with. :p
 
Oddly we have never had a roo who was raised by us from a chick be at all human aggressive. Maybe because we both tell them off, chase them away or pick them up if we think they are being too rough with a girl. Would being cornered by a 5'2" woman sternly telling you that "you'r behaviour is unacceptable and you must treat women with more respect unless you want to be stew" make you more submissive? Lol
 
This sounds EXACTLY like my experience with Jagger & Steve when I first started. Jagger was a BR, Steve a Silkie.. Steve was boss until one day his butt was handed to him. He'd stay outside all day even in the rain because he was banished. Jagger never mated silkies, but his sons did.. I have a BR x Silkie to prove it. She is beautiful, and is a force to be reckoned with. :p


Oooooooo barred with a crest? Pic?
 
Would being cornered by a 5'2" woman sternly telling you that "you'r behaviour is unacceptable and you must treat women with more respect unless you want to be stew" make you more submissive? Lol
Hmm I tried that tactic with my hens when they stopped laying for winter. They didn't believe me either.

Maybe next time I will take the stew pot out with me.........

(I am 5'2" also)
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Hmm I tried that tactic with my hens when they stopped laying for winter. They didn't believe me either.

Maybe next time I will take the stew pot out with me.........

(I am 5'2" also)
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I am 5' 1 1/2" on a tall day. Us vertically challenged girls need to even claim even the fractions of an inch! Perhaps, if you take the stew pot out, with the seasoning and a bit of hot water, and a tape measure, and measure the girls to see who will best fit in the pot.
 
I am 5' 1 1/2" on a tall day.  Us vertically challenged girls need to even claim even the fractions of an inch!  Perhaps, if you take the stew pot out, with the seasoning and a bit of hot water, and a tape measure, and measure the girls to see who will best fit in the pot.


Yes I lied 5' 1 3/4" in reality. Small means feisty anyways. We have to make up in spirit and wit what we lack in stature....like a bantam!
 

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