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.