Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

I've selected for friendliness. Not that they were aggressive to begin with. Now I get super friendly ones sometimes.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Mine are the four of them, the little dark girl Dirt is the friendliest

 

[Hinotori]

That dark one had a full brother in the same muddy coloring who was super friendly. I gave him away to someone looking for a nice rooster for their flock. He's been doing well there.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Really I am actually glad I do not have a rooster for them do not think the 4 some would be as strong as they are all so connected

 

[Hinotori]

Silkies get rather clanish sometimes. The right rooster and he has a close knit army to conquer the entire chicken yard.

That actually isn't me being poetic. My first partridge rooster was named Pumpkin because he was orange. He soon had Genghis added to the front of that. He'd lead his hens on an attack of all the large fowl birds. He personally kicked the stuffing out of the ameraucana roosters. Encouraged, his hens would gang up on the brahmas even. It got to the point that all the large fowl would run at the sight of a silkie.

It wasn't until I'd raised roosters separately from the flock that I got rid of the breed aggression that Pumpkin taught.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wow going to try moving the marans into the main coop tonight ameracauna rooster is the question he is great with young pullets protects them

 

[mixedbreeds]

Well I was wrong about one of my eggs in the incubator thought there was a crack in the shell but it’s something on the outside that looked like it, but there is one piped now right on time it was 8:00pm when I set them 21 days ago.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wow good luck this greeted me this morning sure hope

it is pullet

 

[mixedbreeds]

That’s a cute one

 

[pennyJo1960]

It is sure hope it is pullet I take my life in hands to look at them you know
I have 4 silky