What in the world are these guys??

[stethomps]

Dose anyone have any ideas what breed these little guys might be?

Here is the story: I bought them last fall as “Silkie Chicks”. Now that they are 8 months old, I know they are not silkie’s. They look like silkies <sorta>, they have the same type of feathering, 5 toes, feathering on their legs, but they are at least twice the size of my two silkie hens. They are great little guys, very friendly with people; like to be held and such, but they do not like each other.

I believe I saw a standard breed once that looked like a silkie, but for the life of me, I cant remember where or what it was?

I really dont have the need or the room for them, and I am going to try to rehome them, but was hoping to figure out what they were, so I could find them a proper new home.

Thanks

 

[Break an Egg]

Those look like they could have been bred with something else at one point, but they have some silkie heritage too. There are LF silkies, but as far as I know they are not available in the US.

 

[FireTigeris]

Bennie is like them, looks like a silkie but is too big, much smaller then my LF hens but too big for a silkie roo...

I wonder if they are all from the same cross- Bennie also has hard tail feathers ans wing feathers making him really PQ.

 

[stethomps]

Thanks, I am hoping to figure it out soon because they are not having much of a life right now. I really dont have a breeding pen to put them in, and if they are together they fight like game chickens; hormones, they stayed inside all winter together w/o a problems. Now they are out and around some hens, it is game on! But, except for the times I am out to let them free graze (one at a time); they are pretty much stuck in these hutches.

If anyone around me wants them, let me know!

 

[FireTigeris]

Somebody that wanted to work on LF silkie?

Not me I have a suspicious chick from a pullet bin here already.

 

[rancher hicks]

You mean beside ugly?

 

[stethomps]

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I know, I cant figure it out either, and usually I am pretty good at this! I could have swore I saw one time on a hatchery site I saw a rare std breed that looked similar to a silkie, but I cant remember where or when. I have spent a few hours cruising the sites with no luck.

I could have been dreaming, but if I wasn’t someone on here will know, I am sure of it. But for now, I am thinking they are probably just silkie mutts?

 

[stethomps]

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hahaha! I know they are ugly! My kids wanted silkies, but I have grown kinda found of them now!

 

[FireTigeris]

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I know, I cant figure it out either, and usually I am pretty good at this! I could have swore I saw one time on a hatchery site I saw a rare std breed that looked similar to a silkie, but I cant remember where or when. I have spent a few hours cruising the sites with no luck.

I could have been dreaming, but if I wasn’t someone on here will know, I am sure of it. But for now, I am thinking they are probably just silkie mutts?

I was told mine was pure silkie (here) just very poorly bred - if these are all really poor silkies, but large then makbe someone could start using them to fix the type and get bigger birds-

How much do yours weigh?

Do they have standard silkie temperment?

How are the spurs (my boys spurs are pitiful)

If it would help I could get more picts of Bennie when he's not freeranging -

 

[rancher hicks]

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hahaha! I know they are ugly! My kids wanted silkies, but I have grown kinda found of them now!

I was just funnin ya.