Who Has Large Fowl Silkies From TSC Store?

[MysteryChicken]

She's behind the other LF silkie on the ramp.

 

[Webfootfowl]

How tall were they?

16 -18 inches tall. They stood up straight and tall.

 

[Webfootfowl]

View attachment 1622502 She's behind the other LF silkie on the ramp.

Do you sell LF silkies?

 

[Webfootfowl]

My sister's silkie is also short, stalky, has a single comb, and very little feathering on her legs with one foot with five toes. So I'd say she's either a meat silkie, or just a pet quality silkie.

The old style silkies have five toes.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Two of my silkies have all five toes, just the hen that doesn't. I'm planning to sell chicks this spring, so yeah I'll throw in a few.

 

[Melky]

View attachment 1622168 View attachment 1622169 My big Silkie Roo next to a Standard Buff Orpington hen.

A true Silkie is a bantam and not a standard large fowl.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I've done a lot of research on silkies, and they're not true bantams since there's a standard and bantam sizes. They actually vary in sizes, from small, smallish, medium, and large fowls.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Does anybody have questions, or anything?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Does anybody have questions, or anything?

What's the difference in a "giant" silkie and an oversized not well bred hatchery silkie?

 

[Webfootfowl]

What's the difference in a "giant" silkie and an oversized not well bred hatchery silkie?

Lol! I crack up about all the hatchery bashing that goes on on these threads. I’ve raised chickens, turkeys, ducks, pigeons of many breeds. Most every flock in America started from hatchery stock. There are exceptions of course. As far as the Silkie goes, we call them Japanese silkies, but are truly a Chinese breed, in China silkies are a standard size chicken that in most cases lays blue eggs. But the crazy people that wanted to bantamize everything, destroyed the silkies in America.