We have bantam silkies waiting to mature. None of these have been named as of yet, as we would like to see their personalities come through when they have their own run and that is still a couple of months away!
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| The white bird in this picture is ours and now has beautiful gold flecks all the way through her feathers. |
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| Our red cockerel. |
I Love silkies. I plan to have a few hens in spring as they will be my main method of incubating eggs. Having seen the difference between the chicks we hatch and the chicks Rockiy hatched this year there is no comparison. A broody hen is a gem indeed.
We will also be breeding these beautiful birds. I plan to breed the bantam and the large fowl, but we are going to take our time to find the right large fowl birds. As I said in the last post we have two gorgeous partridge silkies of which at least one is a hen, so we have a start. We also have a miniture hen who is just beautiful, and again we plan to wait to find the right breeding stock.
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| Our Miniture Silkie Hen |
Next are the Cochin, We have three hens and a cockerel. The cockerel was a gift from a friend and the hens were Birthday Boy's gift this year!
Goliath is a beautiful Splash Cockerel. Needs work to make him a bit tamer, but he has great potential. Then we have Sybil who has had problems with growing back feathers and will not be used for breeding but will be kept for egg laying. We also have two other hens a white and a blue. They are such a wonderful breed their shape and size is gorgeous! Pictures to follow soon...
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