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My recent generations of Silkie crosses no longer have Silkie traits but some still crop up on occasion. The dark skin and eyes sometimes appear on black or dark blue birds and some might have 4 or 5 feather follicles on their outer shanks. The crests were fairly easy to eliminate. They lay blue...

Purebred silkied Ayam Cemanis exist but I don't believe that they have been imported to the US. I have only seen them in photos.

They look like regular Ameraucanas here. The black one remains a mystery

Thank you, Marsha and dheltzel. I'm located in southern NH so it looks as if local pickup is out of the question. I can wait until early spring. Especially not knowing what kind of a winter we will have this year it's best to wait. Last year was brutal. But I'd raise them indoors if need be...

I don't know exactly what I got from Jubaby. She was first introducing normal feathered birds in an attempt to get a more vigorous bird. I know she had sent some eggs from the original birds but the chicks never made it out of the shells. I also hatched a black chick from the eggs she sent which...

I ended up with a trio of normal feathered Ameraucanas from Jubaby. The only way I was going to try to salvage the idea of getting silkied offspring was to try and breed them to Silkies. They're about five years old now and I'm no spring chicken myself. The cock produced 50% silkied birds when...

Is there anyone selling eggs? I keep checking eBay and the sales forum and no luck there. I still have the original birds from eggs that I got from Jubaby but I was only able to hatch normal feathered F1 birds, and have had no luck in getting silkied chicks from them. I ended up crossing them...

I'm thinking fox, too. Foxes (and dogs) will sometimes toss their prey up into the air while shaking it to kill/stun it and that could explain the hen you found in the garden. Probably it landed there and slid. If a fox doesn't feel that its in any danger, it will stick around and kill all of...

OK, now I'm ready to do the sweet pickles. It's been awhile but the cucumbers have been tucked away in the fridge and are no worse off. I even sampled them for bitterness. I know they won't last forever in there so it's time I finished canning. The compelling question is what will happen if I...

Thanks everyone, for the suggestions. I was given a dill pickling packet and I'll use that for some of them. I hadn't even thought of making sweet pickles or even sweet relish but now I have ideas and a recipe. I'll have to remember to sample the cucumbers for bitterness. I've been thinking...

I grew up on a farm and we did a lot of pickling and canning but we never had to deal with 13" long cucumbers. This is exactly what a neighbor gave to another neighbor who passed them on to me because he didn't know what to do with them. Well, they aren't exactly pickling cucumbers but I can't...

This is the Tuzo cock that I used to have. A fox got him last fall. I've posted photos earlier in this thread but there are new people viewing who haven't seen them and they're long buried now.

You aren't supposed to do that here, either. You might want to edit before a mod sees it. I'm not trying to police the thread, just a heads up.

That was why I refrained from answering your question

They are almost the same as the Rampuri Asil with some individuals looking identical. I'm not sure what you mean by how they behave.

Some people might disagree with me but Tuzos are small Asils.

I had some excellent Tuzos that I bred for a number of years. I moved and then lost my last one, a pullet, to a fox. I'm going to be getting some more in the fall for certain.

I finally was able to take a better photo today. He's on the go all the time so I need to be to get a good shot.