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Super! I'll make sure to have a ramp up to the roost.

I"m using MyPetChicken who source from Meyers, and my friends got some more quarantine chicks (they already had chickens) and they've had good success with their barred rock. Hopefully it will all turn out ok.

What hatchery did you use?

Maybe if I got a bantam barred rock? You can see that I'm grasping at straws here, but they are my mom's favorites and I really don't want to omit one.

Would the rocks and the silkies being raised together hopefully solve that problem? :fl

I don't have to worry about roosters as neither my parents nor the neighbors would *appreciate* me having any. I'll keep that in mind for the future, though!

Some examples of calm breeds? I've been looking at: -Splash Marans -Silver Laced Cochin -Easter Egger -Bantam Barred Rock (would be the flock established with the silkie) Introducing these breeds a year or so later: -Speckled Sussex -Australorp -White Leghorn -Cream Legbar OR Olive egger OR...

My friends have a silkie rooster who loves to have a 'shower' out in the rain. He looks like a drowned rat! I am definitely going to have a covered run, they get so gross anyway when it rains and it doesn't have time to dry out :sick

I've never had silkies before but I am most likely getting one this spring. Anything I should know, aside from the FLOOF and the broodiness?