Silkie thread!

[Hinotori]

@loyalcrowlist -- (Partridge Silkies -- Nothing else) is a BYC thread you might enjoy perusing. @Hinotori has some beautiful Partridge photos as do many others!

No recent pictures here. We're in the muddy 2/3 of the year. It's been bad.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

@Chicken_tiger_catt -- curious why you want to breed a standard-size Plymouth Rock roo to a bantam Silkie hen? I know a breeder who breeds Satin Silkies (smooth feathers), Laced Silkies, and Showgirls, besides regular bearded and non-bearded Silkies. And in England they have standard full-size Silkies too. But I wonder what you're project is aiming for?

just figured it would look cool. also means one less expensive silkie to buy.

 

[Sylvester017]

@Hinotori -- we're in the middle of our annual deluge too. So we've been keeping all birds in-house to keep Silkies from getting drenched. They think rain will run-off their feathers like standard chickens but they get soaked and cold! There's plenty of patio roofs and canopies for shelter but adventurous GINNY would rather walk through and drink from dirty rain puddles rather than drink from the clean coop waterer.

GINNY drying out after the rain - 2 years ago

SUZU drying out - 2 years ago

Meanwhile our 3 new Silkie chicks in the den are growing way too fast! LOVE these babies!

 

[Sylvester017]

@Hinotori -- you may not have recent pics but Partridge Silkies -- Nothing else thread has a photo history of your beautiful Partridges!

 

[Sylvester017]

@Chicken_tiger_catt -- you must post pics of chicks once you try out your breeding project

 

[Hinotori]

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

@Chicken_tiger_catt -- you must post pics of chicks once you try out your breeding project

That won’t be for a while yet, but I just got some miscellaneous eggs from my aunt, not sure about chicken moms, but the chickens will either have a Rhode Island Red or a Plymouth Rock as their father, so that’s gonna be interesting. Update in three weeks hopefully!

 

[Sylvester017]

@Hinotori -- always enjoy your Partridges pics! My local Silkie breeder has Satin Silkies, Laced Silkies, and Showgirls but as cute or novel as those are I'm still partial to the regular bearded Partridges. Even though the Partridge we got from our seller gave us a non-bearded Partridge she has become my favorite new chick because of her funny personality. She still photo-bombs!

And you're correct about non-bearded having better vision cuz periodically we have to trim around the eyes of our adult girls so that they'll spook less in their surroundings and stop shaking their heads or scratching their face to target their annoying facial fuzz.

 

[Sylvester017]

@Chicken_tiger_catt -- Oh, I realize breeding takes time. Just post pics whenever. I've been on BYC for almost 12 years so I have time to wait

 

[MamaPoult]

Here is my miss foof, miss poof and patricia