Going from what Bobbi Porto (silkie exhibition breeder) at indigoegg.us told me, she will not ship just one chicken in a box. I wanted two pullets from her, and she also would not sell me just pullets; I also had to buy, at a reduced cost, two roosters. By the time I was done, I had received...
Bantam is a class reference to size and silkies can be considered bantam, but I've come across a few with true bantam breeds that sometimes don't like silkies thrown into that classification.
I think it's a manner of thinking is all. I don't know what google was talking about with two...
Gotcha. I have just silkies here. Not sure if they're considered standard or bantam as I never weighed them. These are show quality, and I strive to meet SOP standards. One of them recently won in a national competition in Ohio.
I got pictures of the chicks finally, right when they came out. These were hen-raised so wild as heck!
There are some older ones to the right that live with them.
I had hatched these and gave them to a broody for the purposes of helping my spring rush of people wanting chicks. I started...
We checked into doing DLM with ours. We chose not to, and went with horse bedding pellets. Why?
We have a linoleum floor.
We already have humidity issues (Wisconsin is a humid state, especially where we are) and DLM would make things worse, not better, and
Horse bedding pellets are virtually...
What do you mean by Standards?
I call mine show quality (bearded and vaulted). There's a link to my silkie page in my signature if you want to see what I mean.
Hi Geri!
A member put together a list of silkie breeders. This list is by far not complete at all but gives you a start. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/silkie-breeders.77425/
I and several are listed here: https://www.poultryshowcentral.com/
The best source for me has been...
Hi!
Beautiful photos!
I almost think 10x10 is a lot for quail unless you have a lot of quail. Depending, you could probably do a 5x10 to not cut the ducks off as much. It appears you let your ducks free range though so they probably won't care.
Here's a great quail article that might help...
They have a condominium! Cute! Love it!
That's always funny how people change their minds until they see them. We have ducks now, in addition to around 50 chickens. ☺️
Hi, and welcome to BYC!
I've never clipped one of our chickens or ducks, but have done our macaw parrots a few times. We only do one wing of each.
Three and a half feet might be questionable. They still have flight, just can't get much air when one wing is missing half the feathers.
Here's...
Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow
Wow, busy lady! Sounds fun there!
You might be interested in checking out our sister site, the Easy Garden sometime.
Here, we've got a Duck forum and a Quail forum, and even one for caged birds like your parakeets and cockatiels. So if ever you have...
My understanding of partridge silkies as if you have a white rooster, you might randomly but not commonly, pop a partridge out with any given silkie hen. I found that to be true with my pet quality ones. They have a white rooster, and in years past, when that's all I had, I had gotten several...