Broodies on the Homestead

[Miss Lydia]

Sounds beautiful how about a pic?

 

[Mini Horses]

We had hatch day yesterday

So cute! I love to see new chicks.

What kind do you have there? The hen is very nice.

Hintori, with Silkies you have the "fluffy" look all their lives LOL

 

[Hinotori]

Isabel is normally buff with two copies of lavender. Partridge with two copies gives pretty much the same color. It's kind of a white with color overlays on top.

 

[Hinotori]

So cute! I love to see new chicks.

What kind do you have there? The hen is very nice.

Hintori, with Silkies you have the "fluffy" look all their lives LOL

Oh I know. Some of their "hairdos" get a little excessive. You have hatchery quality where the crest (and body fluff) is small and the bird sees pretty well.

Normal crest where with strategic trim the bird could see decently.

Then excessive where they walk into everything if they move too quick.

This poor 9 week old pullet will have the excessive crest.

 

[Miss Lydia]

oh my goodness how pretty, I do believe I'd be doing some trimming I can't stand my bangs in my eyes I can imagine how those poor birds feel. I like to be able to see. I do love Silkies


My hen is Snow she is an OEGB and her chicks are 3 Chocolate Orps and 2 Cochin bantams.

 

[Mini Horses]

help -- OEGB ? Brain not going there this AM. LOL

I love my Orps. I have buffs, one lavender....chocolates sound nice (of course, I love eating chocolate candy)

But, I do like the colored eggs (as do customers) & they sell well -- both eggs & pullets to all the "in town can only have 4 hens" groups. These often want hens with different color so then can name & tell apart. So I do some hatches of EEs & have to work harder to separate pures for those breeds to get a good mix of the pure strains & the mixes. Market sales rule.

 

[Mini Horses]

Hinotori -- ok, I can't imagine having to give haircuts to my chickens -- no time! But do these guys have feathers? Well, obviously not like we think of feathers on our other birds. It's an interesting bird, what with the look and the meat color, etc.
And they seem to stay broody like many bantams.

Where did they originate? Yeah, I could look it up but, you know already. Easier to ask.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Old English Game bantam
Most of my friends like the colored eggs too one reason I have EE's those blue eggs are pretty next to the brown of the BA. I use to have an EE[ she got water belly]at over 5 yrs old but she laid a pinkish colored egg.

I also have Indian Runner ducks who lay a blue egg.
Our town just passed an ordinance that folks can now have hens for eggs. Sure glad I don't live in town I love my roos.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I got some EE's because I liked the idea of fun colored eggs. They're just not my style, personality wise. To me, flighty birds are not worth the colors!

 

[Hinotori]

Hinotori -- ok, I can't imagine having to give haircuts to my chickens -- no time! But do these guys have feathers? Well, obviously not like we think of feathers on our other birds. It's an interesting bird, what with the look and the meat color, etc.
And they seem to stay broody like many bantams.

Where did they originate? Yeah, I could look it up but, you know already. Easier to ask.

Silkies originated in China. They are an old breed, accounts of them go back at least 500 years. Marco Polo wrote about them. They were added to the US Standard of Perfection in 1874. Their feathers lack the little hooks that make them look like feathers. Like how down feathers are.


My EEs and wheaten ameraucana have been pretty friendly birds. Except for the odd colored EEs I got one year. The biggest issue I've had with them is that they will pluck and eat each others feathers if their food protein drops below 20 percent. They do like their space and to roam.

The silkies don't seem to care on space. They are calm birds unless you startle the. Which is easy with those crests. Then they leap into the air flapping and squawking, land in a random direction, and run. Moving slow through them helps a bunch. As my pictures have shown, getting them to sit still in one spot is fairly easy, as long as they can't see their pen. None of my large fowl are that docile.