Silkies

Some of our recent paint chicks have great spots!

Silkies are a favorite among chicken owners. Silkies are well

known for their calm, friendly temperament and for being very quiet and docile. They combine a unique appearance with a sweet personality that has made them a popular backyard chickens and pets.

Silkie hens lay about three to four cream-colored eggs a week and are commonly used to hatch eggs from other breeds due to their broody nature.

Silkies come in many colors. We have: Black, Blue, Lavender, Sex-Linked Chocolate, Mauve (Chocolate +Blue), Cuckoo/Chocolate Cuckoo, and Paint.

-Paint have black spots on a white background, much like a paint horse, seen on the side bar to the left.

-We love Naked Necks, and have them in Black, Blue, White, and Paint.

-Occasionally we will have Cuckoo and Satin (smooth feathered) Cuckoos and Satin Cuckoo Chocolates.

To the right are some of our Satin Chocolates in Cuckoo

and solid Chocolate.

-Mottled Black, Blue, and Chocolate are in the works as well!

We will be working on these during 2023.

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One of our young bearded black Silkie roos. He is now a year old and we call him Mr. Handsome!

Paint parents of the above chicks.

To the right are some of our Chocolates.

Beginning at the top and going down are:

Above: Chocolate Cuckoo- Rooster "Charlie

Top upper right- Chocolate Cuckoo hen

middle right- young Chocolate pullet

lower right- young Chocolate pullet

Beneath this caption- a hatch of chocolates with one mauve (blue +chocolate) chicks.

Paint hen in foreground

"Charlie Brown," our Chocolate Satin

Cuckoo rooster won "Most Unique" in a People's Choice Award at the Fancy Feathers Poultry Show in 2023.

Blue Naked Neck

Six Sex-linked Chocolate chicks:

one Mauve chick (chocolate + blue) in the middle.

How does Sex-linked Chocolate Work?

Sex-Linked Chocolate needs one copy of the gene to make Chocolate in a hen, but it needs two copies (one from each parent) to make Chocolate in a rooster.

It can be used to determine sex at hatch if the pens are set up right:

If you have a Chocolate Rooster over Black or Blue hens, all the Chocolates hatched are female. Because of this, I know all these chicks are female at hatch!