Buff Silkie's
Our Bearded Buff Silkies
Egg Prices
1/2 Dozen - $25
1 Dozen - $40
Price includes s/h cost on eggs.
Chick Prices
Straight run Chicks are $4 per chick
Meet "Zilla", our beautiful bearded buff silkie rooster. He is doing a great job on fertilizing our eggs and taking care of his girls.
Here is Zilla with some of his ladies. They are excellent quality, with gorgeous crests, heavy foot feathering and wonderful buff plumage.
Please watch our site for updates about our new cockerel and pullets we will be adding to our flock. All of our silkies are selected carefully in an effort to provide the best quality offspring. We select our breeders based on the ABA standard of perfection, including plumage color, eye color, skin color, proper toes (5 toes on each foot), heavy foot feathering, nice crests and excellent health & vigor.
:Some Silkie Info:
Silkies have the appearance of a big fluffy ball of feathers due to their feathers lacking functioning barbicel; essentially
all their feathers are very much like down.
Their unique appearance and quiet temperament mean they are often kept as pets.
The hens easily become broody, and are considered excellent mothers.
Silkies cannot fly.
As such, predators can be more of a problem for silkies than other breeds.
Silkies are smaller chickens, with size being intermediate between bantams and standard sized chickens.
Silkies are near-unique among chickens — both skin and bones are black which,
apart from Silkies, is only found in the rare Ayam Cemani breed from Indonesia
(which is a normally-feathered breed that is completely black, including the blood).
They also have five toes, whereas most chickens only have four.
The ABA accepts six standard colors for silkies
black
blue
buff
white
partridge
gray
There are also two other colors: splash, and red.
Weights for silkie bantams
Cock......36oz Hen......32oz
Cockerel......32oz Pullet......28oz
The Silkie is a variety of chicken believed to have originated in eastern Asia.
There are two varieties of silkie: bearded and non-bearded.
Marco Polo is reported to have encountered Silkies in China at the end of the 13th Century
Silkies are only bantam size in the USA.
