I have silkies as well, this is my first year with them. I have a splash roo and a blk roo and they are sweet hearts. I can pick them up at anytime and they are fine with it. I can also pick up my hens and they are white. Did not realize when I got them home from someone that lives near me that the hens were all white but that is okay. I am not really hatching for color its just for fun. And I like to see what I might get out of the breeds I get. I noticed Thursday that one of my silkies is sitting on 3 eggs so I went to one of my standard size pens and grabbed 2 eggs and set them in there with her. My daughters who feed when I am not able to get out there have said that it seems she is sitting on them as well. I will check later when I go out to feed, and check everyones water.
Deana
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "John & Suze Scott" <suze.scott@...> wrote:
>
> Silkie roos are sweethearts! I have about a dozen: two partridge, one
> red, two white, two blue, one splash, one buff, one crele, one
> chocolate, one columbian...I'm probably forgetting someone. In general
> they have more personality than the girls (as with everything, there are
> exceptions). They usually like cuddling and feather stroking.
>
> Matty, my chocolate roo is the only one who ever tried going after me
> (and only me). He would try to sneak up and bite my ankle, but I cured
> him of that with the watch him from the corner of my eye as my head was
> turned away, then reach out, grab him, cuddle him in a football hold and
> embarrass him thoroughly by carrying him around and talking baby talk to
> him.
>
> The splash will bite my hand if he thinks I am trying to grab his
> hens--just enough to get my attention. He doesn't bite if I pick him up
> or cuddle him or if I approach the hens from the side, not from above.
>
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