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Silkies mixed with Cochins can produce "Satins", Silkie traits with smooth feathers. Silkies mixed with NNs can produce "Showgirls". Neither are recognized by the ABA as far as I know, but they are so cute. I would say she is a satin showgirl. Here are a few of mine. 1. Rain, satin 2...

Between my daughters and I we have around 130. I'll post pictures of favorites.

You have a beautiful pair of barred Old English Game bantams. They are friendly, great mothers, very protective. The personalities are adorable.

My lead roo has the same issue. I finally caught a hen plucking and eating his feathers while they were roosting for night. He lets her do it. He is constantly growing new feathers there, but they never get to come in enough to be more than a pin feather spike. They have plenty of protein and...

Chickens can take weeks to months to get their system regulated once they start laying. Some lay eggs with extra calcium, some lay eggs without a shell, some lay fairy eggs. Some of my girls lay a nice smooth, one color egg with almost a shine it's so smooth. Others lay a smooth egg with spots...

My lead rooster is going on 8y. He has always been a gentleman with the hens and asks politely. Even with the bantams. (He is a bantam cochin, but a good sized one) Ed will get extra frisky around this time each year. Its nesting season and he wants to mate and procreate. Occasionally he will...

Easter Eggers are basically mutts with a blue egg gene. They can be any color and lots of patterns. These have hen patterning that looks like they got their blue gene from a Cream Legbar. They look like Easter Eggers to me, and pretty ones, too.

Very likely from the commercial farm as they are all the same and it looks like their top beaks were clipped. It's often done with commercial chickens since it keeps them from injuring each other by pecking. If over crowded, they will peck. Once blood is drawn, they will continue to peck until...

I would love to see an updated picture of your partridge cochin!

If it's spelled Ameraucana and has colors to choose from, it is likely a true Ameraucana. If it is Americana (sp diff.) then it is an EE. Most hatcheries misspell Ameraucana to sell their EE and confuse their customers. I find it an abhorrent practice, but they all do it. Some do have actual...

There is nothing more adorable than a mama hen with her baby!

Early blooming little boy. So cute!

I bought a book called How to Talk Chicken. I thought it would be funny, but it's really informative. Apparently, our chickens name us, just like we do to them. The author says that you can figure out their name for you by listening when you first go out. I don't know what mine is. Probably...

We had always like the taste of our eggs, until we changed feed. We started using Producers Pride to save some money. Bad idea. The eggs started tasting spoiled. They were so gross. We switched to the next price point up and within a couple of days the eggs tasted normal again. Feed can...

I was 19, newly married and grew up in a pretty big city. My husband grew up rurally and took me to my first state fair. I fell in love with chickens, particularly bantams! We bought a few from the fair and the golden sebright pullet became my first pet chicken. We eventually ended up with...

I have white bantam Cochins, both smooth and frizzle. We have a pair of what appears to be white Sebrights, but I didn't know that was an available color. We have also had a white Turken, d'Uccle and white Seramas.

We picked a silkie mix from a breeder. She has flat feathers, white skin and scales, etc., five toes, crested. She has all the hallmarks of a silkie satin, except the white skin and scales. We think she is beautiful. Her name is Socks. I think your silkie is amazing. Self blue is my favorite...

And guard the babies as if they are 10 foot tall and bullet proof!

Not full blooded, but Duck and our Apricot (silkie mama) did share a nestbox