For Joy - sleeping Grace

This is my wee Gracie sound asleep on the back of my sofa, while I'm talking to Glenn & Joy on chat - poor thing doesn't realise she's a chook and not a lap dog







Suz

Is she one you bred from our chickens or did you buy the eggs and incubate them.

She does look lovely

oh my god suz, would love one of those!

but the OH tells me I can only have them if they produce!

I'm told they don't lay many eggs!

xx

I don't know how much they lay as it varies from site to site, but the average seems to be between 90 and 120 eggs a year - think the problem is they go broody easily.

Lottie, I haven't bred any silkies yet their all too young. Grace is number 2 lone hatch and the future wife of Mika - who is equally as tame being a lone hatch No.1.

Skye the blue silkie (lone hatch No.3) is tame but not quite as good as Mika & Grace, but she's only just coming up to 4 weeks and now has the other baby silkies as company

I've been after silkies for a while...got lots more pestering to do first. But she's very beautiful

I'm after some more silkies too - the fox has taken nearly all mine and I'm just left with a handsome lone cockerel who is desperate for a lady love and consequently tries his luck with anything that moves (we've had some very surprised miniature bantam cocks, as a result)