silkies do not lay a lot and because off that the sickie would have a very slim chance of laying eggs in the winter would be very slim
Yes, silkie bantams do lay edible eggs that are similar in taste and nutritional value to standard chicken eggs. However, silkie bantam eggs are typically smaller than average chicken eggs.
The Silkie - novel - was created in 1969.
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Yes, they can. My birds laid an egg in the winter.
Our silkie bantam started crowing at 16 wks.
whats the difference between silky cocks and pullets in chicks
Most Silkie hens and roosters are identical and sometimes the rooster Silkie doesn't crow through out his whole life. The only way you can tell them apart if the Silkie is mating with hens and has a spur then of course it is a rooster. And if a Silkie laid eggs or is sitting on eggs then she is a hen. Another way to tell them apart is if you have a hybrid Silkie that Silkie might get a big wattle and comb.
Chickens can only lay one egg every 24 hours, and they can lay in winter if there is light from 14-16 hours a day (that's when they lay best) but I'm not an expert and I think there is more to it than that.
I have Leghorn and Silkie chickens and live in NJ where the weather get fairly cold for a few weeks in the winter where it goes below 20 degrees F and my birds lay eggs all winter. Your production might go down but that is lack of daylight. add light to the coop give them around 12 to 14 hours of light and production should be same as summer time.
Silkie chickens are extremely calm. When you raise a silkie chicken from when young it helps. My sister got a silkie chicken from a chicken breeder online. At first the silkie would screech every time you would pick her up, but my sizer held her every day for about a week; now all I can say that chicken is the most tame and calm chicken we have... She even won 1st place in showing at the fair.
She is currently doing activist work with her boyfriend, Charlie Veitch, owner of The Love Police, a truth peace group. Both Silkie and Charlie are now in Cambridge, with Silkie at Cambridge University.