“I was super excited about these birds but overall it‚Äôs been a huge disappointment. She‚Äôs not friendly at all. She‚Äôs with only two hens and the other hens and roosters are super sweet and will eat treats out of our hands. She won‚Äôt get close to anyone. She was the very last to lay (9 months). Our younger hens started laying at 5 months. And the worst part? Her eggs are white! So very disappointed!”
“I‚Äôve wanted to write this review for a long time, but I waited for her to start laying before giving the five stars just in case her fantastic personality compensated for poor egg laying skills. Happily, I was mistaken! She started laying at at 22 weeks daily with adorable little (for now) blue eggs.
We are just starting our backyard/pet chicken journey and what a wonderful first chicken! We are raising four of different breeds and she is certainly the most sociable and charismatic of the bunch. She’s so gentle and easy going. She’s so sweet to my 3 year old daughter. She lets her pick her up and hold her without a chase like the other girls.
We are so blessed to have this little Silkie Easter egger in our life. I will definitely be getting more of these in the future.”
“We ordered four of these chicks in October of last year. Three arrived healthy, but one was a bit off from the start. I named her Mimi, and despite my best efforts to syringe feed her, Mimi passed away a few days after arriving. MPC was kind enough to refund the cost for Mimi, however.
The other three chicks have grown up to be a hilarious trio, and each appears to be on a scale of "Silkieness." One hen looks to be a full silkie (who we named Silkie out of ease, haha) who lays small, cream colored eggs. The second hen is is mostly silkie, but her poof is not as full. We named her Rocker. She also lays small, cream colored eggs. Our final hen looks like a white Easter egger with fuzzy legs and six toes. She does not have a poof, but she does have the classic Easter egger beard. Her name is Shelly. Shelly also lays small, cream colored eggs.
All three hens are a beautiful, pure white, and are very friendly. I am, however, disappointed in the lack of colored eggs. Despite this, they are much-loved members of our flock.”
“I purchased one of these chicks. She is 9 months old now! She is adorable and soo sweet and funny! She is the first to come running when she sees me. I can't help but smile and laugh when I see her. I will have to get more, one just isn't enough! :)”
“We ordered three hens, and ended up with one hen and two roosters. We had to rehome our two roosters which is a heartbreaking affair for children who raised these chicks and we very attached. While we absolutley adore the one hen we kept, her eggs are blue, but she is a teeny-tiny bird. About half the size of our easter eggers. We were hoping she'd be bigger like the description as we've had a hard time with silkie's being picked off by owls here, so she feels particularly vulnerable giver her size. I would give her as a bird 5 stars. The three stars are that we only got 1/3 of what we ordered.”
“Out of my 5 hens and 3 roosters, we culled two roosters and lost one hen (one of the two small, flighty ones) to a hawk. After she lost her best friend, the other small one, Shrimp, had a personality change the next day and is very people-friendly now, and doesn't startle at her own shadow anymore. The hen we lost laid a small blue egg. Of the four remaining hens, one lays a medium sized aqua egg and the other three lay medium sized rich cream-colored eggs. Their eggs are a longer, narrower oval shape than those of my other breeds. Two of the four are still laying about every other day with no supplemental light despite consistent temperatures in the teens, dipping into the negatives at night. One of the hens is showing an interest in sitting, although she hasn't gone full-broody so far. For the past week she has been mothering one of my Spitzhauben hens who got chilled in -35 windchill. She calls her over to eat and drink as if the Spitzhauben were a chick (they are both 9 months old). Speaking of the windchill, so far these silked white easter eggers have had no problem with the very cold temperatures. The high was -3 the other day and they were happily foraging in the areas where the snow had been cleared. We do have sweeter heaters inside their coop above their perches for the worst weather (I highly recommend for drastic drops in temperature).
The roosters are the most procreation-focused of any breed I have ever had. I kept the rooster that was friendliest with people. None were aggressive to people, but two were a bit flighty and they were built narrow and a bit gangly. The one I kept is built like a heavy breed- thick and blocky. He is working hard all day long finding tasty morsels for the ladies, spotting potential threats, and breeding frequently. Very frequently. The two culled roosters were the same way. I would recommend having aprons on hand for the hens if one of these roosters is kept with only a few hens.
The culled roosters went to freezer camp. They were not the easiest to pluck with their multitude of short, fine feathers, but the bright white at least made them easily visible against the dark skin. Interestingly both birds had two toes with actual claws on each of their wings. One toe was just a bump with a small claw, and the other toe was an actual toe with a proportional claw. The claws were true toenails, not uncapped bone. The meat, organs, and bones were very dark. My family was not particularly fond of the flavor without a lot of barbecue sauce.”
“This is my first ever time raising chicks let alone day olds and these white silkies are very calm pretty much all the time. The only time I hear them ‚Äúwhine‚Äù is when they know it‚Äôs bedtime it seems lol.”
