“Sooo my silked easter eggers lay beautiful baby blue and mint green eggs!! (Only 1 out of 8 lays the mint green). People think the eggs are fake they look so pretty. Plus they are all so docile and sweet, super happy with my silked easter eggers.”
“We ordered 2 of these adorable chicks along with 3 Easter Egger chicks, a Buff Orpington and 4 Wyandotte chicks. They shipped December 28th and arrived to us near Hershey Pa on December 29th. They are the cutest and sweetest little chicks! One of the girls has silky fluff on her feet the other does not. They both have the classis dark Silkie skin and they are a soft golden yellow color. They are very inquisitive and more apt to come to our hands to eat some feed before the others. We are very excited to watch them grow and especially to see what their egg colors will be! We have nothing but praise to say for MPC and will definitely recommend them to others and order from them again!”
“So our Pearl is one of my favorites. She‚Äôs fiesty but sweet. She‚Äôs beautiful and funny. But she is one of the slim percentage that lays small brown eggs and is not laying over her first winter. Unfortunately my two Green Queens also lay brown eggs and my bantam Easter egger has yet to lay at all (8 months).”
“We got our little Silked White Easter Egger, Meraxes, about a year and a half ago along with her sister Kimchi the Golden Comet and Bulma the Blue Copper Marans. From day one she has been extremely sweet, adorable, and clever. We wound up with a smooth-feathered bird with black skin, an extra toe on each foot, and a beard. She's the smallest bird in our flock right now and while she does get pecked from time to time by the older girls she's extremely tenacious and has mastered running circles around the other girls in order to snatch up treats before they're all gone. Bullying has perhaps not really been an issue due to her above-mentioned innate confidence as well as having been integrated into our small flock alongside her two larger sisters (safety in numbers!). While not exactly a lap bird she's definitely the most docile chicken we have right now and the most tolerant of us handling her (when we can catch her). She's going through a brutal moult right now (in December... great timing) but seems to be pretty cold tolerant and durable. Until her moult began she laid a little pale blue egg almost everyday. The teeniness of her eggs means I usually don't use them when baking but they're a great size for poached and sunny side up eggs, in my opinion.
Also, she makes adorable little soft peeping noises when handled and is very adept at grabbing aphids off our broccoli stems without damaging the actual plant (with her little black tongue darting out and snatching them up, omg so frickin cute). Obviously since these chickens wind up looking quite variable and there's no guarantee you'll get one with silked feathers I can understand why one might hesitate to try one out, but my Silked White Easter Egger is my favorite chicken I've ever had so I say go for it.”
“Oh the silked white easter egger. So adorable, so very cute, so stupid. First we got Stevie Nix this past April. She was adorable from day one. No extra toe, but black legs and skin, half fluff half normal feathers and white as snow. She was slightly smaller then the other chicks/pullets but not by much. At about 8 weeks old she dug under our fence into our neighbor's yard where two pit bulls live. She somehow managed to hide until we found her. A few weeks later when we allowed the pullets to free range with the grown ups she was suddenly missing. We found another pullet just at the fence line where our property backs up to open space. She was gone and a pile of fluffy white feathers left behind. (It should be noted that we did a very thorough job of filling in under the fence, she was just persistent.) Rest in peace our sweet sweet beautiful Stevie.
We loved Stevie so much that we bought a replacement. Dolly. Dolly was different then Stevie from day one. Much more yellow with a cone head, an extra toe and tan skin and feet. She was timid and tiny. She grew to become white with much more fluff then traditional feathers and dusky legs. She remained small and convinced she couldn't hop up let alone fly. One day I went to wake her up out of our pullet coop and she had a huge swollen eye. We had let them mingle for a short time with the big birds and believe it was an injury from them (we have a particularly evil olive egger right now). We have had her isolated for weeks and treating the eye all sorts of ways and it's just now beginning to get better. I worry about her tiny stature if she'll ever be transitioned with the other big birds safely as she is such a target.
In closing I love this breed but they have problems. For the high price tag I feel that they are a bit of a gamble and a mixed bag of what you might get. They are very sweet, docile and beautiful but may be better suited to live with bantams.”
“I got a sultan, silky blue layer and super blue layer. All three are white and have turned out to be the sweetest of my 12 bird flock. Both the silky and super started laying 6 months after I got them.
Alas...my luck wasn't with me. Both are laying light cream colored eggs. But MPC did state a small percentage of each would do that. I'm not faulting MPC. Just my luck.
But I can pick up any of these 3 and handle them easily. Very nice birds.
Most of my flock has come from MPC.”
“I have 8 of these silked easter eggers and I am very impressed. All 8 chicks survived shipment, all 8 are healthy and gorgeous 4 month olds now. Personality wise mine are much bolder than my Faverolles, they are the first to try a new treat or toy. I cannot wait to see what colors their eggs will be”
“Adorable chick, very friendly lap chicken too! I wasn‚Äôt sold on a silkie, my daughter picked, but Ive got to admit she is my fiesty little favorite among my giant breeds. Definitely went through an awkward stage as her wing and feathers developed faster than her silkie-type fuzz everywhere else, but worth the wait. Beautiful eggs too! Hoping to get more of these chicks someday.”
