“I am so happy with our white silkie hen. She has the biggest pouf ball on her head, a nice muff and really nicely feathered feet. She is a gorgeous bird. We ordered six silkie hens from My Pet Chicken and they are all three months and no one is crowing, so I’m thinking everything was sexed correctly. Everybody was bearded exceptionally well except for our buff (which was exactly what I had hoped for!) They are all gorgeous birds. Service from MPC couldn’t have been any better. Well worth the wait for these beauties.”
“Although I love all of my chicks; I think this little girl stole my heart. She is my only bantam so I was worried about her being so small, but she just snuggles her way to the middle of the group. Very, very sweet and cuddly with humans as well.”
“I bought several MPC silkies, all sexed correctly as females. They are all super friendly (we love dressing them up and giving them baths when white ones need it!). They climb right into our laps. They started laying eggs at 20 weeks on the day, and are great layers of 4-5 eggs per week each! They have excellent feathering and poofs, the quality I had hoped for. Like all silkies, they tend to go broody, especially a couple in particular. However they stay gentle and friendly when I move them out of their nest and break easily. Love them dearly!”
“I ordered one white and one black silkie, the black silkie died within 9 days and had an extremely vaulted skull... Now the only silkie left is the white one who thankfully doesn't have the vaulted skull but has a crossed beak. This has been really disheartening I could understand issues with shipping chicks but the genetic issues I wasn't prepared for. The other chicks are in good health so it's not nutrition or vitamin deficiency leading to these issues when it's just been problems with the silkies.”
“The biggest fluffiest chick, we named her Big Betsy, later somehow nicknamed Boots. Boots is so odd. The noises that come out of her are ungodly. She's also about as smart as a boot. But she survived the great hawk attack of 2022 with a quarter sized gash in her side. She didn't care one bit, literally no reaction, when we took her to the vet, got her stitches and antibiotics, and kept her as a house hen for a week as she recovered. What a girl. Truly remarkable.”
