Talk:Silkie

message: I've added a photo of my two silkie hens to the page. A higher-resolution photo would still be good. I also question the claim that Ayam Cemani chickens have black blood. Does anyone have a reliable source for this claim? I have found this website http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Cemani/BRKCemani.html but it clearly is unsure about the black blood. Limeguin 12:55, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When our silkie got stolen by a coyote, it didn't look as though there was black blood... but that's just anecdote, of course, and it was pretty dusty. Maybe there's a show breeder site or something that might have information? Or a vet?192.211.25.9 15:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  From pictures of slaughtered birds I found on the internet, silkies have dark red blood. I would assume this would be true for other black-fleshed birds. I cannot see how black blood could work.
67.168.59.171 (talk) 09:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  blood color 

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message: As I was reading the article, I read a section which said silkies were good mothers but poor layers.  That was where I had to disagree.  I have 5 silkie hens myself and they all lay very well when they are not broody.  I get about 4 eggs a day from my 5 silkie hens.  If I had to only pick one breed to keep in my coop it would have to be the silkie because of how well they sit and lay. Just thought I should add this.
75.100.26.136 (talk) 19:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems With The Article 

message: There is disagreement within the literature about the hardiness of the the Silkie breed in tempoerature extremes.  Author Carol Ekarius (Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds, 2007, p 158) claims Silkies do poorly out-of-doors in extreme hot or cold climates due to the structure of their feathers, while author Esther Verhoef (The Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens, 2003, p=231) claims that despite the impression their fluffy appearance may give, that this breed is very robust and impervious to the cold and the like.
My two hens and one rooster survived last year's -7 (Celsius) winter under a very rudimentary shelter without difficulties, shortly after which the two hens incubated a dozen eggs between them of which eleven hatched. Surely that must count as "doing well"; the only question is: is that cold enough to count as "extreme"?
Old_Wombat (talk) 02:46, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversies and research directions 

message: I own some silkies and can submit my own images, said images therefore not having any licensing issues. I have images of white hens, a partridge (colour) rooster (very close up and detailed because it is in a cage with the cage therefore visible) and some partridge chicks. But there seems to be a lack of consensus about whether we should have more images here or not, so I ask the question .... do we (want these images)?
Old_Wombat (talk) 02:40, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some images available 

message: I have exchanged the image of a white silkie male for a full body image of better quality. Just to note. Anjwalker (talk) 10:30, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Image 

message: Look, putting aside that Wikipedia is not about anecdotal articles, I wonder how far the above sentence is true. My partridge rooster is without a doubt the most aggressive chook I have ever owned, in over 40 years of poultry keeping. Our chicken run is also our vegetable garden, and whenever I go in there he immediately attacks me. For those who have seen the movie, it is comically reminiscent of Kato in the "Pink Panther" movies.  The only way I can get any gardening done is to grab him when he attacks and then put him into a cage until I have finished.
Accepting that the hens are indeed very docile, is there any more general info about roosters? Do I have a one-off bully? Or is this common?
Old_Wombat (talk) 08:50, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  " Among the most docile of poultry," - is this true??? 

message: There's an edit war going on currently revolving around the "fluffy chicken" Tumblr post. Does this merit inclusion in the Silkie article? If so, how much? timothymh (talk) 03:32, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Popular culture" section 

message: Does anyone have a better photo of a Silkies foot? The one on the page is displaying terrible feathering (no inner toe feathering and sparse outer toe feathering) and overgrown toe nails which is hardly a great example of what the foot should look like. JTdale  Talk 15:22, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better photo(s)? 

message: Why is the word silkie written with an upper-case S throughout this article? It is an ordinary noun, not a proper noun, isn't it? Surely it should be silkie, not Silkie, except when it is the first word of a sentence.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.211.33.66 (talk) 09:08, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the name of a breed, and in Wikipedia (as just about everywhere else) we capitalise breed names. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:34, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the upper-case S? 

message: It is totally wrong to put that they are from Japan not from China--177.226.233.9 (talk) 18:29, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who said China was your country of origin?