Welcome to Smokin Silkies
We live in a small town located in Western, PA
We have a house on almost 5 acres, with a lot being wooded area. It's nice and quiet most of the time and I love having the privacy!
Here's the story about how I got started with chickens: In 2006 my daughter, which then was 12, was incubating eggs in her 6th grade class at school. She came home one day begging me to let her bring these chicks home when they hatched. The first things out of my mouth were "your not bringing any stinky, dirty chickens here!" Over the next week, the begging continued and I finally gave in. I made her agree that she was to take full care of them at all times! I went online and found BYC (backyardchickens.com)
I found everything I needed to know about getting started with chickens. I spent a whole week on the computer getting every detail I could...which by the way is ALOT and I'm still learning after 6 years lol.
So anyways, the chicks hatched and the teacher gave them to another student who already had chickens on their farm :C My daughter was bummed so we went to a local farm and bought about 6-7 chickens and a turkey that my husband wanted. We got some mutt breeds that all looked the same to me at that time, just different colors...except one odd one. We didn't know what it was but it had this big poof on its head. Later on, I found a similar looking chicken online called a Silkie. That's where it all started for me! I ordered my first incubator, an LG still air, and bought some hatching eggs. I bought from the best breeders across the USA and I've been raising Silkies ever since :D
Update 2014- I've decided to sell out of all of my Silkies except for the Chocolate Silkies I am working on. It was a very hard decision for me and took a year for me to sell them. I am now focusing on my Chocolates hoping to improve their type. The color is spot on though! A very nice Chocolate :)
We live in a small town located in Western, PA
We have a house on almost 5 acres, with a lot being wooded area. It's nice and quiet most of the time and I love having the privacy!
Here's the story about how I got started with chickens: In 2006 my daughter, which then was 12, was incubating eggs in her 6th grade class at school. She came home one day begging me to let her bring these chicks home when they hatched. The first things out of my mouth were "your not bringing any stinky, dirty chickens here!" Over the next week, the begging continued and I finally gave in. I made her agree that she was to take full care of them at all times! I went online and found BYC (backyardchickens.com)
I found everything I needed to know about getting started with chickens. I spent a whole week on the computer getting every detail I could...which by the way is ALOT and I'm still learning after 6 years lol.
So anyways, the chicks hatched and the teacher gave them to another student who already had chickens on their farm :C My daughter was bummed so we went to a local farm and bought about 6-7 chickens and a turkey that my husband wanted. We got some mutt breeds that all looked the same to me at that time, just different colors...except one odd one. We didn't know what it was but it had this big poof on its head. Later on, I found a similar looking chicken online called a Silkie. That's where it all started for me! I ordered my first incubator, an LG still air, and bought some hatching eggs. I bought from the best breeders across the USA and I've been raising Silkies ever since :D
Update 2014- I've decided to sell out of all of my Silkies except for the Chocolate Silkies I am working on. It was a very hard decision for me and took a year for me to sell them. I am now focusing on my Chocolates hoping to improve their type. The color is spot on though! A very nice Chocolate :)
UPDATE! Sorry but I am no longer raising Silkies at all anymore!
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