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I've got a big silkie boy who lost his missus early in the year. He's not a showable boy as he has a bit too much ordinary feather in his wings.
I also have one solitary buff cochin hen. Typically I sold a trio, then lost my own cockeral and the other hen to something red and nasty when he dropped past one day (two days later the local estate gamekeeper dropped past as well...nuff said)
They are keeping each other company, but I'm wondering weather to at some point set some eggs off them. The cochin is a good sitter, and silkies are usually good broodies, so my thought was that the cross would give me good sized reliable brooders.
What does everyone else think?
I also have one solitary buff cochin hen. Typically I sold a trio, then lost my own cockeral and the other hen to something red and nasty when he dropped past one day (two days later the local estate gamekeeper dropped past as well...nuff said)
They are keeping each other company, but I'm wondering weather to at some point set some eggs off them. The cochin is a good sitter, and silkies are usually good broodies, so my thought was that the cross would give me good sized reliable brooders.
What does everyone else think?
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