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Silkies

2006 AWARDS

N.E. Poultry Congress

Reserve of Variety - Black Bearded Silkie Hen

Best of Variety - Blue Bearded Silkie Pullet

ENYPA Show

Reserve of Variety- Blue Bearded Silkie Pullet

Reserve of Variety - Splash Bearded Silkie Hen

Reserve of Variety - White Bearded Silkie Hen

Reserve of Breed - White Bearded Silkie Hen

Reserve of Variety - Splash Bearded Silkie Hen

Reserve of Variety- Blue Bearded Silkie Pullet

New Hampshire Poultry Fanciers Show

Reserve of Variety - White Bearded Silkie Hen

Reserve of Breed - White Bearded Silkie Hen

Best of Variety - Bearded White Silkie Pullet

Best of Breed - Bearded White Silkie Pullet

Best of Variety - Bearded Splash Silkie Pullet

New England Bantam Club

Best of Variety - Bearded Black Silkie Cock

Reserve of Variety - Bearded Blue Silkie Cock

Reserve of Variety - Bearded White Silkie Hen

New England Poultry Congress
Best of Variety - Bearded Blue Silkie Pullet

Reserve of Variety - Bearded Blue Cockerel

Reserve of Variety - Bearded White Silkie Pullet

Reserve of Breed - Bearded White Silkie Pullet

2005 Awards

NEBC Spring Show, Middleboro, MA

Splash Silkie

First Cockerel, First Hen, BV

Northeast Poultry Congress
Best of Variety - Splash

Best of Variety - Black

Connecticut Poultry Breeders Spring Show
Best of Breed - White

Reserve of Breed - Black

Eastern New York Poultry Fanciers, Cobleskill, NY

Reserve of Variety - Black

Best of Variety - Blue

New Hampshire State Fair, Deerfield, NH

Best of Breed - White

Yankee Fall Classic, Syracuse, NY

Best of Breed - Black

MSPF, Frederick, MD

Best of Breed - White

SILKIES

These sweet little bantam chickens are quiet and easy to spoil. They gather around your feet like puppies. In the summer, they can turn into little wild things in your garden as they keep the rows clear of weeds, bugs and low-hanging tomatoes. But you have to keep track of the numbers because the hens can disappear at any time to set on eggs in a secret nest.

Silkies lay very well when they are not broody but they are not production birds. Their feathers are very unusual fluffs and only begin to look like other birds' feathers on the wings where even here, the feathers are twisted. Eyes are black, earlobes are blue and the skin is black.

Silkies, often called Japanese Silkies, are a 2000-year-old breed, bred for the emperors as decoration for the gardens and for medicinal chicken soup.

Golden Egg Farm has hatching eggs from show-quality Silkies available year round.

2007 AWARDS
Cobleskill, New York, Fall Show, ENYPF
Best of Variety - B. Black Pullet
Reserve of Variety - B. Black Hen
Best of Variety - B. Blue Hen
Reserve of Variety - B. Blue Pullet
Reserve of Variety, Reserve of Breed -B. White Bearded Hen

Delmarva Fall Show
Reserve of Variety - B. Blue Splash Pullet
Reserve of Variety - B. Black Hen
Best of Variety+Reserve of Breed - B. White Hen
Best of Variety+Best of Breed-N.B.White Hen

New England Bantam Club Spring Show
Best of Variety - B. Black Pullet
Best of Variety - B. Blue Hen

Connecticut Poultry Breeders- Spring Show
Best of Variety, Best Of Breed - B. White Hen

New Hampshire Poultry Fanciers Fall Show
Best of Variety - B. Black Pullet
Reserve of Variety - B. Black Hen
Best of Variety - B. Blue Hen
Reserve of Variety - B. Blue Pullet
Reserve of Variety - B. Splash Hen
Reserve of Variety + Reserve of Breed - B. White Hen

Boston poultry Exposition Fall Show
Reserve of Variety - B. Black Pullet
Best of Variety - B. Black Pullet
Reserve of Variety - B. Blue Hen
Best of Variety - B. Blue Pullet
Reserve of Variety, Reserve of Breed - B. White Hen