Rural Gardening: red faced silkie, 0 by smedgekles

smedgekles wrote:
Yes, Birchen is a breed of Cochin bantam. This pic is of our Birchen Roo and his 3 Birchen hens.

kassy I'm not sure how they would fair in Wisconsin. They do have a lot of plumage. Silkies have the fluffy almost hair like feathers that are very soft and Cochins have lots and lots of feather plumage that is very soft as well. They also have feathered feet. They are small size birds. We don't have a Silkie roo and our Silkies were with a Birchen roo (have 2 of those) so we ended up with Silkie Birchens. Interesting the traits they pick up from the different breeds. All 3 have 5 toes like a Silkie, they all have both Silkie and Birchen feathers and they have the markings of Birchens. One roo looks more Silkie (the other picture I posted) the other looks more Birchen Cochin.