Silver Pullet Poultry

Well the stock show has come and gone. As far as I know, I only have one cockerel that has not sold yet. Stock show was wonderful, aside from being sick myself, which is not unual, as I am constantly sick.

Art Reiber did a wonderful job judging the show for us this year, and I talked to him about having the Avoca, IA show host the National Siklie Breeders Association's Western National this year.

All show results are up on the Show Results page, and we did well. There were 553 birds entered in the show this year, with 107 featherlegs. One of my White SIlkie Pullets got Champion Featherleg and got Reserve Champion Bantam. Which means it will be my 1st starred win of the year with the ABA. Totalling 5 all together, if both the shows of the double show I attended in September count.

I have had questions about who's line my white silkies are of and the answer is simply- MY LINE. The original pair I started with years ago came from a well know Master Breeder. At that time, I did not hatch any as I was not interested in raising silkies. They were just pretty. About a year after I purchased them, the white female passed on after some really cold weather.. So, I looked into getting a few more. The next whites that I got came from Texas, the farm was Broke Down Ranch. I purchased a white pair or trio, I do not recall exactly, at that time. I did hatch a few birds out of that pair and ended up with a few very nice white pullets that I kept. Which brings me to last year. I had a bad time last year with a bug that came around the spring, and had the vets at CSU come out to test birds. The results came back as nothing serious, and I was told to always have Tylan on hand. I managed to keep two white females alive, barely, it was truly a miracle, one white pullet that won Grand Champion at the National Western Stock Show in 2008 and the original girl from BDR. I hatched like mad, mostly out of the 2008 grand champion winner.. I hatched out around 30 birds from that trio last year, and it was around 20 females and 10 males. After culls, I had a very nice flock of whites, with awesome potential, keeping roughly 10 females and 3 males.

I have since added a white female from Harvest Breeze Farms, 2 White Pullets from Premier Silkies and a Cockerel also from Premier Silkies. My main breeding rooster, Frosty from BDR, past away last year and he will be missed. I kept one male, the best from them. I am also seeing if the older original cock bird will breed for me this year. He never has before but what the heck. The cockerel from Premier is in a pen with many girls, crossed over to the ones that I raised form last year. I will also be introducing a cockerel next year (2010) and possible a few pullets from a friend who purchase pure Kutch lines.