My favorite backyard chicken breed is bantam Cochin, but Silkie might be a close second. Penguin along with three other hens at my friend’s house, went broody all at once last summer. We drove out to Wes’s Pets and Feed in El Monte where she bought some fertile silkies eggs for the ladies to sit on. Almost all of them hatched. After that, Penguin came back to live with us, and we let her bring two little chicks with her.... Read More Read More