Hen fort!
I've got all the Silkie hens in the Girls Fort these days. There are too many big hens around, and the meek, peripheral vision-challenged Silkie bantams get nervous and out-competed. So I experimented and put my only three fully adult Silkie hens in with the juveniles- the Sisters and on down. I didn't know if they would scrap or just get along.Turns out all of them just want to hang on a hay bale. Having all the fluffy ladies behind a fence is driving the roosters out of their minds, though. The 3x-as-large-as-the-hens roosters can handle themselves perfectly well and mix it up with the full size birds. Some Silkie roos outrank the big boys, and aren't beneath mating the layers. But their preferred girlfriends are locked up, and the Colonel patrols the fence all day.The Colonel. Roos look funny when they're drinking. Yang having a little post-breakfast head-under-wing nap (before she got taken inside to be a temporary pet).