My husband, Bill, and I have been married for 16 years. We have 4 children and 9 grandchildren and one on the way! We share the love of the outdoors whether it is fishing or hunting or just sitting on the back porch watching our own animals. We love to fish either inshore or offshore. We have some great stories of fish that have been caught at our place in Suwannee, Florida. It is where the Suwannee river and the gulf meet, so we have the best of fresh or saltwwater fishing. We switch gears when the weather gets cold and deer hunt. We have some beautiful trophies!  We want our grandchildren to share our love for the outdoors and our chickens are a way to do that. They can learn so much from watching eggs hatch,knowing how to feed them, to showing them at the county fairs. Seeing their faces when they get a blue ribbon is priceless! Our main focus in our lives is our family. Our children have grown into wonderful adults with their own children and it is wonderful to see them as parents. It is our love for our children and grandchildren that is most important to us at this time in our lives As for Bill & I, we love being "Nana & Papa", and enjoy every minute that we have together! It is important to us that our grandchildren can appreciate the outdoors as we do. We try to keep them involved in all our outdoor activities.

    Our main flock is bearded Silkies. I raise and exhibit White, Splash, Black & Blue. They have stolen my heart!! My breeding program includes my own line now. I started with Silkies from Master Breeders. My goal was to reproduce birds that conform to the Standard of Perfection. My husband alway says that he wishes that he was of my silkies because of all of the attention they get!  LOL! He has been wonderful through the whole process!!! He has built me a great "Condo" for my hobby and just shakes his head at laughs at showtime watching me bathe & blowdry the Silkies!!

We also have 4 varieties of Old English bantams including Splash, Black, Blue and Blue Wheaton who have all been show placers. I have Mille Fleur d'Uccle also with one of my hens placing BB at a 2010 show out of 29. Bill has his birds too! He raises Bobwhite and Coturnix Quail....There is alot going on at the farm!!!! 

Contact me @  sunshinesilkies@hotmail.com