Silkie thread! - Page 1699

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Originally Posted by poultrycrazy 

What color is this chick? The mom is a partridge showgirl and the dad is well idk what you would call it. here is a pic of the chick and the dad.

 

 

I had one that looked just like that (maybe a little less yellow on the face) and he turned out looking like this.

There he is with mommy. Couldn't find any better pictures of him at this age, or younger.

So his father was about the same color he turned out himself, father was much whiter though. Mother was a black hen. Not sure what kind of genetics they had, all my chickens are just pets so there has been no actual breeding of colors going on.

Sorry for the overload of pictures! lol

Any of you silkie experts know the gender of these silkies?I know silkies are hard to sex but any guesses are appreciated. They turned 9 weeks old today.

1st silkie:

2nd silkie:

3rd silkie:

4th silkie:

5th silkie:

What color is that first one called? It's gorgeous whatever it is (:

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Originally Posted by Lady Chickadee 

Any of you silkie experts know the gender of these silkies?I know silkies are hard to sex but any guesses are appreciated. They turned 9 weeks old today.

 

1st silkie:

 

 

2nd silkie:

 

 

3rd silkie:

 

 

4th silkie:

 

 

5th silkie:

 

I am no expert but my guess is 1st pullet 2nd roo 3rd ? 4th pullet 5th roo.

Ive hatched out almost 100 silkies so far this year. Here are some pictures for all to see. I would love some feedback on some colors, if anyone would help me. Now some I know, buff, black, white and blue. Ive got those. I do have some that I am playing a guessing game. So if anyone wants to jump in, PLEASE DO!!

Little buff with a white saddle? Color please!!

This little one is called Elvis, Color please!!

These are my first batch of paints. I'm in love!!  

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Originally Posted by beauty2thebirds 

Ive hatched out almost 100 silkies so far this year. Here are some pictures for all to see. I would love some feedback on some colors, if anyone would help me. Now some I know, buff, black, white and blue. Ive got those. I do have some that I am playing a guessing game. So if anyone wants to jump in, PLEASE DO!!

 

 

 

 

Little buff with a white saddle? Color please!!

 

 

 

This little one is called Elvis, Color please!!

 

 

 

These are my first batch of paints. I'm in love!!  

Buff with white saddle, likely buff or white. You should be able to tell when the wing feathers come in. Elvis is partridge (what a cutie!). Love those paints!!!

They are all so pretty. I just got 4 chicks. One has a bigger bump of feathers on  his head. Does that mean hes a roo. Any tips in raising too are greatly appreciated.

I got a nice shot of most of my silkie crew, lots of blues and blacks with a few odd balls in there.

I just love this pic, looks like the silkies are talking to my top hen on the other side of the fence.

 

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Originally Posted by BarnGoddess01 

 

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye95 

 

 

OKay, so this chick is 11 days old now.  I don't know what I'm going to do with it.  It hatched out with the end part of the outside toes missing on BOTH sides.  It's like the last little knuckle just isn't there.  What's the deal with toes?  Does this get genetically passed on, or could this be incubation?  My broody hatched this one-- BUT there was a couple of days that she kicked this egg out (I know, because I marked it because I didn't think it would hatch after that) of the nest and it got really cool.  I don't know why she did that.  My parent birds dont have any missing toes, but since I didn't raise them, I have no idea what is in their background.  Ideas??  I'll be hatching out more from this same couple in a few more days, so I guess I'll see if those chicks also have issues or not with their toes.  If they do, I guess I have a pretty big problem.  I sure hope this is a fluke!

 

It's a genetic "defect" called "brachydactyly" (By is the gene) that is often paired with the genes for feathered legs. It is autosomal dominant. Basically, heavy leg feathering interferes with the development of the outer toe. (It is a BIG issue with Marans, for example, a breed I work with. I have experience with the short outside toes with them.) Do your parent birds perhaps have short outside toes, perhaps even with nails, but not SO short?

http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/mutations2.html#gen_mut_toes

Okay, so I just read it and it is making more sense.  Obviously, this is a genetic defect and NOT an incubation issue.  Well, that is unfortunate.  This part here:  "So some researchers believe the Brachydactyly trait is not a separate gene, but one of the ptilopody genes."

This means that the shortened toe (or regular toes) AND the feather leg gene go hand in hand and aren't separate?  So in which case, any paring of birds may produce this shortened toe??  Is that what it means?  I'm trying to get a good grasp of what I read.  I did check my birds last night and I'm still not seeing an obvious short toe on either of them... but I think I'll post a picture later on after church to see what you all think.  Perhaps I'm just not seeing it.

Sonoran-- is this a problem that you deal with too??  Or have you got it worked out that you don't see it?  Just curious how common this problem is?

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Originally Posted by TheRookie 

What color is that first one called? It's gorgeous whatever it is (:

 

 

She/he is buff. I wasn't going to breed buffs but she/he is so cute so I decided to keep it.