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7/22/12 at 2:24pm

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Here is another. I no longer own this bird but the photo is mine;-)

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7/22/12 at 2:37pm

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Yay more pics! And no - seven weeks is a longggg time I bet you are going stir crazy!

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7/22/12 at 4:17pm

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Peep your chicks are going to look So different! I'm sure you'll be really happy to get back out there with them .

ChisNchickens thank you for posting these. I do learn so much from studying pictures and having points illustrated.

This picture the first thing I notice is the nice tight wing set, where as earlier this year (<--- which is only as long as I've had Silkies, BTW, I am NOT an expert by any stretch) I wouldn't have even looked at wings.

Is she a Grey? I'm really beginning to like this color but it's "new" to me and I don't fully get it yet.

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7/22/12 at 4:31pm

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Here is another. I no longer own this bird but the photo is mine;-)

How old? Hard for me to evaluate without knowing. It looks like silver partridge, which I love the color, but my understanding is that penciling is desirable in gray. Right? Why couldn't there just be a color called silver partridge?

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7/23/12 at 4:38am

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Forgot, sorry. Around six months. Also, I was only thinking about body conformation as opposed to color which brings in another element, of which I am pretty ignorant. I love my whites. She is a gray, that much I do know but as far as correct coloring and pencilling, I'm not much help. She ended up being a fairly typey bird, although I would like to see a bigger crest to balance her better.

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7/23/12 at 7:44am

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Yes, she has really nice type. I would like to see her wing a little tighter just to be picky. :) I love the fluff on her back and don't even know what to call that. Of course you mentioned her need for more crest.

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