Gray Silkies question - PICTURES

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I am not on that site but have been wanting to discuss silver partridge & gray.

My silver partridge are NOT coming out gray as the standard dictates.

I have been working on SP for about a year....I need more of the silver where the gold/red is on the breast of the regular partridge.

I have worked on grays too, for a couple of years and those look more like what I see here, not like my SPs. Those were killed by a dog though.

I do have one partridge in that pen that came out with some red instead of silver. One pullet.

IDK how that happened!

One of my main roosters (he is the oldest) is dark with the most silver in his hackles. Working on hatching from that pen, seems like at least one girl is a blue partridge in there, instead of a silver partridge. Although she does have silver, with more of a bluish underfluff


I am trying to figure out what is what and what I am producing from these birds. The first baby I hatched this year was NOT partridge chick at all.

photos?

It is possible to have a grey with blue (no name for the variety that I know of; silver blue is already taken (blue birchen))

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Silver is dominant, not recessive. Gold is the recessive allele.

Hmm then I have no clue how I got the grays then. I learn something new everyday! Thankyou for the correction Sonoran.

Males can be split for silver & gold; the split is actually called golden, lol. Anyways, a golden will give silver to about half his daughters and silver to the other hald. Ditto with his sons.

Anyways, in a golden partridge, the red/gold would look kind of washed out or yellowish.

 

[geosheets]

what would you call a brown pencilled bird? This one popped up out of my grays... not sure what to breed her back to though...

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I am not on that site but have been wanting to discuss silver partridge & gray.

My silver partridge are NOT coming out gray as the standard dictates.

I have been working on SP for about a year....I need more of the silver where the gold/red is on the breast of the regular partridge.

I have worked on grays too, for a couple of years and those look more like what I see here, not like my SPs. Those were killed by a dog though.

I do have one partridge in that pen that came out with some red instead of silver. One pullet.

IDK how that happened!

One of my main roosters (he is the oldest) is dark with the most silver in his hackles. Working on hatching from that pen, seems like at least one girl is a blue partridge in there, instead of a silver partridge. Although she does have silver, with more of a bluish underfluff


I am trying to figure out what is what and what I am producing from these birds. The first baby I hatched this year was NOT partridge chick at all.

photos?

It is possible to have a grey with blue (no name for the variety that I know of; silver blue is already taken (blue birchen))

Those I have...... somewhere

I just joined the ASBC

please keep in mind these are a work in progress for me

He is now a year old. Or will be later this month. No recent pics though.

here is the one pullet with red

Main roo at days old

The main roo at 3-4 months

Main roo at 7-8 months looking ratty from free ranging after a rain
he is the one on the right
He as improved alot with holding his wings and such since just a couple of months ago!

And I need to get pics of the silver & blue. I think it is blue. It is a lighter undercolor than the main roo above

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Now that I look at Dali, his undercolor is light too......

 

[Elite Silkies]

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They look to be grey--but the photos appear to be black & white, not colour

I cannot find the adaptor thingy that downloads photos from the camera to the confuser (computer), ot I would post some pix of my greys, but the ones you have look pretty similar in colouring to mine. Here is an old photo of my original grey girl:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/20590_imgp1341.jpg

LOL, I had to go back and look at them, they do look black and white

They are colored pics though, I promise. Mine looks a lot like yours, so I'll call her gray. Thanks for the help

 

[swheat]

Some pic of my grays. I need to take some more up-dated pics.

 

[PamB]

Does anyone know how I would breed to get more of this pattern (black head/gray body)?

 

[jen5680]

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I sure don't no but I love her!!

 

[ShysCreations]

PamB--that little black headed one is sure cute! Little Gracie, a pullet, arrived from a blue partridge hen and a lavendar rooster.