The American Paint Silkie

[Bat Cave Silkies]

Thank you for starting this thread Judy. Finally picked up my 3 Paints today; I was suppose to have picked them up on Judy's way home from Shawnee...but the weather didn't cooperate. The pics I'm posting are ones that Judy took for me.

I'm soooo looking forward to working with this color, and hopefully hatching out lots of little Paints in the Spring

 

[JenEric Farms]

You guys/gals are seriously killing me!

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

Jen~~we don't want to do that.....we do want to share our enthusiasm, and hopefully I can learn more from the other BYC'ers

 

[Tanichca]

I cannot believe i found a thread about my favorite variety of my favorite chicken!!!! i want some paints so bad.... maybe for next Christmas

 

[JenEric Farms]

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No they don't become washed out. Some birds have many spots and some only a few. No one knows why yet.

When they molt do they come back exactly the same?

 

[EweSheep]

Their colors reminds me alot like Blue Merle collies!

Like the blue merle colors, crossing the merle to tricolors (black, white and tan) would give the best blue merles......so it makes since for these American Paint Silkies.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Yes, when they molt they come back the same. I asked specifically about that and Judy said that hers do like mine...not really fully molt...just sort of shed continuously during certain times.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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YOU WERE THERE? How come we didn't get a chance to meet and say "Hi!"?

Suze

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I was thinking the same thing Suze!! Wish we had met.

 

[LilPeeps]

I, too found out after the fact about several people who had attended the show that I never got the chance to meet