Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

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Oh TY! That's very handy info that will make my life a lot easier this breeding season.
 
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I don't sell hatching eggs but as someone that has spent $10-15k on eggs, chicks & birds this year (mostly donated to 4-H groups and local youth), I'm extremely grateful to those wonderful breeders that do.
 
This last hatch, last week were silkie eggs, cochin eggs and polish eggs. I got a gorgeous paint Polish. I didn't do it! It wasn't my egg, it was given to me because the lady only had one. But he/she is just beautiful. Now I need a name for him/her. I never seen a chick that color of any breed. However, I did come across one the other day in BYC. Not a polish, but still gorgeous.
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I love your paint sikies. Those little ones are beautiful.
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This last hatch, last week were silkie eggs, cochin eggs and polish eggs. I got a gorgeous paint Polish. I didn't do it! It wasn't my egg, it was given to me because the lady only had one. But he/she is just beautiful. Now I need a name for him/her. I never seen a chick that color of any breed. However, I did come across one the other day in BYC. Not a polish, but still gorgeous.
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I love your paint sikies. Those little ones are beautiful.
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Do you have any pics of the polish?​
 
I am not real sure how this site works so any of you who are better at this feel free to move this to a spot where silkies lovers can find it. The long await books written Sigrid are here and we are offering them for sale. If you are a member of ASBC then you can go to the site and SEE the book.
Absolutely no profit is being make by the club. We are trying to just get the books out to silkie folks. They are a WONDERFUL source of information. I have need seen any book with so much information about one single breed of bird.


The BOOKS are HERE!
I picked up the books yesterday at the post office and we have 17 to sell. They are beautiful and the packaging is great, so all I will have to do is put a label and postage on them. They can ship by media mail for $4.50, so the total cost with shipping will be $99.50. Sigrid's paypal address is [email protected]

Make sure that your mailing address is included in the paypal payment,
as Sigrid will be forwarding the paypal receipts to me so I can ship the
books. I know that this first shipment will sell out quickly, but Sig will ship some more, and we also plan to have some printed here in the US, and that will help a lot. The next shipment won't take nearly so long, because we won't be dealing with all those holidays!


Isn't it beautiful? Oh by the way......ALL the books in this shipment are autographed by Sigrid!!!
 
Thanks...this is just the beginning and I HOPE we can work things out.
 
Looking like I am going to have a lot of culls pretty soon. I am talking better quality than what I started with but not GREAT at all. I do have a few of the American lines that may have to go too. Mainly we are going to have to hatch and cull until we can see some consistent color. When I think on it I don't keep many buffs either...hatch and cull for the best color and type. At least the paints are showing better consistent type it is just this dirty white, dun, Kaki color that needs to go. It may boil down to being like the buffs which are still a pretty hard color to get consistently clear.

I am cleaning the hatchin hut right now and may have time to take some updated pictures to share. One thing about this variety compared to lavender, they are easy to hatch, mature very fast and are very hardy. I still find my lavender chicks more delicate for the first week or so. These paints nearly ALL hatch out beautifully.

Five years, five breeders consistenly breeding to find a consistent standard. That is the goal set before us.
 
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Bren---you know I'm no genetics expert, but there's something I've noticed about the Paints (American..but I happened to be here). My Paints all have dark skin, dark feet, and the taupe color shows in the hackles of my male, but not the females; Judy's Paints have white in their feet but no taupe color in the hackles of the male. Do you think there may be a correlation? Maybe Sigi would know??
 
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BUT that isn't true with all breeding of Judy's paints. Deb is breeding only those lines and she is getting the whole deal...holes in the pigment in feet, off color in hackles of both sexes...holes in eye pigment. On the other hand I only have bred chicks from the European lines and seeing EXACTLY the same thing. We don't find any reason for either. She and I both are breeding paint males to blacks...paint females to blacks. So far we can't see any pattern to this. F1 is a bit early to expect to have concrete answers and we sure DON'T. The results from what the two of us are doing is nearly EXACTLY the same with European and American lines.

Rereading...what lines do you have?
 
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