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    Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

    We can't help ourselves can we? LOL
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    No I haven't. It needs to be tried but I haven't liked ANY of the blacks I have hatched. MOST have pigment holes in their legs,toes or feet so that doesn't make for a very appealing BLACK silkie. Not that that should stop me from trying but I have hatched so many I have kept the BEST and the...
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    THANKS...he is holding his color pretty well so far. I am pleased with him.
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    I have not gone back and read all the posts lately BUT I started with Euro paints and crossed them to blacks. The fast turn around amazed me with the F1s taking on larger crests, better toes while keeping the darker smaller combs of the euros. I also had some paints from America and bred them to...
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    I have been doing GREAT with paints hatching and need to sell a few. If you are interested there is one I just listed on bidbird http://bidbird.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=1006903083 . If you are looking for cockerels...more mature birds, I have them too. Paints are such hardy...
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    That is EXACTLY what was told to me. LOL Don't start from scratch they said, you won't live that long.
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    You start with a white leghorn and breed back to black silkies for about 15 years. That is how it was done...NOT BY ME.
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    The summer was hard on everything on the farm EXCEPT paints. They did well and I have a lot who need to be finding new homes now. Yes...I pick mine first but all I am selling are much better than what I started with. They are a blend now of European and American. Type and quality has turned...
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    Quote: he is very lovely im not big fan of paints but if they all looked like him i would be I definately appreciate that.
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    Paint Silkies ~ European Lines

    I am bathing birds for a show tomorrow and this guy is looking very good at this POINT IN TIME. This can change overnight so I will just hold my breath. I would probably take points off for wings but otherwise he is pretty darn good....again, AT THIS POINT. any off color you...
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    Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

    Silkies in general can mature very slowly. You may or may not see waddles even ever so slightly if it is a male...I have them in all sizes. Just give it time and look for a more spiked look in his crest as it forms streamers or...wait for the egg or the CROW. Sorry I am no more help than that.
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    Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

    Quote: Nice color on the bird. I think Eleanor maybe a Elvis though. I tend to think silkies with that swept back ELVIS look in their crests are males. Time will tell.
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    Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

    Quote: well I think I say that too? You did--I think we were posting at the same time You gave much better detail than I did. This is the ONLY thing I might have down pretty good. So give me one point for that Suze and you can certainly explain the rest. LOL I still have so much to...
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    Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

    Quote: NO! well I think I say that too?
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    Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

    Quote: IF you breed lavender to blue you won't get any lavender the first crossing. All the off spring will carry one lavender gene and even though some may LOOK lavender they won't be pure. THEN you cross those with ONE gene back to a lavender again and THEN you get 50% lavender and MAYBE...
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