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You know me, I like variety - if I had a splash hen I'd still be looking for max variety so I'd breed her to a blue. Remember Saul and the little black hen??? Chuckle - she started laying as did my blue - nine mixed breed who the heck knows eggs in the bator. Five silkie chicks growing out...

Sarah LOL, I put the little black hen in with the silkied serama boy... major chuckle... He's Red or Brown Red... of course she's not laying yet but she was getting picked on more than the others in the yard and he needed a companion. Can't just dump him out there with the others, the...

Quote: Aye - blue red and black red chicks THIS WAYYYYY - shooting for gold birchens in blue and black and what the heck maybe splash ... I can write that standard.

Pencilling is virtually impossible to see on a partridge that is light color based and silkied or frilkied. But a male partridge has a completely different color pallate even if he is a blue partridge. I bet Sonoran has pics somewhere... And total hijack and off topic SOMEBODY look at my new...

LOL I'm sitting here not 50 feet from about 14 Partridge Rock hens. You'd think I'd have clued in a LOT sooner. Sigh - some days I wonder where my brains went. I don't look at them as much now... now that I know the line went awry and I have to start again. It makes me a bit sad.

Pardon me for a duh moment . Why did I look at that pencilling and think I couldn't tell sex... Someone kick me gently... Of course it's a girl. Only girls have a pencilled breast. Duh... More proof I have not been sleeping... Forgive me - SHE is very cute. Sonoran thank you, you could...

S/he really is cute and they are totally addictive aren't they? I'm particularly fond of blue based and partridge birds so I think yours is beautiful! Totally a bird you can work with.

She looked like she was going to kick some..... Neat birds...

He/She's blue partridge. S/he's a long way from laying yet. The eggs are pretty small if you're used to med or lg eggs. Blue partridge isn't a recognized color variety in silkies or sizzles, so s/he's in the pet end of the spectrum. Next generation you're looking for a mate with blacker...

Jaynie it was the breeding of your birds that made me comfortable with shifting in a generation of silkie hens when my hatch only produced two hens and five roos. I used to love the pics of your old flock. Hugs. Best of luck with the new one! And then just onward and upward. It's also why...

If you can avoid going back to a red faced bird, do so. It's a pain to have a beautiful traited bird with a red face two or three generations later - or try to use a heavily silkie featured male, otherwise you'll get a TON of face/comb DQ'd birds. Causing much I lucked out and only got...

PBJ lol Tina could be my Aris's little sister. I'll have to get a newer pic, her "crew cut" grew out a little more and her body recently feathered in more. I kind of like the whole work in progress thing, though I really lucked out starting with fourth generation birds.

Show and breeder quality Ameraucana are indeed normal large fowl. Hatchery birds are - as you found out - Easter Eggers and often smaller. A well bred Ameraucana has a lot of heft, lays a lovely largish egg and is totally differentfrom anything a hatchery produces. There's a man near me who...

Quote: Standard Ameraucana are not 2-3lbs. They're proper large fowl at least in SQ and breeder quality birds I've met. I'd be taking one out of the breeding program that fell in a 2-3lb. range. If they were just babies then they still had growth to put on. SQ silkies often stretch the...

Quote: Don't use the birchen color bleeding boy - it will mess up any intention to breed show birds because it LOVES to keep cropping up. I know this because Sarah is still trying to get it out of her birds since crossing to Polish at one point. And though I LOVE them and am using them for a...