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  1. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    6 weeks is too young to show, in my opinion. But she *might* do okay in the pullet class, depending on how much more mature the other pullets are. She's lovely, and I bet she'll be amazing once she fills out. Right now her back looks long and her cushion is seriously lacking, but that's just...
  2. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    To me it just looks like their feathers are in poor condition, most likely from breeding and normal scratching and milling around. When they molt, they'll grow back in nice and pretty again :)
  3. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I wouldn't breed her either, but the curled toes could be a side effect of some issue during incubation. The only way to find out if she'd throw chicks with defects is to do a test breeding.
  4. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    YW!
  5. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Yes, you'd want your rooster to be split. I believe you'd produce less blacks that way. Fancychooklady posted the breeding chart on the Silkie thread :)
  6. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I believe you'd want to breed to black, which would give you black and paint chicks (and help improve type if that needs work). If you breed paint to paint, you get black, paint and white. I think I'm remembering that correctly anyway. I saw a breeding chart for them not too long ago. I'll have...
  7. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I'd recommend going to the Where Am I? Where Are You? section of the forum, find your states thread and see if there are any breeders located near you. That's an amazing pigeon, very pretty!
  8. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Other than his feet lacking feathers, he looks pretty decent. If you breed him to hens that have more feathered legs\feet, that will be easily corrected. Good luck :)
  9. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I don't think so. When you breed Silkies to other breeds that don't have extra toes, theres a good chance the offspring will be missing toes anyway.
  10. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    He looks like a non bearded Silkie to me. I see some things that I would consider undesirable (like his small crest and the lack of feathers on his feet) but those could easily be addressed by putting him with hens that have large crests and heavily feathered legs and feet. If he's got his extra...
  11. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    She's super cute! I'm not normally a fan of the non bearded ones, but when they're right, they're SO right! Love her!
  12. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Does the chick with the head tick have a vaulted skull? It sounds like it bumped or took a well placed peck to the head and has some neurological issues. One of my roosters does the same thing. One of my hens pecked him real good on the head when he was first introduced and he's done it ever...
  13. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I'd imagine you could get some paints with blue spots, and probably a lot of off colored chicks. Since paints are still in project phase, they don't exactly breed true. I know two paints can throw paints, birds with red leakage, what some call pearl or champagne and some other colors.
  14. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    White is unpredictable. In Silkies, white basically covers up what color the bird really is (like it was painted over). What you'd get from the white would depend on what genetics its hiding :)
  15. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    You'll get a bunch of mixed color birds. Your buff and lavender could make porcelain, but since they aren't an accepted variety, they're still considered a non standard color. If your 2 splashes end up being a pair, they will make more splash.
  16. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Sorry, what are LS hens? I'm having a moment. I suppose you could get gold from white birds, depending on what genetics the white is hiding. White in Silkies is recessive, so requires to copies to present itself. Its basically as if someone painted a chicken of another color white, whatever...
  17. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    If you keep the porcelains and lavs together, you'll get porcelain and lav. I don't recommend mixing them with your other colors. Any other color you breed to lav, will be split to lav. And lav and blue can look very similar. The buff from the porcelain would likely pop out as leakage in your...
  18. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    You could put the lavs and porcelains in the same pen, or keep them separate. Whatever floats your boat :)
  19. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    Leakage isn't a good thing for showing blues and blacks. I believe they would deduct points for it, but I'm not positive since I don't show. You could still get some nice chicks though. You just have to be very selective and only keep back birds that don't have any leakage.
  20. howfunkyisurchicken

    Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

    I don't have any from her, but she's got really nice Silkies. She's a member here on BYC, I think her username is silkiehorsechick, I cant remember though :/
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