I’ve had some dark gray ones with small white spots from their Italian background, and I think they’re just so pretty! So far they’ve all been male, so I haven’t kept any, I look forward to keeping some once I’m making silver male pure celadons regularly.My babies from @Nabiki are getting almost all feathered! I am in love with the coloring on this silver celadonI love the darker charcoal Gray colors!
They silver and dark greys are my favourites too.My babies from @Nabiki are getting almost all feathered! I am in love with the coloring on this silver celadon
Oooo! She IS gorgeous! What a pretty pattern on her feathers! I love all the colors the buttons have! I am really hoping the silver one is a hen...but I will be okay with either one haha. But Silvie would make beautiful bablies with the silver celadon if it's a hen. Ahhh I can dream, right?
You are far more disciplined in your process than I am! I love them all and their pretty colors and it's SO hard to pick the ones to keep and the ones I need to let go of
I really hope she's a hen, but I will keep her regardless!
Crossing silver to silver results in 25% double silvers, some won’t develop, the ones who do, often have issues. I’ve been working on healthy doubles, and I’ve gotten good at raising them, they tend to be small, blind, and feather slowly. With a few generations, I’m getting no eye bulging and much hardier health. Since silver from SSC is dominant, you can cross it to any of your birds and get a lovely variety of silvers.Oooo! She IS gorgeous! What a pretty pattern on her feathers! I love all the colors the buttons have! I am really hoping the silver one is a hen...but I will be okay with either one haha. But Silvie would make beautiful bablies with the silver celadon if it's a hen. Ahhh I can dream, right?
That’s true! I would definitely want to avoid the issues. Maybe I should hope it’s a male so I can cross it with a bunch of my non-silver Celadons
Has anyone tried crossing the silver with the Pansy Fee? I’m curious what that might result in—just a silver dilute if the Pansy Fee pattern? Seems like it would be really pretty and I have several Pansy Fee hens now
Well I’m not really, I do need to draw the line somewhere, but then I get one like Apollo. I planned to strictly only keep blue laying hens, but Apollo is so lovely, and my husband has been working on a project similarly named, so I couldn’t part with him. He’s been living in the grow out as I sort the blue and brown layers. I plan to eventually raise his daughters, produced with celadon hens, and see if he only throws blue layers, he has a 50/50 chance of being a pure celadon. I sold the green eyed hen because she lays brown, so I thought it was a worthy enough sacrifice to justify keeping him. He is a voracious, but gentle lover, whenever I’m out there I’ll see him humping 5-6 different hens in just a few minutes haha.You are far more disciplined in your process than I am! I love them all and their pretty colors and it's SO hard to pick the ones to keep and the ones I need to let go of
No caves needed.My last two eggs hatched!
We also lost one baby overnight in the brooder -- got its head stuck in the wire framework of the little cave I made for them. Everything is wrapped in plastic wrap now, so they can't do that again. Will probably make more adjustments after work, since they keep shoving their way between the heat pad and the wire. It's like they want to die??
And since our male-to-female ratio has been soooo bad so far, and we really just want these guys for egg production for ourselves (goal is ~10-15 birds total, 2-3 groups of 5 with up to 1 male in each to allow for future hatches if we want), I ordered some eggs last night and we'll be doing one more hatch.
I’m not certain off the top of my head if pansy is dominant or recessive. If recessive, it wouldn’t show in the first gen. I’m suspecting it is not recessive though. You can certainly have pansy pattern with silver color. If only one parent is fee, it depends on whether they have 1 or 2 copies of fee. 2 copies is a more crisp white contrast, single fee lets some browns bleed thru. A single fee parent will make 1/2 the offspring single fee, a double fee parent will make all offspring single fee.That’s true! I would definitely want to avoid the issues. Maybe I should hope it’s a male so I can cross it with a bunch of my non-silver Celadons
