breeding with Showgirl Silkies

[caseebeths]

I breed regular Silkies and have a seperate pen for Showgirls. If I add a few showgirls to my regular Silkie pen will they cause my show quality chicks start have less feathering when I breed with them. My bowties will produce 50% regular Silkies and 50%showgirls when bred to a regular Silkie. So my question is the regular Silkie chicks I get from them I do not want to loose feathering or fullness. Anyone know much about this?

 

[Yellow House Farm]

I breed regular Silkies and have a seperate pen for Showgirls. If I add a few showgirls to my regular Silkie pen will they cause my show quality chicks start have less feathering when I breed with them. My bowties will produce 50% regular Silkies and 50%showgirls when bred to a regular Silkie. So my question is the regular Silkie chicks I get from them I do not want to loose feathering or fullness. Anyone know much about this?

Greetings! Insofar as this is a section for APA/ABA focused conversation, the correct name for "showgirls" is Naked Neck Silkies.

I do not have much experience in breeding Naked Neck birds, I understand the genetics. They are much on the color blue. If the Naked Neck gene does to full feathered birds what the Blue gene does to Blacks, you want to avoid it. Pulling Blacks from Blues tends to lead to a mat, inferior black. Genes lying beneath often become symptomatic. I wouldn't want Naked Neck genes underneath non-Naked Neck birds.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I don;t breed showgirls, but have never heard any of the breeders who do say that it is an issue. They do prefer to breed their showgirls to silkies, because breeding only to showgirls does tend to cause feather loss in subsequent generations.

 

[Rocky_Road_Poultry]

I have a blue silkie and a Patridge "showgirl" roo, he looks horrible, but its who she bred with. She has 5 chicks, 2 of them are black and the rest are blue. 3 are naked necks and the other 2 have feathered necks. Since their so young im not sure how well they are feathered, but I think depending on your showgirl, it will decrease the amount of fluff.