Buff / Lavender Mix creating Blue Cuckoo Silkie? Updated photos.

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

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I spoke with Ryanne (ASBC Sec) and she told me that the buff gene tends to carry a lot of different other genes. She said thats how I likely got a cuckoo out of the buff/lavender mixed birds.

Cuckoo is another word for barred. Take for example, Barred rocks.

Typicly when you put lavender in a buff line, its to get the black in the buff bird diluted.

 

[sonew123]

Thank you-I understand a tad more now!!

 

[ronnie]

boy are they beautiful............

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

Thanks

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Barring can't exactly hide (except under recessive white) as it's incompletely dominant, but buff barring would tend to not be very apparent, and silkie feathering would make it even less obvious.

Can you check and see if it actually has several white stripes on each feather, not just at the tip? If it's only at the tip you may have a mottled bird--something I've been trying to create for the last year and a half

A few other people are working on it as well.


Sonew, there are a number of variations of barring. In general, when a bird is referred to as barred, the bars are very crisp--as if drawn with a pen using a straight-edge. When the term cuckoo is used the bars are very fuzzy, as if drawn freehand with a crayon.

Genetically the difference is that barred birds carry the slow-feathering gene whereas cuckoo birds carry the fast feathering gene. With silkie feathering either would look cuckoo.


Lavender dilutes both red and black pigment, not just the black.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

Yeah hun I will go look at the bird better and see if it goes through out the whole feather. I will take a pic too in case there's something Im not seeing that you might notice better then me

 

[Shared Acres]

Love how they lay for you!

CUTE!

Really like the buff.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

Ok I was gonna get a feather. lol I cant seem to figure out where one begins and one ends. I try to pluck one of the new feathers coming in but they are still in the straw like things. I dont think plucking one would be that smart right now. Some of the feathers are different then the others. Some seem cuckoo, with the markings all the way down. But others only have it on the tips. Varies depending on different parts of the bird. Like the ones around the front of the neck. They are mostly light colored feathers, showing very little pattern.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

He seems too little to pluck a feather--right now he's going to great effort to grow them. As they come in more you should be able to see whether they are barred or not. I'll try to take some photos of my babies (roughly the same age) that are cuckoo. But first my son is demanding food. Teenagers

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

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lol sounds like a good idea. I'm going to send you a PM XP

My toddler was hungry, she made me cook her some eggs.