Buff Silkie Thread!

[Muzzie]

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Name dropping only because I can't take credit for the breeding of these birds I just hatched the eggs.

 

[kfchickenlady]

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Name dropping only because I can't take credit for the breeding of these birds I just hatched the eggs.

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on the pic, I say pullet. But I wont bet money on it!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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I would like to know the answer to this as well as what about missing toes? If a pullet is super in every other way, is she worth breeding with only 4 toes on each foot?

I started breeding buffs in 2008. In 2009 I culled hard for smut, 2010 I culled hard for eye color, this year I had few with light eyes compared to what I had the first and second years.

As far as missing toes, toes are easy to cull for since you can tell when they hatch if they have the correct # or not. But if you use a bird with 4 toes, you'll get some with 4 toes and some with 5 toes, but all the offspring will carry the gene for 4 toes. At least that's how I understand it.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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I'll guess male just because in the 2nd picture the comb looks wide.

 

[The Accidental Coop]

Not show quality but we think she is precious!

 

[peepblessed]

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I'll guess male just because in the 2nd picture the comb looks wide.

Thanks, I just keep going back and forth!

 

[chickendales]

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very cute

 

[shelleyb1969]

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he's a nice looking boy, chickendales. choosing which roos to keep from that hatch has been incredibly tough for me...they're all nice looking boys. but isn't it funny how you can have a whole group of pretty much identical birds, and still there are some that you just like better? they just stand out more from the rest?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I would like to know the answer to this as well as what about missing toes? If a pullet is super in every other way, is she worth breeding with only 4 toes on each foot?

I started breeding buffs in 2008. In 2009 I culled hard for smut, 2010 I culled hard for eye color, this year I had few with light eyes compared to what I had the first and second years.

As far as missing toes, toes are easy to cull for since you can tell when they hatch if they have the correct # or not. But if you use a bird with 4 toes, you'll get some with 4 toes and some with 5 toes, but all the offspring will carry the gene for 4 toes. At least that's how I understand it.

Believe it or not, incubation temperatures can turn a pure polydactyly embryo into an 8 toed (4 per foot) chick, that will pass the polydactyly gene to all its offspring.

 

[kfchickenlady]

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I'll guess male just because in the 2nd picture the comb looks wide.

Thanks, I just keep going back and forth!

really, Sundown is probably right, has looked at a LOT more of these than i have