California - Northern

[ronott1]

Interesting information thank you, we are still very new at this and appreciate all the info we can get. We are going to see what the IBXCL turns out like and go from there. I had no information or idea of this cross when I selected our breeds, it just turned out this way. Now I want to see where my instincts have led us.

They will be very nice and vigorous. They should hatch very nicely for you too.

I am looking forward to seeing what you get from this cross!

 

[tommysgirl]

They will be very nice and vigorous. They should hatch very nicely for you too.

I am looking forward to seeing what you get from this cross!

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[PetRock]

If you use a Blue or black AM Rooster and CL Hens, you would get Sex linked Guaranteed super blue egg layers. They would be sexlinked too. The boys would be black barred with a white spot on the head and the girls would be black.

I've been hatching black sexlinks with my Pita Pinta cockerel and my Cream Legbar & CL mix hens. I had no idea that I was doing that until all of a sudden I had all these black chicks with white head spots that were starting to develop barred feathers! The pullets are mostly black but some have some brown on their wings and some are developing crests! Love the surprises!!! Here is a pic of one of the boys:



Does this look more like a cuckoo pattern?

 

[tommysgirl]

I've been hatching black sexlinks with my Pita Pinta cockerel and my Cream Legbar & CL mix hens. I had no idea that I was doing that until all of a sudden I had all these black chicks with white head spots that were starting to develop barred feathers! The pullets are mostly black but some have some brown on their wings and some are developing crests! Love the surprises!!! Here is a pic of one of the boys:



Does this look more like a cuckoo pattern?

Yes... Cuckoo is more of a smudged bar like the CA Grey


People who breed barred breeds for show take great pains to attempt get clear lines that flow from feather to feather like on this Wy:

 

[debs_flock]

People who breed barred breeds for show take great pains to attempt get clear lines that flow from feather to feather like on this Wy:

Yup, one of my roos.

 

[chiqita]

I have a question for you      I just did a test hatch (set two tiny pullet eggs)  from my Silkies. The chicks hatched yesterday and this morning. Both appear to be partridge which was a surprise! That means they are not porcelain x porcelain or white x porcelain, so the only other explanation is they are out of my blue Silkie pullet x porcelain rooster? I didn't know that those two colors would make partridge! Dang they are cute!!! Once they dry I will take pictures to post. 

This might not be accurate genetically but I think of colors on a chicken as layers.

The base layer is the feather color ( blue black splash gray etc)
They layers on top are patterns. Pari is a pattern. I get a lot of chicks with soft pari patterns at birth that do not come out partridge as adults they just have pretty leakage or smutt.
They can have several layers of patterns I think all from different genes. And many chickens carry a partial wild type gene that will pop out partridge if both parents pass it on.

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Not this quote but at you. You can call them silkies and a sizzle. I bet you silkie is actually a smooth sizzle with zero copies of the hooking gene but that counts as silkie to me!

 

[chiqita]

I have a question for you      I just did a test hatch (set two tiny pullet eggs)  from my Silkies. The chicks hatched yesterday and this morning. Both appear to be partridge which was a surprise! That means they are not porcelain x porcelain or white x porcelain, so the only other explanation is they are out of my blue Silkie pullet x porcelain rooster? I didn't know that those two colors would make partridge! Dang they are cute!!! Once they dry I will take pictures to post. 

They could be porcelain×porcelin actually. I hear that a lot.

Ypu need to come play on the silkie sop thread we are going to be doing on fb a point a week. It should be fun. Send me a pm and ill give you the info.

 

[tommysgirl]

Yup, one of my roos.

Uhmmmm WOW!!! He is beautiful!!!!

This might not be accurate genetically but I think of colors on a chicken as layers.

The base layer is the feather color ( blue black splash gray etc)
They layers on top are patterns. Pari is a pattern. I get a lot of chicks with soft pari patterns at birth that do not come out partridge as adults they just have pretty leakage or smutt.
They can have several layers of patterns I think all from different genes. And many chickens carry a partial wild type gene that will pop out partridge if both parents pass it on.
Not this quote but at you. You can call them silkies and a sizzle. I bet you silkie is actually a smooth sizzle with zero copies of the hooking gene but that counts as silkie to me!

Thanks a ton! I had someone else tell me that crests come in all kinds of looks so now I feel comfortable in calling them PQ silkie and sizzle.

 

[Janeothejungle]

Well, the two runts survived the first 48 hours so things are looking up. We've taken to calling them "Geronimo" and "Lazarus" (we have bets on both being roosters with our luck). Geronimo was up and peeping in the small brooder this morning, Lazarus is still really lethargic and spends a lot of time laying down in between brief bouts of eating. We decided to risk the integration this morning and dumped them in with the bigger chicks. Geronimo started running around with the others immediately, Laz wandered over to the heat lamp and crashed. Cross your fingers for our two runts! Geronimo - and Lazarus (the Isbar keeps cuddling up to her, good little nursemaid).

 

[chickee]

They could be porcelain×porcelin actually. I hear that a lot.

Ypu need to come play on the silkie sop thread we are going to be doing on fb a point a week. It should be fun. Send me a pm and ill give you the info.

That should be interesting

I will look at the Silkie SOP thread.

Here are a couple of pictures of the two chicks.