Chickenstock fiesta yardsale August 21

[darbella]

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LOL..you are so funny! What colors did you end up with?? I have a roo that I MIGHT be looking for a couple girls for! Did I say that????? i LOVE this cochin hen i got from you, wish I had taken the mottled also. The silver sebrite with the crossbill is doing great too! The gold sebrite roo I have was trying to serenade her, but I think she has her eyes on the little serama roo I got from Kathy! LOL

ETA: not the mottled, I took that one, I meant the partridge. The feathering on those birds was so beautiful and full!

 

[muffi]

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I think you should get all blues with feathered legs, little crests (and beards if the silkie is bearded). Mottling is usually recessive, so you wouldn't see it in the first generation.

 

[darbella]

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I think you should get all blues with feathered legs, little crests (and beards if the silkie is bearded). Mottling is usually recessive, so you wouldn't see it in the first generation.

Oh, interesting. I wasnt quite sure if you would get mottled silkies. SO to get silkies, you have to breed true then?? Or is it possible to breed silkies in other breeds?

 

[keesmom]

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I think you should get all blues with feathered legs, little crests (and beards if the silkie is bearded). Mottling is usually recessive, so you wouldn't see it in the first generation.

Oh, interesting. I wasnt quite sure if you would get mottled silkies. SO to get silkies, you have to breed true then?? Or is it possible to breed silkies in other breeds?

http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html

Blues and blacks split for mottled. Like muffi said feathered legs, some 4 toed some 5, I forget if black skin is dominant or not.

 

[muffi]

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I think you should get all blues with feathered legs, little crests (and beards if the silkie is bearded). Mottling is usually recessive, so you wouldn't see it in the first generation.

Oh, interesting. I wasnt quite sure if you would get mottled silkies. SO to get silkies, you have to breed true then?? Or is it possible to breed silkies in other breeds?

From what I hear, it's very hard to see any kind of a feather-specific pattern on silkies, such as mottling or lacing, due to their silkie feather quality. To get a mottled silkie, you would have to breed the babies together and get lucky! About 1 in 16 would have both mottling and silkie feathers (though that includes splash colored ones which I suspect would be a very difficult background to see mottling on).

 

[BC_Farms]

We are going to try to make it this month...if not next month (if there is going to be one).

 

[darbella]

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Oh, interesting. I wasnt quite sure if you would get mottled silkies. SO to get silkies, you have to breed true then?? Or is it possible to breed silkies in other breeds?

http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html

Blues and blacks split for mottled. Like muffi said feathered legs, some 4 toed some 5, I forget if black skin is dominant or not.

Cindy, I get a headache looking at that chart! I feel like i need a PH-D or be a nobel prize winner or something! LOL

 

[gypsy2621]

Shay Beth ann was supposed to get me his number but I havent heard from her in a fe days.
I will give her a call but chances are he will be at the auction tuesday.
you might be able to catch him there.

 

[keesmom]

Gypsy, are there any mobile processors in MA? And is there just that one you know of in NH?

 

[gypsy2621]

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not sure about Mass but there are others in NH, up north further and rather expensive, when richie( the dog guy) calls again I will get the number for you , I will get ahold of sue and see if she will send me a copy of her buisness card.