aw crud! Hate when that happens! Silkieds are just so darn delicate yet. Can't stress how badly we need to get fresh outcross in. I know everybody wants to rush to the finish line with full silkied birds but have to take the long term view. Guess this answers my question as to what varieties of silkieds you were looking for...
Chocolate/Mauve Ameraucana color project~ BeakHouse
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How does one find choc am eggs?
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Eden, I wont be breeding any chocolate to chocolate any time soon. So I wont have a chocolate rooster until the 8th or 9th generation. I believe if you breed chocolate to chocolate you're not really moving away from the chocolate orpington blood. You're either going back a generation or stayingin the same Amercuacana/Orpington when it comes to genetic percentage of each breed . I've figured out the percentages in order to achieve a pure chocolate AM with less than a 0.4% chocolate orpington blood remaining. If you're interested in a split black later this spring I can let one go. It will be 4th generation
Ahh thanks - I've been working with ChooksChicks Choc/Muve SiAms for several years now, and she had worked on them for years before that. PipsNPeeps has been woking on straight choc ams from about the same time frame. I'm wanting to pull in the more focused line of choc ams and have a pen clear of the silkied gene as well. Anyway, contacted Jean and she'll have eggs for me next month. Whoot!
I am thinking my original hen and her daughters had this "silkied" gene. I covet it. I do not have any of my originals but i found a hen last fall who has promise body shape wise. I am creating my own strain so no pure breeds here but i am focused on color and personality foremost. No aggressive or flighty ones.
I want to buy choc or split to choc silkied. Mine being ee the bad is impure but good is more gene diversity and closer to the original blood, very hardy. No inbreeding. No one is doing this in MI yet. I treat mine better than myself- not just livestock to me!
Any sellers?
I want to buy choc or split to choc silkied. Mine being ee the bad is impure but good is more gene diversity and closer to the original blood, very hardy. No inbreeding. No one is doing this in MI yet. I treat mine better than myself- not just livestock to me!
Any sellers?
Then your best bet is eggs, you have the same opportunity of luck of the draw. I won't be turning loose of any choc silkied hatched for quite awhile - I need them to progress in my own breeding pens.
Almost warm enough to ship!!
If i could *see* a silkied then i'd know what i was looking for. I tried to breed my first hen. She had a silky hair back and was short backed and broad. Wider head. Been keeping my eye on the local auction since that is where i got her; haven't seen more and it is getging scary to buy there (disease) i won't unless i have to, and with much inspecting! The girl in my trio i have my eye on has the same body type, same overful underfluff so may be a decendant from the original farm? No silk back though.
If you would show pics of what to look for?? I am doing patterns so wouldn't be of any use to you guys in the color field but might be able to get the fresh silky gene blood maybe. The daughters of my hen were overful on the underfluff but had mostly normal feathers on their backs. I am thinking both parents need to have it.
If i could *see* a silkied then i'd know what i was looking for. I tried to breed my first hen. She had a silky hair back and was short backed and broad. Wider head. Been keeping my eye on the local auction since that is where i got her; haven't seen more and it is getging scary to buy there (disease) i won't unless i have to, and with much inspecting! The girl in my trio i have my eye on has the same body type, same overful underfluff so may be a decendant from the original farm? No silk back though.
If you would show pics of what to look for?? I am doing patterns so wouldn't be of any use to you guys in the color field but might be able to get the fresh silky gene blood maybe. The daughters of my hen were overful on the underfluff but had mostly normal feathers on their backs. I am thinking both parents need to have it.
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These are silkied feathered Ameraucana - nothing to do with the breed Silkies. It's a recessive gene that both in the gene pair must be or the Ameraucana looks like any other.
Mine was not that silked, only on back. And no, i am well aware that no "silkies" were used! Since the hen i bought was grown and the auction don't give info idk on her parantage but i have seen silkie crosses and there are huge red flags. The feathers on her and her daughters were also really long, and had more than the usual down and if you looked in the sun you'd see all these little forked "hairs" sticking all over through their regular feathers.soooo soft!
That there is really something!! Many gens into the project i suppose
That there is really something!! Many gens into the project i suppose
Silkied either are or they aren't. The silkied feathering isn't isolated to one area but all over. If split they appear "normal".
The first spontaneous mutation was a pair in Texas 2008. All SiAm today are descended from that single pair. Going on 17 years.
The first spontaneous mutation was a pair in Texas 2008. All SiAm today are descended from that single pair. Going on 17 years.
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