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Trio of splashes from Chooks chicks Ch/Mauv S. Am project. (Along with a trio of her Maran's)




And just hatched this weekend...... not enough color to tell what the splashes are splashes of and of course can't tell if any of these will be silkied until they feather out .... but it's a start! Thank you Renee! Check out those freaky "eyebrows" on the dark one!


 
Trio of splashes from Chooks chicks Ch/Mauv S. Am project. (Along with a trio of her Maran's)




And just hatched this weekend...... not enough color to tell what the splashes are splashes of and of course can't tell if any of these will be silkied until they feather out .... but it's a start! Thank you Renee! Check out those freaky "eyebrows" on the dark one!


 
Supermom - did you not realize that mauve is just chocolate with the blue coming thru?
They would have turned out milk chocolately and been able to pass the chocolate genes.
Had one also been a silkied roo, him you could have taken to the black girls and been that much further ahead.

I'd take the choc boy to his hatchmate and any other silkied hens you have first myself. If you get silkieds the boy is carrying incomplete silkied. Otherwise, you won't know if he is passing, or even has it to pass, the silkied recessive genes through the other girls.

As it is, even if he carries a single gene for silkied only a quarter of his offspring with those black girls will have it. You need to take a silkied chocolate roo from the choc silkied/choc breeding to the black girls to make sure they are carrying both recessives. Breed these offspring back to thier father to get choc/silkieds.

Make sense?
 
I'm back, everyone, but it's ugly.

I'm positing a message I'll be putting on other threads, too- it's really hard to post this, but I'm just stretched toooooo thin, and it has to happen for a bit. I'll be keeping my favorite hens in my backyard, but the breeding projects have to go.

It's tough, but temporary.

My job has whipped me up and down the block for the last year or so, and that's in addition to having relatives here, being a caregiver, and home-schooling teen daughters. I'm strung out.

I have to liquidate. I've said it before, but this is really it. I have to get rid of everything that isn't legal within city limits, because the farm outside town at which I have my breeding facility is also closing down. I have a deadline now.

So: I'm listing in BYC threads initially because so many of you are like-minded and I'd love some of my projects to go on...I'd like to get back into them eventually! I mean, these kids will be going off to college, and perhaps someday I'll have my own farm! Having a farm on someone else's property kinda stinks, really...I'd like to be able to go outside to care for all of my birds...not have to get in the car!

Anyway...

I have a flock of banty Cochins, which were moving toward Chocolate. I have a Blue hen, a Mottled trio, a Chocolate pullet, three black cockerels split to Chocolate, and a Black trio.

I have a flock of d'Uccles that were moving toward Chocolate: 5 Chocolate pullets, a split cockerel, a Black Copper roo, a 6 pack of Isabel chicks and lots of Black and Chocolate chicks. This is sex-linked Choc and I'm 2 generations in. They are still too round but look like d'Uccles.

I have a flock of Marans: a trio of FBCM, 2 Chocolate Copper pullets, a Black roo, a Blue hen, a Splash hen...and tons of chicks, many of them split to or fully Chocolate.

I have a flock of Silkies: 3 Black hens, a Blue roo, a Splash hen, and a White hen. Tons of varied chicks.

The Konzas. Here my heart breaks. I have 5 roos and 10 pullets and a bunch of chicks. They are magnificent. I may just try to keep them locally somewhere if someone around here will foster the project for a bit. They are everything I wanted them to be.

I have a Chocolate Rock project, but need to inventory them...

I also have a trio of Bourbon Reds, a pair of Royal Palms, and 4 or 6 poults of varied lineage.

*sigh*

Message me if you're interested. I will ship.

Here's the pertinent part I haven't put on other threads: I have a bunch of Silkied Amers I'm parting with. There are a Blue roo, 4 or 5 Blue pullets, and a Blue Wheaten pullet. These are all SPLITS. The Blue roo is Split to sex-linked Chocolate. I also have a zillion chicks I'd held onto, who are split or worth breeding to...and I'll even part with the Mauves.

I have to.

Message me.

 
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OK, a sucky setback but you'll feel better once u can catch your breath again.
Besides, there's many
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over your gorgeous birds.
Surely willing to set you back up with your stock when things mellow out and you can pick up again.
Count me in!
 

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