Columbian silkies?

[Theresa sla]

my columbian rooster, was hoping for some advise on what to breed him to?

breed him to dark partridge, a few sizzle girls, and even a splash hen last year. got some very pale colored gray and partridge hens from the dark partridge, and some black sizzles with both silver and gold lacing around the neck. and blue with white (not silver or gray) lacing around his neck.
but my favorite is a pure white hen with a valted scull, black tip to her tail pom, wing tips, and feet, but no neck coloring, darn it!! so close.

 

[Theresa sla]

two of his chicks from this year both non vaulted one pale silver partridge, the other pale partridge red/cream color.

 

[Fur N Feathers]

He is a pretty boy!

Theresa, do you still have the "almost" female? I think it is OK to breed her back to him. You might improve on the color. I think the females are often marked lighter, but that is probably not as desirable.

Here are a couple of mine. It was suggested to me on the Silkies of a Different Color thread that these "might" be Columbian. 3 and 4 months olds.

And someone mentioned this might be a buff columbian???

 

[Theresa sla]

also hatched this roo out of a some cuckoo silkie eggs last year. keep him because he seemed to look just like the colombian rooster, just with a red base color instead of white. so any reason why he wouldn't be called a buff columbian?? i thought he was a partridge at first but cant find any reason why he couldn't be buff columbian?
so what do you think, could i use him in my project?
love to know what the pros think?
sorry he was scared of the camera so i couldn't get a good shot of his face, with out sending him running for the hills

 

[Theresa sla]

your birds a beautiful!! i would love to see them all grown up
yup still have the lighter columbianish girl her, a very silver pale partridge girl (also with a nicely vaulted skull), and a sizzle hen with gold lacing around her neck are in a breeding pen now with him. all of them his daughters from last year. have some eggs in the incubator now, it will be 2 and a half weeks till they hatch

so hard to do the waiting...
the buff columbian roo was breed to the white hen with the black all most columbian marking, earlier this spring and got a very solidly marked columbian chick with a light cream colored back ground color. but sadly she/he went missing when it was only a couple weeks old the troubles of a free ranging mama hens

almost feel guilty about eating their eggs till my incubator frees up

 

[Theresa sla]

Hey fur n feathers, I was wondering if you know or have the parents of the young birds in you pictures?? Just curious about where they came from??
Really hope you plan on breeding them later they look very columbian to me, nice looking birds

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Hey fur n feathers, I was wondering if you know or have the parents of the young birds in you pictures?? Just curious about where they came from??
Really hope you plan on breeding them later they look very columbian to me, nice looking birds

Yes. That first boy is 3 months old and his father is my lavender CatDance roo (you can see him in the self bue/lavender thread) and his mother is a buff hen. I read in this thread to start with a lavender and buff and you can get Columbian. I did not realize I actually had any possible Columbian until a couple of folks mentioned it in the "different color" thread. You also mate lavender and buff to get porcelain and that's what I thought I would get. Happy accident!

The next two 4 month olds have the gray dad I posted in the different color thread. I am not sure the mother of the one in the middle because the nest was shared, however I think her mother is partridge. The boy at the bottom has the same buff mother as the first boy.

 

[Theresa sla]

I've seen your lavender roo, he's amazing!!
Good to know I have some eggs in the bator from fowlrus who I found on this thread she said she didn't have Colombians any more but she had some lovely lavenders. So i convinced her to sell me some eggs from her lavender pen aswel as her partridge pen, (same pen as some of columbians had been related to). hopeing for a lavender girl for the red bird above that I think look Columbia-ish?
Looking closer at your birds above I wounder if they would be considered corination (If I have my terms right, my spelling is most likely off) and the pictures of the Columbia roosters with Baring on their tail would that be Delaware just like their counterparts in the rest of the chicken world?
Still wounder how true they breed? seems to be thats where the difficulty will be. What kind of percentage of Columbian did you get with your buff to lavender??
Super geeked about this project thank for your help!!!

 

[nicalandia]

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this rooster looks to be genetically golden(S/s+) or its sun bleached...

 

[nicalandia]

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thats correct. thats what Delawares are, Barred Columbian. except they are based on the Wheaten allele and not the eb allele. delaware chicks hatch all yellow. just like light sussex which is also a columbian based on wheaten..