Interesting.@Ponypoor ~ some more trivia ~ talking about dark feathers around the eyes of Silkie chicks in addition to their black skin, legs/toes, beaks, eyeballs ~ the feathers found around the eyes of the chick are always dark feathers (the pure white chicks seem the exception?). Here's our dark partridge chick w/light gray face. She shows dark feathers around the eyeballs of her little gray chickie face. (The face/head turned completely black later.)
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There are blue/gold partridge, buff/blue partridge, dark partridge, silver partridge, Moorhead partridge, & probably red partridge by now too! Why partridge Silkies have so many chick feather color variations is a mystery to me as our dark chick turned almost completely black w/a very very faint gold collar and speckled gold wing tips ~ guess that's why she was a "dark" partridge cuz the gold accents were faint.
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All our Silkies have been partridge & one was not partridge ~ she was an all-black Silkie. We have a blue Silkie now but it's like having a partridge only there's no gold undertones in a blue Silkie so technically not a partridge.
I really should read more on genetics but then I've never had interest in technical sciency studies!
How are your Silkies looking now?
Such a cutie pie
Oh yes frizzle - that is a type of feather. In order to show frizzle feathers the bird needs to have a copy of the frizzle gene. It is dominant, so one will have a 50% chance of getting a frizzle when you cross a frizzle on a normal feathered bird.
the people that I was to meet at the airport are doing something else tomorrow. I don’t want to get a cab or Uber, then rent a car just for one day. It’s not worth the hassle.
Wow they sure are getting big aren’t they
they grow up soooo fast.
Oh no! Does he have heart worm?!
oh I laugh now but I was a wee bit worried at the time. But he was way too wild to handle frequently to treat.
