Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Nope, frizzled silkies are just that, what you are calling satin frizzles. To my knowledge technically the "silkied" feathers do not "frizzle".

My brain goes in odd directions sometime. Did I just start another rabbit trail in chicken genes?

 

[Ponypoor]

I've been watching the weather and praying this would miss us. Newest predictions and sadly we are not going to avoid this mess.

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hmmm well 4” of snow no biggie but the 3/4” of ice is extremely worrisome.

Do you have a generator? Ugh hate ice more than snow. Be very careful please.

I know I whine about the weather here and the snow, but we are used to getting lots of it and have a lot of equipment to deal with it. Please be very careful anyone down south there, don’t drive it you don’t need to. Please be careful.

Ok I still need to tromp through my snow to the barn, looks like my smart older ladies have all roosted properly, need to go move the youngsters into the Hen House as usual.

And feed the horses and see what on earth Reenie has done to her stall door and the manure rake and broom…. That horse….

 

[Ponypoor]

My brain goes in odd directions sometime. Did I just start another rabbit trail in chicken genes?

I am having issues with copy/pasting a link but I have come across a video showing just this - a true silkie/frizzle and also a satin/frizzle.

And guess what - it would seem that yes Clyde is likely indeed a frizzle, no wonder he is freezing his wee butt off today! Ok so never hatch eggs from him and Curly or Betty.

Oh there it pasted - this is the video

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I am having issues with copy/pasting a link but I have come across a video showing just this - a true silkie/frizzle and also a satin/frizzle.

And guess what - it would seem that yes Clyde is likely indeed a frizzle, no wonder he is freezing his wee butt off today! Ok so never hatch eggs from him and Curly or Betty.

Oh there it pasted - this is the video

I stand corrected. Yes indeed Clyde is a frizzled silkie which I was under the impression was not possible. That also means 100% Curly is his momma then. Frizzles are so pretty and I secretly want one. The genetic dangers though of breeding two together I am so thankful I do not have them.

That being said, Clyde could sneak and hop a ride down to Kentucky and I would not turn him down.

Actually, better yet, sneak Teddy the Terrible down to me. He might be "terrible" but I still liked that little devil from afar.

 

[rural mouse]

I stand corrected. Yes indeed Clyde is a frizzled silkie which I was under the impression was not possible. That also means 100% Curly is his momma then. Frizzles are so pretty and I secretly want one. The genetic dangers though of breeding two together I am so thankful I do not have them.

That being said, Clyde could sneak and hop a ride down to Kentucky and I would not turn him down.

Actually, better yet, sneak Teddy the Terrible down to me. He might be "terrible" but I still liked that little devil from afar.

I think it also means (?) That Curly carries 1 copy of the silkied feather gene...? Betty carries 1 copy (gotten from Teddy) and the frizzled feathers, while Clyde got the silkied feather from both (recessive so has to have 2 copies to show?) And the frizzled (dominate) from mama Curly?

(On genetic turf I'm lots more shaky 1. No silkies, 2. No frizzles im my lot)

 

[rural mouse]

@Ponypoor only reason I asked about the frizzle is Clyde is a spitting image of Teddy....but like Marv in Home Alone....before electrocution (Teddy) ....and after electrocution...(Clyde)

https://gifdb.com/gif/marv-murchins-electrocuted-in-home-alone-6qvgkfl970eoh4xq.html

 

[SimpleJenn]

@Ponypoor
I love seeing the horsey antics

 

[Sylvester017]

Both partridges are pullets. They have the warmer tan coloring of a pullet/hen. I did question one of them at 4ish months old for a bit. By 5 to 6 months if it were a cockerel the vibrant red feathers would have appeared in their latest juvenile molt. I had a partridge roo before called Ezzie. Those red feathers popped in clear as day around 5 months. Only 2 of the silkies are currently as big as their momma Poppet so there is still time for some growing. Branch was also bigger then Poppet so it is not surprising a few are bigger then the rest.

One of your Dark Partridges, w/gold faint collar looks a bit bigger than the others ~ looks a lot like our Dark Partridge with a faint gold collar & gold speckled wing tips ~ as best as I could tell from video darting about. Silkies just never stay still, do they?

Our Dark Partridge ~ Mika ~ girl. She is so dark she looks all black until the light hits her gold collar & wing tips just right. She has gold feathers but the black overtakes most of her body.

At about 4-1/2 months a lot of her black feathers covered her gold collar. She had the strangest little white feather at the base of her tail which is no longer there.

She fooled us at the beginning that she was all black until the gold Partridge traits showed up later.

Mika far left front w/faint gold collar line. The black feathers cover a lot of her gold collar. Once I have 2 arms to take decent closeups I'll post more pics. DH tries but he's not the best photographer ~ I'm only marginally better but not till this arm heals!

Mika is also a bigger Silkie than the blue Silkie or the Moorhead Partridge Silkie ~ she has a wider body & leg stance. Her black feathers are very deep black.

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm going by what I once read on the "Silkies are simply spectacular" thread on here long ago.

Frizzle is a dominate gene so to speak.

My understanding is if you have a silkied parent and a frizzled parent. If they pass on the frizzled gene they are a frizzle and no silkied feathers expressed. If they do not pass on that copy of frizzle they are silkied. Clyde is not frizzled so he does not have a copy of the gene. If he did he would look like Curly and Betty.

Clyde just has a wild manly silkied hair do.

Wild manly Silkied hairdo….

Like this??

 

[Sylvester017]

It just struck me....Curly and Betty are both satin frizzles. Is Clyde silky frizzled? I'm not quite sure what a frizzled silkied feathers do, but maybe why he's so "untidy" compared to his Dada?

Clyde & Teddi do have some cute untidy traits but I know nothing about Frizzled Silkies, Satins, or Polkies. Never had 'em. Never raised male Silkies either. The one standard Silkie cockerel we had we rehomed so I never saw him reach adulthood Sweet little stinker but he wouldn't stop crowing! He was beginning to grow the most beautiful plumage when we gave him up.