genetics ? of seramas

[soap&eggs]

hi. i have a very nice flock ((25)) of adult seramas. also a pen of 50+ of janurary of this yrs hatching. i started with a trio of chicks maybe 5-6 yrs ago. since then ive kept hen chicks & few roosters from hatchings. i have not bought in any new seramas ,, no new blood lines...

last yr. i had several that hatched with some skimppy leg feathering..also several with silkie feathering. this yr ..i have a few silkie looking seramas and a very pretty looks to be a white mille fleur markings roo with leg feathering.

question is with a locked flock, with in breeding is this the result? should i have not been in breeding ? and look for a new rooster (s) ??

i do have 2 little hens that i feel maybe carrying the silkie type genes..both have a gray- green -slate colored legs..one has blue ear lobes. both hens are from second & third yr chicks.

i was under the impression that the mille fleurs used were the OE mille fleurs , legs are not feathered, in orginal breeding . none of my flock has the mille fleur color pattern other then this one.
any advice would be appreciated..thank you.

 

[GotGame]

the silkied gene and the leg feathering is something that just crops up in seramas occasionally, apparently it was in yours, and when you linebreed, you are intensifying the good genes as well as the bad ones, causing both to show up stronger and more often. But that is the best way to determine how strong your line of birds is and what faults if any they have. Many like the silkied seramas, my wife included, and the feather legged or 'booted' seem to be catching on as well...so yes I would say it is a result of inbreeding/linebreeding, but if it is something you dont want, just dont use the birds showing those undesirable traits and just keep on

 

[soap&eggs]

thank you for such a fast reply !!! what you wrote was what i was thinking but kind of needed someone else to comfirm .... when i get the odd ones i sell them out as mutts ..now can claim they are designer birds !!!!

 

[GotGame]

lol, ya my wife loves silkied seramas...