Introduction - The Silkie Lab (Danielle)

[007Sean]

Howdy, Danielle and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[Jener8or]

Hi Danielle! I think your business sounds very interesting! I only know of one other place that does DNA testing like that, so there is a need for more resources like that.

Thanks for joining and welcome! I hope you will maybe share some of the details or the day-to-day in some of your posts. I'll be looking forward to it!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello Danielle, and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[janiedoe]

Welcome to BYC, Danielle!

 

[chrissynemetz]

Welcome to BYC! We're glad you decided to join us!

 

[Jenbirdee]

hello! nice to have you with us!

 

[Tookie]

Hello, and welcome to BYC! We're glad you joined us, and its nice to meet you.

 

[TheSilkieLab]

Hi Danielle! I think your business sounds very interesting! I only know of one other place that does DNA testing like that, so there is a need for more resources like that.

Thanks for joining and welcome! I hope you will maybe share some of the details or the day-to-day in some of your posts. I'll be looking forward to it!

Thank you very much! Yes! There are a few who do DNA Sex Testing, but only one other place that does pheno/genotype testing! I plan to hopefully be able to be pretty active in this community

 

[Noraaaaa]

Hi everyone!

My name is Danielle and I am a Silkie Breeder and I own The Silkie Lab.

I'm in Michigan, and I created my own little business for DNA Testing Chickens, Geese, etc. I am only a few years into breeding silkies, so I wouldn't consider myself a full-blown breeder yet, but I'm working on Lavender, Lavender Laced, and Porcelain (Mille x Lavender).

I wanted to join here to not only discuss chickens and breeding, but also, my business. At The Silkie Lab, I do DNA Sex Testing on many species, along with Antigen testing for Mareks and ALV, and I test for the Lavender Gene. Within a month or so, I will also be releasing testing for the Blue Egg Gene, and the Recessive White Gene. I really enjoy studying genetics, and working in my lab, and looking out the window and seeing my Silkies .

Thesilkielab.com

Hi! I dont know if you know about black silkies, but how do you check if they are true black?

 

[TheSilkieLab]

Hi! I dont know if you know about black silkies, but how do you check if they are true black?

Hi!! I do That's a very tricky thing to figure out! One method is to look at the down feathers and if they are blue underneath, that is going to be dark blue and not black. However, some blacks look a bit like that as a chicks, so you'd need to wait until they are older and it's not always 100%. I am developing a test for the Blue Feather gene, so people can actually tell if their bird is dark blue or black It likely won't be ready for another month though. Thesilkielab.com is my business website!