mille fleur silkies

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

yEah, I should only go through about 150? With this project..... Those crosses are going to be hard to find homes for...

 

[TK Poultry]

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yeah no kidding maybe you can sell them to project homes. Ok dumb question but do you have like a mock up picture so that you can try to strive for that. Kind of like a mock up mock up standard.

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

Ill draw one up... But I haven't even done your amer logo yet haha
Also I guess I'm gonna get the birds from state fair..
-EVERY BODY I NEED SQ MF COCHINS AnD BUFF POLISH THIS FALL! ADULTS ONLY-

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

And if anyone else is interested in this project or my project birds I make let me know! I will need to find homes and we will need another bloodline too

 

[chickendales]

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first generation silkies crosses dont have silkie feathers

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

I know, I was getting carried away, I put heterozygous.. I jus was not paying attention
I wasn't saying F5 would I was saying keep offspring that had silkie feathers for project... Read more thoroughly next time

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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George's reasoning for breeding the cochin to the polish first (I've had the conversation with him many times) is to get a bird who is close to type, with the crest before crossing to silkies; his belief is that getting the bird back to type takes less time doing it that way than breeding to silkies first.

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

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George's reasoning for breeding the cochin to the polish first (I've had the conversation with him many times) is to get a bird who is close to type, with the crest before crossing to silkies; his belief is that getting the bird back to type takes less time doing it that way than breeding to silkies first.

Have you spoke to george about the project too?
He wants to see how it goes and keep me on track but he dnt wanna do it himself

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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That's not right; it will give walnut unless the walnut combed bird is het. for rose and/or pea comb, in which case it could be rose or pea combed or single combed.

(r+/r+ p+/p+) plus (R/R P/P) gives all offspring (R/r+ P/p+) walnut combed

(r+/r+ p+/p+) plus (R/r+ P/P) gives 50/50 (r+/r+ P/p+) pea combed and (R/r+ P/p+) walnut combed

(r+/r+ p+/p+) plus (R/R P/p+) gives 50/50 (R/r+ P/p+) walnut combed and (R/r+ p+/p+) rose combed

(r+/r+ p+/p+) plus (R/r+ P/p+) gives all the above combinations, plus (r+/r+ p+/p+) single combed

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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first generation silkies crosses dont have silkie feathers

True, but silkies are introduced in F4; in F6 is when they are selecting for silkie feathering.