MORE! can't help it baby SHOWGIRLS are so darn cute!!

[revelu]

 

[chickiebaby]

This is so unfair. I had just gotten over the earlier pics and now you go and post more. These are the cutest little puffball squeaktoy babies I have ever seen.

Why cant I have more chickens? Why am I not a homesteader in the woods? Oh, why, why, WHY!?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Precious! Precious! Precious!

I just can't stand it anymore, I'm putting my NN Silkie girls back with a Silkie roo tomorrow. Or a NN Silkie boy w/ a couple of Silkie hens --- decisions, decisions, lol.

Thanks for sharing the pics! They are beautiful!
What color will they be? The last 3 pics look splash, but the 1st 2, ???.

Lisa

 

[revelu]

I really don't know about the colors-- I thought the first two pictures were of the red baby, and the others I thought were going to be white but now maybe buff? do you have pictures of what they might look like if they are splash?

 

[KellyGwen]

They are SO CUTE!

I have a question... I have a silkie cockerel and what I think is a NN pullet... If I breed them next year what will I get?

Just in case the NN turns out to be a boy... What will I get if I breed him to one of my silkie girls?

Thanks!!

 

[revelu]

I would think you might get Naked Neck Silkies--- which are Showgirls ! you could get regular Silkies too, but then if you breed naked necks to naked necks that's what you'll get in the future-- someone correct me if I'm wrong---

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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You'll either get a Silkie or a Showgirl. The Naked Neck gene is dominant, so the babies either get it or they dont. If they come out with a naked neck they are a showgirl, if they come out with a fully feathered neck, they are a Silkie. There isn't any "carriers" of the gene displaying feathered necks?

Is that clear as mud?

 

[KellyGwen]

So they would come out with the silkie feathering? Or would they be sort of bed-headed for a generation?

 

[BirdBoy88]

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i want some of those eggs!

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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That depends on what generation of Showgirl you are using. Usually the early generations of the Silkie/Naked Neck cross dont completely look like Silkie Showgirls.

If you are using an established Showgirl, then the resulting offspring will have normal looking silkie top knots.