Need advice on silkie chicks colouring ASAP

[Melmba]

This is wat ive got, their not all together in one sorry, so i sent mish mash

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Well to be fair its not a full naked neck it has fluffy cheeks and fluff above chest i dont know wat u call these .. part naked neck

Ah, ya.. those look a lot more partridge, thanks for clearing it up! Cute babies, all of them.

The naked neck gene.. produces variations in the nakedness depending I THINK on the purity of the gene, maybe.. That is if I recall correctly. It's a dominant gene.. so bred with non NN birds will still produce NN off spring.. a bow tie being one of the variations.. And it doesn't change bearding as far as I know.. with the exception that NN can produce up to 70% less feathering.. presumably relative to other parts of the body and not just the neck.. Sometimes making for an over all easier to pluck bird.

Pretty sure, they are still called Showgirls if they are NN Silkies at all.

This wiki link describes the dominance of the allele and how it effect the feathering a little under "trait"..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Neck

Are you going to breed any of yours? The genetics is so fascinating, once it catches your interest of seeing what YOU can do with chickens!

 

[Melmba]

Ah, ya.. those look a lot more partridge, thanks for clearing it up! Cute babies, all of them.

The naked neck gene.. produces variations in the nakedness depending I THINK on the purity of the gene, maybe.. That is if I recall correctly. It's a dominant gene.. so bred with non NN birds will still produce NN off spring.. a bow tie being one of the variations.. And it doesn't change bearding as far as I know.. with the exception that NN can produce up to 70% less feathering.. presumably relative to other parts of the body and not just the neck.. Sometimes making for an over all easier to pluck bird.

Pretty sure, they are still called Showgirls if they are NN Silkies at all.

This wiki link describes the dominance of the allele and how it effect the feathering a little under "trait"..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Neck

Are you going to breed any of yours? The genetics is so fascinating, once it catches your interest of seeing what YOU can do with chickens!

Ohh yes ur right a bowtie silkie, think i prefer these to the stripper silkie (according to this image)

 

[Melmba]

Ah, ya.. those look a lot more partridge, thanks for clearing it up! Cute babies, all of them.

The naked neck gene.. produces variations in the nakedness depending I THINK on the purity of the gene, maybe.. That is if I recall correctly. It's a dominant gene.. so bred with non NN birds will still produce NN off spring.. a bow tie being one of the variations.. And it doesn't change bearding as far as I know.. with the exception that NN can produce up to 70% less feathering.. presumably relative to other parts of the body and not just the neck.. Sometimes making for an over all easier to pluck bird.

Pretty sure, they are still called Showgirls if they are NN Silkies at all.

This wiki link describes the dominance of the allele and how it effect the feathering a little under "trait"..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Neck

Are you going to breed any of yours? The genetics is so fascinating, once it catches your interest of seeing what YOU can do with chickens!

Well its my mum who has all the chickens and where my hatching passion has come from, she has about 300 different types of chickens from the usual warrens to leghorns to all kinds, during the 6 month lockdown i went to stay with her for the whole period and bought 8 silkies while i was there, and i must of hatched over a thousand regular chicks in that time, when i came home i missed doing it so like a crazy lady i bought the whole shabang and started hatching again, i live in a townhouse no chickebs allowed so im just hatching to sell, but have kept the blue showgirl because its just soo beautiful and i kept a white silkie to be best buds they will both eventually live at my mums, anything i hatch from now on will mostly be sold unless i hatch something unique, i already have too many boy silkies at my mums this showgirl i predict is a boy so i really cant have more ..one of the boys eventually needs to go sadly. Each boy i have are different colours its gonna be hard to choose. Silkie is my passion not my mums, hers is leghorns. Long winded story sorry