Paint Showgirl Thread

[bethbug74]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH! ^after naming HER Isis, SHE started started pouncing on ladyfriends this week. looks like i have a fantastic flock sire, FINALLY! Named Re, as he will be the first independent sire of my Paint flock. He's
gorgeously perfect. pics to come.
^.^

 

[bethbug74]

On the left, here:

 

[jsp28504]

I don't have the room for another color right now, but later on down the road, when we finally move to our farm, I would LOVE some paints! Right now I have a few whites, blacks and buff, both silkies and showgirls

 

[bethbug74]

Look out for ads in the next couple months.

 

[r4eboxer]

I am interested in starting a showgirl flock, I have turkens in blue, slate and white, my white turkens do have the speckled black in the white. I'm getting breeding age silkies this weekend. What should I look for in a silkie roo to produce a good showgirl?

 

[bethbug74]

"Showgirls are a work in progress.
The goal is to create a bantam bird with 5, evenly spaced toes, compact Silkie body type and Silkie soft feathering, dark beaks, even purplish-black skin, a walnut comb, dark eyes, large Silkie crests, naked necks (with bowties, beards, both, or neither), and good mothering abilities.

Breeders begin by crossing bantam Transylvanian Naked Necks with high quality Silkies in order to secure the dominant, expressed Naked Neck gene. The first generation from this cross doesn't look much like a Showgirl at all, but does have a naked neck. From there, breeders cross these hybrids back to high quality Silkies in order to improve type conformation. They begin to look like presentable Showgirls by about F7 or F8, if the breeder is lucky."

Just try to find the very best silkie you can find. Read a lot about silkie conformation, and you'll be fine.

 

[r4eboxer]

"Showgirls are a work in progress.
The goal is to create a bantam bird with 5, evenly spaced toes, compact Silkie body type and Silkie soft feathering, dark beaks, even purplish-black skin, a walnut comb, dark eyes, large Silkie crests, naked necks (with bowties, beards, both, or neither), and good mothering abilities.

Breeders begin by crossing bantam Transylvanian Naked Necks with high quality Silkies in order to secure the dominant, expressed Naked Neck gene. The first generation from this cross doesn't look much like a Showgirl at all, but does have a naked neck. From there, breeders cross these hybrids back to high quality Silkies in order to improve type conformation. They begin to look like presentable Showgirls by about F7 or F8, if the breeder is lucky."

Just try to find the very best silkie you can find. Read a lot about silkie conformation, and you'll be fine.

By F7 does that mean year 7?

 

[bethbug74]

"F" = generation.

 

[r4eboxer]

"F" = generation.

Thank you, nice website BTW.

 

[bethbug74]

Thank you, nice website BTW.

Ha, thanks. I need to make some corrections, now that I think of it.