Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[scbatz33]

Would y'all mind checking out my babies?

http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.2175249818434.2131449.1162474515

Feedback PLEASE!!!!!

 

[pennie1]

Quote:
I am just basically going to do the color of the birds. Their wings seem nice and tight.
Well I hope you get more than my opinion because I don't know much, but here goes.
I am not going to take up time on the babies. They seem fine except for whatever input you had on there.
Many of these seem extremely light, almost orange.
2A. cockerel would be my guess. Very light in color
2B. Keep the beak trimmed. I have 1 like that.
4A. Again, very light. I'm almost thinking blue partrtidge. The under fluff looks blue
5A. Same as 4. Maybe blue partridge.
5B. Cockerel

There doesn't seem to be a dark chest on any of the birds which is called for in the SOP
Their crests seem to be the same color as the rest of the body. It's supposed to be dark.
The black one is very pretty. The comb maybe a little off, but I don't think it's a problem.
Your best bet would be to read and reread the SOP for each variety. Of course there isn't an SOP for the blue partridge because it is not a recognised color. You could ask other people that have the blues and find out.
They are all very beautiful in their own right. Actually I really like the one (shoot, I can't remember the number) maybe 5A.
You have pretty much cretiqued them yourself.
They are not true partridge. Crest is supposed to be a very dark chestnut to black. Pullets are lemon yellow with streaks of dark running down to its back and chest. The under fluff is supposed to be black or very dark chestnut also.
If you look back at the first pictures posted and the pictures from Bat Cave Silkies you will see what hens and cocks are supposed to look like (or very close to it)
Here is a link to the SOP for partridge Silkies.

http://www.browneggblueegg.com/StandardColors.html#partridge

 

[huckleberryfarm]

This is my formerly Natasha now Nikolai. He didn't have a comb or those crazy streamers until about 5 months old.

Some of my partridges:

One of my "gold" girls, Poppy

I have a few little ones that look promising though!

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

scbatz~~went & looked at your photos, just concentrated on the Partridge. I'm a firm believer in growing out a Partridge to at least 7 mths, before I decide on it's color. All Silkies "change" as they mature, but with Partridge (at least for me), that change can be pretty drastic. If everything else is okay on the bird, I hold onto them....

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

Quote:
Looking good

 

[Cetawin]

Okay penne this is the single comb. Guys I know this is not partridge but penne is helping me.

Am I seeing a single comb?

Sarah I checked the other babies this morning...the other white from this hatch is showing signs of crossbeak time to contact that person...she needs to know these two issues from her pens.

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

I'm not Pennie, but yep~~thats a single comb

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

I know this is a touchy subject, and I'll probably get jumped by somebody, but~~~some breeders keep breeders that they know may produce single combs, wry tail, cross-beak, wrong number of toes = because they know they can sell the chicks as PQ.
I don't have the room or the market for such chicks; I don't want to knowingly produce a chick that has the possibility of hatching with one of those problems.
I'd rather concentrate my time & effort on improving type, than breeding out such problems

okay

I'm ready...

 

[chickendales]

2 of those problems arent tolerable at all i can live with useing a single comb bird or typie bird with 4 toes on one foot cross beaks and righ tails i cant live

 

[kelar]

Oh come on out from under the chair Sandy LOL. I too am a firm believer is weeding out birds with DQs as well as any that produce them, but that being said, people need to understand that most breeders (that I know of anyway) do not pair breed and finding the bird(s) carrying the recessive and unwanted traits is much easier said than done. If the majority of my chicks are born without DQs, I usually am happy with that so long as type is good. It's really difficult when you sell eggs because some of the chicks are going to have DQs whether you like it or not. That does not mean you should necessarily cull the parents. At one time I got really crazy about it and sold off nearly every bird in some of my pens, thinking I would start over and eliminate the problems I was seeing. WRONG!!!!! All that happened was that I started seeing different issues brought in by the new birds, and on it goes. Each time you introduce an outcross line, you have no idea what you are introducing, both good and bad. Some breeders do keep birds with DQs in their breeding flocks because those birds are superior in other ways. I won't ever knowingly introduce it into my flock, but I'm not nearly as crazy about it as I used to be just because I know those things are going to show up and I have to live with it. There are times I'm pretty sure that if every silkie carrying a bad recessive gene was culled, there would only be a handful of birds left in the country Sort of a joke, but you know what I mean

The most important part of the equation, IMO, is to be totally honest with your customers as far as what you actually know about a bird. What they do with them after that is really out of your control. These days, I worry more about things like wry neck & other health issues affecting the breed than I do about toes.