Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[masked rider]

They look great! Thanks for the info. I currently only have black, but I can see myself adding partridge at some point. Do you cross partridge with partridge to keep the partridge going, or can you cross say black and partridge and get partridge?

Silver partridge is on my "wish list"...

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Can you post a picture from your bird?

Yes, I think these are repeats though. Maybe I posted them in another thread. You saw her at the show Alexandra.

Here she is right after her bath wrapped in a towel the day before the show and then at the show. You can see how pure white her chest and belly are - she got reserve to her darker sister.






Dian that color Sonoran called it was silver quail. Here is the quote:

Originally Posted by Sonoran Silkies

What colour is your second bird? She looks rather like silver quail...(picture posted here from feathersite):

or https://sites.google.com/site/belgia...thebarbuduccle near the end are some blue quails and some silver quails.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Quote:
Silver Quail - Thanks! She looks to have a bit of the Colombian around her neck too.. I wonder if those genes are linked... I am going to have to look that one up on the color calculator and see what does that white chest. Oops, genetics... sorry

She is lovely - what color did you show her under?

 

[Fur N Feathers]

You are so funny!

I showed her as gray. I didn't really know what to list her as and gray is an accepted color. Anything else would have been AOV. She does have that dark Columbian collar but it blends in with the gray of her back colors.

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Here is a little pair of cuties in their awkward stage. I am very pleased with the little pullet's posture for as young as she is.

 

[kabhyper1]

Is there anyway to begin to guess sex on a partridge? This one is 4 weeks today.

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Well, we can all guess and have a fifty fifty chance of being right.

I study mine for hours and hours looking at different factors that I have read and experienced. It's always easier for me with my own because I am around them constantly. I take tons of pictures from the day they are born and compare those shots to others of the same age that have grown up. My chicks above are 7 weeks old and I had them sexed the day they hatched. Of course I may be wrong - it will be at least 4 or 5 months before crowing and egg laying starts to see if I am right.

There is DNA testing also. On the regular silkie thread someone has it done for $10 per bird. That is really reasonable I think.

 

[kabhyper1]

The comb on my little one seems large, but hens have been known to have big combs. By looking at my terrible pictures, lol, do you have any thoughts?

 

[chickieluver26]

Here is my partridge girl zoey

 

[BuckNBark Farm]

Too young to tell. Breeder Quality means no defects that can't be removed in the second generation, and as long as it has 5 toes, black skin, blue ears, black eyes and silkied feathers it will be fine. The extent of the Quality will only be seen when it grows up Come back in another two months with more pictures - I really would like to see what the final colors of this one is going to be.

Quotes on the computer are easy, quotes on the phones can be a problem. When you quote something you can remove what you don't want to quote if they are all mixed together (just go into the quote and delete it). If you have it setup in your profile to only quote the latest response you won't have any earlier quotes in there (that is the default, you would have to change it if you want multiple quotes to show up). Try quoting and see, and if you don't like it you can clear the editor.

Thanks!