Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[swheat]

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Top (red) is a roo
Second is a hen edited to add the hens will have penciling

 

[Cetawin]

Dark head second pic is a hen and red head first pic on the left is a roo

 

[pennie1]

Pullets/hens have a more muted color with penciling on the wings and a very dark head. Cockerels/roos are much brighter in color. They can have a darker crest but nothing like the girls. The girls crests also seem to develop/poof much quicker.

 

[chickendales]

 

[chickendales]

 

[pennie1]

Hey Chickendales!!! Cute babies!! Don't we all just want to hug the little suckers?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Actually, partridge do not always have a dark head; the standard calls for the head to NOT be dark (although personally I do like the ones with the dark heads). With both males and females, the brightness of colour has to do with the genes carried, not gender.

Males have only a bit of penciling (if any); females should have a LOT of penciling.

 

[pennie1]

Sorry about the miss info. I am just speaking from personal experience. I can tell my pullets when they reach about a month old by the poofy dark crest, the more muted color and the penciling.

 

[pennie1]

Good morning all!!! I thought I would let you see my recent hatches. Within this last week these hatched. I put some of the ones that were a little older out in the older chick brooder. I still have about 11 eggs to hatch plus what is under Hentoo. As you can see I FINALLY am getting some whites. The blacks in the pen came from my partridge and black with a red neck.
Hentoo actually came from a black pen at Premier so I get about 50/50 black and partridge. Some of these blacks are turning out really nice.

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I have lost 4 eggs so far from our 12 hour power outage. But to be quite honest, it doesn't really matter because I have about 40 babies of varying ages running around!!! AAAGH!!

My husband is getting a little worried.

Sorry about Mr. Poobutt in the first picture. I cleaned it off after I took the picture.

 

[jen5680]

Very cute Pennie!! Love those little fluffy butts!!
And yes, the husband should be very worried