Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[Sylvester017]

Still interested.....thanks!

I know nothing of genetics. Probably cross-bred in the past with some other Partridge breed generations ago.

 

[Hinotori]

I have no idea but Sylvester017 is most likely correct. I think white is the original color for silkies, but I can't remember on that either.

 

[Hinotori]

9 weeks old. She's almost to the stage where she looks like a miniature adult

 

[dawn secord]

Here is my baby at 12 weeks old. She was supposed to be a light colored partridge to go with my dark partridge cockerel. She has darker partridge colored wing feathers and tail feathers coming in.

Not sure what color she is called now....big question - do you think she is a she? Fingers crossed.

I gave her a haircut last night and cut the feathers around her eyes away. She is starting to head wobble - not sure if it is the silkie wobble from a head trauma or feathers in her eyes.






This is a picture of her about 2 weeks old.

 

[Hinotori]

Looks girlish to me and the crest says girl. (I have had boys look like that before) The comb should be flat or just small bump. (Said boys had bigger combs giving away their sex)

As for color. Looks kind of buffish.


BUT!

I crossed two different partridge lines and the pullets always look like this in the first generation.

ETA: ok that's a couple year old hen that's been playing in the water so she can see.

 

[Hinotori]

The only clear pullet pictures I can find right now of the odd colored girls as pullets.

 

[dawn secord]

Thank you! Fingers crossed she is a she!!

 

[koolkyle08]

So my beautiful partridge Silkie "Cayan" was sneezing when I went out to close up the coop

I brought her in and medicated and fed her. She seems otherwise ok but I am so worried. She is two years old and just a docile little sweetheart. I hope she is ok because I love her and hate the thought of losing her. I only have 5 silkies in my flock of 20 or so and she is my favorite

 

[koolkyle08]

She started panting a few minutes ago which also worries me

 

[koolkyle08]