@Hinotori
As always your Parrtridge birds are so beautiful!
It may not be approved standard but my personal likes are the darker crest/foot feathers on any Partridge -- the Moorheads may not be standard but they are very striking to me anyway. Wouldn't surprise me that one day Silkie Moorheads might become standard. It just takes so many years of perfection breeding and shows to get a color variety officially approved.
Please clarify for me --- Blue Partridge is the Gold/Light Gray (original Partridge variety)? while the Silver Partridge is the Darker Gray crest/feet/tail feathers with a lighter silvery gray body?
Also, do you know if the Silver Partridge (or any Silkie Partridge variety for that matter) should they have speckled wing feathers the way the original Gold/Light Gray Partridges have? And if so, what color should the speckles be on a Silver Partridge's few feathers? My handicapped/disabled Dark Partridge chick that we lost at 2 months had 3 to 4 bronze speckled wing feathers on each side. Sadly she didn't live long enough for us to see how her full coloring would've turned out. TY!
So far we're thrilled with the way our two Partridge girls' coloring is turning out but they're still young and we love them to pieces already
It'll be interesting to see how our 10-yr-old Partridge hen will interact with the chicks when they're integrated (in about 2 or 3 more months)
Our old Partridge girl:.
Faded color from our hot summer sun.
This old Partridge girl has figured out over the years how to get other hens to pluck the feathers around her eyes so she has better visibility. At first we thought we had feather-picking hens until we saw this old girl pester another hen to pick off the fuzz around her face! When she's satisfied with good visibility (usually takes about a month) she doesn't pester the other hens any more! Who says Silkies aren't smart? Before we lost our Black Silkie hen our Partridge and Black Silkie girls would trim each other's eyes! We hope this old girl one day will eventually teach this trimmng technique to our new Silkie chicks LOL!
As always your Parrtridge birds are so beautiful!
It may not be approved standard but my personal likes are the darker crest/foot feathers on any Partridge -- the Moorheads may not be standard but they are very striking to me anyway. Wouldn't surprise me that one day Silkie Moorheads might become standard. It just takes so many years of perfection breeding and shows to get a color variety officially approved.
Please clarify for me --- Blue Partridge is the Gold/Light Gray (original Partridge variety)? while the Silver Partridge is the Darker Gray crest/feet/tail feathers with a lighter silvery gray body?
Also, do you know if the Silver Partridge (or any Silkie Partridge variety for that matter) should they have speckled wing feathers the way the original Gold/Light Gray Partridges have? And if so, what color should the speckles be on a Silver Partridge's few feathers? My handicapped/disabled Dark Partridge chick that we lost at 2 months had 3 to 4 bronze speckled wing feathers on each side. Sadly she didn't live long enough for us to see how her full coloring would've turned out. TY!
So far we're thrilled with the way our two Partridge girls' coloring is turning out but they're still young and we love them to pieces already
It'll be interesting to see how our 10-yr-old Partridge hen will interact with the chicks when they're integrated (in about 2 or 3 more months)
Our old Partridge girl:.
Faded color from our hot summer sun.
This old Partridge girl has figured out over the years how to get other hens to pluck the feathers around her eyes so she has better visibility. At first we thought we had feather-picking hens until we saw this old girl pester another hen to pick off the fuzz around her face! When she's satisfied with good visibility (usually takes about a month) she doesn't pester the other hens any more! Who says Silkies aren't smart? Before we lost our Black Silkie hen our Partridge and Black Silkie girls would trim each other's eyes! We hope this old girl one day will eventually teach this trimmng technique to our new Silkie chicks LOL!
