Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[ChickNmamma]

Hello I'm getting ready to get some these chickens

and just wondering how they handle.

Handle? These are probably the easiest birds to handle - all Silkies are. Just look at the next post...

This is my partridge silkie hen she is about 2-3 months old and loves to be pet from her neck down to the tail. She hates being left outside and waits by the door to be let in.

Mellow's waiting for a neck to tail rub.


Mellow with my new baby chicks ( they aren't hers she'll peck at them if they come to close).

Such a cutie - love her! She thinks she is a person - and doesn't want to live outside!

 

[chickenboy190]

Ok thanks a lot for your help.

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Chickenboy190 silkies are very sweet chickens in general if that is what you are asking. They need to be handled just like any other pet to get used to you and a few treats always help.

She is 4 months old in the pictures above. I went back to my June pictures and found one that is pretty close to the same age as Goggles. She is in the shadow of a building, so not in direct sunlight to see just how copper she is, but I think you can get a general idea. She has a nice large crest, I need to get some nice head shots. The angles I usually post don't show their crests to their advantage at all!

 

[ChickNmamma]

Chickenboy190 silkies are very sweet chickens in general if that is what you are asking. They need to be handled just like any other pet to get used to you and a few treats always help.

She is 4 months old in the pictures above. I went back to my June pictures and found one that is pretty close to the same age as Goggles. She is in the shadow of a building, so not in direct sunlight to see just how copper she is, but I think you can get a general idea. She has a nice large crest, I need to get some nice head shots. The angles I usually post don't show their crests to their advantage at all!

Thank you for that. It gives me hope that both Goggles and DonnaDon are girls! DonnaDon (formerly Dawn/Don) has the red on the wings like yours had, but is turning gold all over now. I would really like to keep that one because it would be a perfect start to beardless Blue Partridge for me!

DonnaDon last week


DonnaDon today. Buff in front is brother. S/he is getting gold all over now... picture didn't show it well though but it does show the darkening around the neck and chest.

 

[Fur N Feathers]

See I am wondering if it is the breast coloring that is the key??? Like you mentioned, my confirmed (crowing 4 month old) boys had that bright copper red on their wings with other coloring on the breast area.

 

[ChickNmamma]

See I am wondering if it is the breast coloring that is the key??? Like you mentioned, my confirmed (crowing 4 month old) boys had that bright copper red on their wings with other coloring on the breast area.

I think so. I hope so

If the color goes from the neck and down the breast - that is girl patterning in almost every Partridge breed that I have looked at. Since I read that autosomnal red is not sex linked the girls can have it too. The boys get the red wings and gold hackle and saddle feathers but the gold does not go down their chests and under their body.

 

[FowlJunkie]

I think so. I hope so

If the color goes from the neck and down the breast - that is girl patterning in almost every Partridge breed that I have looked at. Since I read that autosomnal red is not sex linked the girls can have it too. The boys get the red wings and gold hackle and saddle feathers but the gold does not go down their chests and under their body.

this is such good information for me even though I wasn't the one who asked lol. I have an 8 week old partridge that I keep going back and forth about. Now I know what to look for plus I just got 2 more gorgeous 3 day old partridge silkie babies OMG I'm just so excited and they are THE CUTEST lol and 2 3 week old silkie babies one in black and one in white. Gives me a total of 6 baby silkies now lol. And....I also got 4 3 week old standard cochin babies lol. I'm addicted to my chickies <3

 

[ChickNmamma]

Quote: Welcome to BYC

and Welcome to the Partridge Silkie thread - where we LOVE Partridge Silkies.

Um... you know after that send up we will be expecting PICTURES!!!!! Just one more post and I think you can put them up!

I LOVE Partridge Silkies!.. Well ok - I love Sillies.. er, Silkies too - but Partridge is my FAV color.

 

[Fur N Feathers]

Dian (is it OK that I call you that?). Have you ever seen a lavender partridge? I think this sounds like a heavenly color and I noticed that Sonoran, I believe, mentioned that color in passing a few pages deep - maybe in this thread maybe in one of the others - and just noticed a new person mentioned it on the silkie thread and posted their own rooster which looks like a gray or silver partridge. (Sonoran if my memory serves, feel free to jump in). Anyway, I think I am going to google that color and see what comes up if anything.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Dian (is it OK that I call you that?). Have you ever seen a lavender partridge? I think this sounds like a heavenly color and I noticed that Sonoran, I believe, mentioned that color in passing a few pages deep - maybe in this thread maybe in one of the others - and just noticed a new person mentioned it on the silkie thread and posted their own rooster which looks like a gray or silver partridge. (Sonoran if my memory serves, feel free to jump in). Anyway, I think I am going to google that color and see what comes up if anything.

Yes, you can call me Dian, lots shorter than ChickNmamma.. Its pronounced just like Diane, only my mother didn't want to give me any extra letters.

No, I haven't seen a lavender Partridge. I would think it would be along the color lines of a Self Blue Creme though - because Lavender will modify the red as well as the black. It might be more subtle because the Partridge has mostly golds to change - not the red needed to dilute to creme. Its something that I might work on - once I have Blue Partridge Perfected

They say to use buff and lavender - but the color looks more to me like partridge and lavender. Since my Partridges are going to be worked up from Buff I might have a head start...

Have you ever thought of crossing your bantam Lavender AMs to your Partridge Silkies and see what happens? Might be interesting - if only for a few chicks.... just a mad chicken science experiment... I always have thought it would be nice to have Silkies that laid little blue eggs...

I have only LF Lavender AMs - so I would only cross them by putting my one Lavender girl and the Split girls in with the Silly rooster - don't want my sillies getting squished by those big AM boys. And BOY are they BIG! I might look for a Lav Silkie rooster - maybe next year - or later.. trying to control chicken math here!

I saw the person posting the Silver Partridge rooster that they thought was a Lavender - I was the one that mentioned it didn't look right for Lavender. Somebody else posted a real Lavender rooster awhile back (don't recall who) - very different and more like I would expect from that gene. Still some leakage in the hackles that would not be accepted in a hard feather breed - but Sillies seem to get away with a lot of color variances because you can't see what the feathers REALLY look like!

Do tell me if you find anything called Lavender Partridge - or "Self Blue" Partridge because that's what the ABA wants it to be called..