Hummm still have to find this book about genetic...asap...too confusing.[COLOR=800080]Well, I wanted the lavender gene and could not afford to buy a $300 silkie chicken which was the price at the time. I thought I could eventually get [/COLOR]there. [COLOR=800080]The Serama was more of a curiosity factor. I would like to get a "micro" silkie. [/COLOR]
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I love picking Sonoran Silkies' brains - and I tell my self "YAY" every time her post agrees with what I said! It means I got it RIGHT! I gave myself TWO yays today!
All over soft coloring.. pretty. Ok - is there a thread for Isabel Silkies? Or is that on the Self Blue thread too? Page 11 so far, noticing people breeding Self Blues to B/B/S pens, would not be my choice - one recessive and one incomplete dominant to keep track of... Also noticing people who were breeding them at the start no longer list Lavender or Self Blue in their signature lines.. makes me go hmmmm......
Right off the bat that one person was saying Lavender was diluting her splits - that made no sense.. The "regular light bulb in the 3 way lamp" was an excellent analogy to explain how recessive genes work.. but I wonder if there aren't subtle things that a recessive gene can do - so subtle you wouldn't notice them unless you were looking specifically for them. More Hmmmms... perhaps combined with other genes it could create a leakage that wouldn't be there without the recessive gene... more Hmmmmm.
My mom is a visual person too - I have to remember when I talk to her not to talk in abstracts - if she can't visualize it she can't grasp it. Please ignore between the Hmmmmms above- thinking aloud and hoping Sonoran has answers...
Welcome to BYCand 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.
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This thread doesn't move as fast.
for pictures.
I think this is Silkies Anonymous.. or any of the Silkie threads...
Itty and Bitty sounds like good names. I name all my chickens too... I have Blue, Owl, Poppy, Minnie, Annie, Jazz (Jasper), Minkie, Goggles, Peggy, DonnaDon and Dezi - that's the Silkies. I am not going to list the other bird's names.. I am supposed to be doing things today
Oups!!! I missed your question...he was a yellow chicks...Ah HAH - I see it now! Yes, that is the red that goes on the wings of the boys.. at least so far all of the ones I have seen with that red do end up being boys. As Sonoran Silkies just said, the Gold enhances the Red on the boys. Now, that brings up another question - this boy is obviously Silver based - so where does this red come from? Actually - let me change that - maybe he is not Silver based, maybe he is Gold... what color was he as a chick? Yellow or White? He looks to me like a Blue with Red leakage, I guess he has some more growing to do before we figure out what to call his colorsGreat thread, not too long to read all the way through.. ONLY 359 pages!
Well I guess I will start on that tonight.... I think Lavender is a dilution color that dilutes both red and black, so now I am going to have to find how the Isabel is more diluted than the Self Blue Creme
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I love picking Sonoran Silkies' brains - and I tell my self "YAY" every time her post agrees with what I said! It means I got it RIGHT! I gave myself TWO yays today!
*blush* thank you
All over soft coloring.. pretty. Ok - is there a thread for Isabel Silkies? Or is that on the Self Blue thread too? Page 11 so far, noticing people breeding Self Blues to B/B/S pens, would not be my choice - one recessive and one incomplete dominant to keep track of... Also noticing people who were breeding them at the start no longer list Lavender or Self Blue in their signature lines.. makes me go hmmmm......
It is pretty difficult to find folks who are still breeding lavenders.
Right off the bat that one person was saying Lavender was diluting her splits - that made no sense.. The "regular light bulb in the 3 way lamp" was an excellent analogy to explain how recessive genes work.. but I wonder if there aren't subtle things that a recessive gene can do - so subtle you wouldn't notice them unless you were looking specifically for them. More Hmmmms... perhaps combined with other genes it could create a leakage that wouldn't be there without the recessive gene... more Hmmmmm.
I never saw tjhe three-way light bulb analogy... There was discussion on The Coop about subtle things that recessives might do...with lavender there was no consensus that one copy does anything. Mottling can appear on juvenile feathers, and to a slight extent even on adult feathers when a bird has only one copy. I've sen this in my own birds; they tend to lose the mottling more and more with each molt.
My mom is a visual person too - I have to remember when I talk to her not to talk in abstracts - if she can't visualize it she can't grasp it. Please ignore between the Hmmmmms above- thinking aloud and hoping Sonoran has answers...
