Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[Sylvester017]

@Hinotori and @Fancychooklady -- always love to hear what you guys input!

 

[Fancychooklady]

This little guy has lots of blue undercarriage.

 

[Fancychooklady]

View attachment 1370755 Partridge come in quite the variety so it's a hard color to perfect. This is the only partridge I have but don't breed for show. I just love her.

She looks almost Chocolate. Lovely.

 

[Fancychooklady]

This is one of my favs.

 

[Hinotori]

View attachment 1371483 This is one of my favs.

She's got a lovely head color. And a nice moderate crest.

I've inadvertently developed the overly large crests in some of my birds. Not something I selected for. Seems to be a side effect of my selection for friendliness. The matriarch of those birds had a rather small crest but all of her offspring had huge ones.

 

[Hinotori]

It was really too dark when I took these. The blue partridge looks absolutely horrible with molt so no picture of her. Just a few random hens. I thought I'd eliminated the black heads several years ago but a pullet and cockerel both hatched with it last year.


Sorry they are a bit dark. It was just at sunset I could take a few

 

[Fancychooklady]

She's got a lovely head color. And a nice moderate crest.

I've inadvertently developed the overly large crests in some of my birds. Not something I selected for. Seems to be a side effect of my selection for friendliness. The matriarch of those birds had a rather small crest but all of her offspring had huge ones.

She's got a lovely head color. And a nice moderate crest.
Yes some of my splash are getting ridiculously large crests, not sure how it is over there, but in Aus if the judge can’t see the birds eyes they are disqualified. I’m not sure that it is friendliness as much as it is they can’t see you and walk straight into you.
Non bearded are much better suited to free range as they are better equipped to hide from predators. But of course breeders such as myself find themselves governed by supply and demand and the fad atm is bearded , large crested fluffy birds.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I hate this new format.

 

[Hinotori]

I ponytail some of the girls occasionally. Pumice stalks me more when she can see me better.

It was just an oops with the friendly ones having big crests for me. The hen that originated it is super friendly and is from a different source than my others. All her offspring had the huge crests and it just spiraled from there.

The boys can see me just fine and rush over as soon as they see me coming. That's what I've been trying to get through the whole flock. It does make trying to get into the pens hard with them underfoot.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Lol, I love the way the little guys run back and forth in front of me at feed time , as if to say “ I found her and she has the bucket, aren’t I good provider “