Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[HookLineSilkie]

Did you hatch them yourself? So COOL!!!

 

[rich hathaway]

Yes we hatch, raise and sell alot of them, locally they are soooo popular and my wife loves them so.
We hatch year round.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Took some quick photos of a few of the partridge growers I kept from one of my last hatches, currently 6 weeks old and all full siblings. I'm still undecided on their sex

Chick one:
I'm very surprised by the colour of this one. Everyone keeps saying it's gold rather than gold partridge...but it is from a gold partridge hen anyone else ever hatched a 'gold' chick from their gold partridges?

Chick two:
Not sure what it'd be classed as or called but I like the barred look this chick has! I think this one will be quite pretty when older.

Chick three:
I believe this one is going to be a moorhead (which I love) and it looks to have a blue coloured tail. It's tail pom is also huge and very circular!

I don't think I'm going to keep any of these ones but if I do...which would you guys decide to keep?

 

[rich hathaway]

Cute chicks

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Cute chicks

Thankyou

 

[Hinotori]

1 and 3 are boys. That orange is a common variant that shows up in partridge roosters. I think I may have finally eliminated that gene in my flock, but then I thought I got rid of the moorhead and 3 generations down one popped up. (I've been trying to breed for the written standard for partridge color. The moorhead are pretry though.)

Number 2 is a pullet. Hopefully she keeps those nice feather markings in the adult feathers.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

1 and 3 are boys. That orange is a common variant that shows up in partridge roosters. I think I may have finally eliminated that gene in my flock, but then I thought I got rid of the moorhead and 3 generations down one popped up. (I've been trying to breed for the written standard for partridge color. The moorhead are pretry though.)

Number 2 is a pullet. Hopefully she keeps those nice feather markings in the adult feathers.

I was thinking a similar outcome too also basing it on the width of their comb. I never like to say for certain though since my partridges can literally throw anything as i've found

The more gold does tend to mean it's most likely a male. Although I have sold a few that were quite gold in appearance that turned out to be pullets

I know my white rooster is partridge based but I don't know exactly what partridge colouration he was. Whatever it is, he produces some whacky coloured and pretty coloured birds!

My main focus is my pure whites so I don't breed aiming to get partridges that meet the standard. I have achieved a few but judges don't seem to really 'like' partridges where I live. Whites always get favoured.

I'm strange in the fact that I hope I get moorheads, I absolutely love them

My favourite one I've ever got is Tiramisu here:

Yes, the all black Moorhead crest is seen as a fault and she will loose points on her colour aspects but I will still be bringing her to shows next year!

Maybe I might keep a hold of that super gold partridge that's a suspected male and see how he colours up. Would you say chick two is worth keeping a hold of? I do like that barred kinda look on her feathers.

 

[Hinotori]

He should still throw partridge colored offspring. If he grows up with good conformation he'd be good, just not for show.

One of my first and favourite partridge roosters was orange. He was a sweetheart to people, but a terror to any other breed of chicken. He had all the large fowl fleeing in terror at the sight of a silkie. He beat up all my poor ameraucana roosters.

I usually keep pullets until they are at least a year to see how they turn out unless they have a disqualify fault like split wing or wrong number of toes. I'd keep her and see how she turns out.

 

[Hinotori]

Posting this because some people dont know what split wing is. It means the axial feather, between the primaries and secondaries is missing. It can be an issue is silkies.

Normal wing

Split wing

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

He should still throw partridge colored offspring. If he grows up with good conformation he'd be good, just not for show.

One of my first and favourite partridge roosters was orange. He was a sweetheart to people, but a terror to any other breed of chicken. He had all the large fowl fleeing in terror at the sight of a silkie. He beat up all my poor ameraucana roosters.

I usually keep pullets until they are at least a year to see how they turn out unless they have a disqualify fault like split wing or wrong number of toes. I'd keep her and see how she turns out.

If I kept him it wouldn't be for the long run as I don't have anywhere else to keep males, I'm low on space unfortunately.

I lean towards perfecting and showing females rather than males since I don't have space to keep many roosters.

If I was to sell him though I think he'd be snapped up straight away! People have a thing for gold coloured varieties of Silkies at the moment.

I just got a decent membership yearbook sent through to me by the Silkie club and they had a pretty detailed page on Split wing and there's quite a few variants of it.