Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: For a book, Genetics of Chicken Colours is excellent in explaining the different genes in layman's terms. I don't know if you will be able to find a copy though. It's an expensive book ($100), and was close to out of print last I heard. Check at chickencolours.com. For a website, Poultry Genetics for the Non-professional and Genetics of Chickencolors and Basics are good starting points. chickengenetics.edelras.nl has some great photos, and once you have a better understanding, goes into a lot more detail.

 

[peepblessed]

For a book, Genetics of Chicken Colours is excellent in explaining the different genes in layman's terms. I don't know if you will be able to find a copy though. It's an expensive book ($100), and was close to out of print last I heard. Check at chickencolours.com. For a website, Poultry Genetics for the Non-professional and Genetics of Chickencolors and Basics are good starting points. chickengenetics.edelras.nl has some great photos, and once you have a better understanding, goes into a lot more detail.

I believe someone is selling that book on the BYC auction site.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Well, if I didn't already have it, and was wanting to get it, my first step would be to contact jerry (the serama guy--I never can spell his last name correctly) or blackdotte (David Hancox) to see if either of them still have any copies available. If David was in the US, he would be my first to contact as he is one of the authors.

 

[XoJennyxO]

Okay I posted this in my newbie intro and only got one vote on the poll here is one of my new silkies is this a blue partridge or silver partridge?




this is what it looks like next to the white one




and is this one doesn't have any black stripes on its back... so does this mean it's actually a red? Sorry. I'm new at this. Literally we got them Saturday for my sin for easter. Well, we went to get him ONE but then of course he needed a buddy and then that buddy ended up not being a silkie which resulted in bringing home these two

 

[XoJennyxO]

Sorry didn't mean to post it twice.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

They are too young at this point to tell how they will feather out

Most likely they will be 'regular partridge' more gold/red - #1 doesn't look silver at all, though it could feather in a lighter bluer shade of partridge

Below is a pile of regular partridge chicks with one possibly being a blue parti in there and one being really dark mainly black (buried at the bottom hard to see)



The same batch of babies now a few weeks down the road are in the mix here (that really light one IS NOT one of those babies above - I just got that one Saturday before I took this picture Sunday)

 

[XoJennyxO]

Thank you. Yeah they are starting to get their feathers on the tips of their wings the top ones are gray and the bottom one's are reddish brown.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Thank you. Yeah they are starting to get their feathers on the tips of their wings the top ones are gray and the bottom one's are reddish brown.

Usually a red chipmunk stripe (in my experience) its going to be Partridge or possibly blue partridge, if its a more muted stripe or grey stripe (or even no stripe) I would think Grey/ Silver partridge. My lighter partridge chicks some will start with grey wing tips then the brown and tan barring will come as those feathers grow in

 

[spowell]

For a book, Genetics of Chicken Colours is excellent in explaining the different genes in layman's terms. I don't know if you will be able to find a copy though. It's an expensive book ($100), and was close to out of print last I heard. Check at chickencolours.com. For a website, Poultry Genetics for the Non-professional and Genetics of Chickencolors and Basics are good starting points. chickengenetics.edelras.nl has some great photos, and once you have a better understanding, goes into a lot more detail.

Thanks, I will keep a look out for the book and in the mean time I will check out the web sites! Thanks again everybody.

 

[ChickenBantam]

Here's my little robbin. She's a partridge silkie, about 4 weeks old now. She is such a loud mouth! And she's the smallest in the group!