Porcelain Silkie Thread

[flocknfoal]

What would a porcelain roo make with a lavender hen? I have got a chipmunk - but grey and yellow - no brown, out of them. Trying to figure out what I might grow into. Of course, I could just wait.

Catdance (kelar) does porcelain/lavender cross breeding and I've heard of others doing the same. I've been wondering if there is a specific purpose or goal in mind.... waiting to hear more from the experts....

 

[bardies]

Catdance (kelar) does porcelain/lavender cross breeding and I've heard of others doing the same. I've been wondering if there is a specific purpose or goal in mind.... waiting to hear more from the experts....

Sadly, the chick was in with about 20 marans chicks - not sure what I was thinking. One day it was fine, and the next morning, on deaths doorstep. I think I should have separated it and just kept with a single buddy. None of the other silkie eggs hatched so no more other small friends.

 

[Jeansrie]

Is the chick on the bottom of the photo possibly a porcelain? The other chick is a paint. Thanks for any help.

 

[buttonsbabies64]

I am looking for Porcelain Silkie chicks or hatching eggs. Does anyone know where to find them?

Thanks!

 

[flocknfoal]

Tonya Morris breeds porcelain silkies. She has a Facebook page.

 

[bardies]

Just had a lovely silkie chick hatch. Question though - it appears to have an 'extra' toe. So the required 5 on one foot and on the other foot - the required 5 plus the tiniest extra nubbin on the innermost toe. So, here is the question - are extra or missing toes a fluke and therefore it would be ok to use this as a breeder if everything else is good? Or is this a highly inheritable trait making this chick a poor candidate to be a breeder regardless of what it looks like.

 

[buttonsbabies64]

Thanks!

 

[MumsyII]

I had one Catdance Porcelain male and I have one Catdance light Partridge female. For a project I mated them and now have seven pretty chicks. I no longer have the male. It would have been lovely to have pairs in both but it didn't happen. So project pen instead.

These chicks all show different coloring. Two with a more partridge coloring and five in various shades of buff and lavender. I tagged them this morning. They hatched May 28 so they are nearly four weeks old. I put green bands on two because one has four toes on one foot and another has crab claw toes on one foot. These three chicks are my favorites to keep so far.


One of the nicest looking chicks is too dark for a Porcelain and too light for Partridge.




I like this chick. Noticeable buff feathering coming in.

I put a more lavender colored chick next to the more buff colored one for comparison.


I like this chick too. Hoping it's male so I can put him with my only Catdance hatched Lavender female.

If I'm lucky, maybe one or two of these will be more Porcelain than Partridge. Because I split the breeding, it will be difficult but maybe not impossible.
Four weeks is certainly too young for me to plan too far into the future but for a Porcelain project, I hope its a start.

 

[flocknfoal]

One of my pullets is developing some really pretty coloring - similar to what I've seen people call "self cream blue" I think, though it still very light. Basically she has patches of white, very light cream and self-blue. She's only about 3 - 4 months old and the patches seem to be getting slightly darker as she ages. I like her.

Edited to ad: She's from lavender/buff lines - I'm thinking I'll breed her back to my lavender roo.

 

[MumsyII]

She is a delicate color. I like her too. Very pretty.