Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

[friedeggs]

So what color is this chick with all the lavender and yellow? Is this a PI baby? I'm trying to sort through the babies who will best suit my program, and am unsure about this one. I can take another pic of it next to a blue chick for compairson if needed. Any thoughts/input would be most appreciated. I have 3 of in this color.

looks columbian, carrying a pattern gene. I also see blue.
I do not see any dilution.
This is my opinion as a breeder, I've seen this in the past. And sold them off or gave them away.​

 

[GypsyChic]

Quote:
looks columbian, carrying a pattern gene. I also see blue.
I do not see any dilution.
This is my opinion as a breeder, I've seen this in the past. And sold them off or gave them away.

Thank you, I appreciate it...A LOT!

 

[friedeggs]

What would I pair together to get silver partridge?

Silver pencilled/partridge. Certainly can use silver gene whites too. Cull, for autosomal red. Males will have it and its quite a task to rid the birds. Actually have a friend that breeds grays and are her love and has had quite a breakthrough with autosomal red. This has been an endeavor upon years and years of dedication.

What about to get blue partridge.

These chicks coming up w/ blue and be sourced out to recessive white. Certainly recessive white bred to silver partridge.
Should yield both or the possiblity of both. For me though, wouldn't use any silver partridge from that cross for a gray line.
My opinion here.​

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Here is one of mine. Supposedly grey/silver partridge. Silver/grey in feathers, some are still down and pin feathers.

It has rained quite a bit here past couple of days. It needs a bath

My avatar is this same one at 3-6 weeks.

It is about 3 months old.
This is the one I think is a roo

 

[AHappychick]

here is a stumper. Out of my PI pen I have now hatched out a few WHITE babies. In the pen are what I hope (still checking all of them but some I am sure of) Buff/lav splits, and a full lav roo. The chicks look silver or blue when they hatch, I know from reading Sonoran that whites often look like ths but my white flock all look yellow when they hatch. At first I thought the chicks were blue or an off lav but then they feather in white. So strange to me. I did not keep the last few but I think I have one now in the brooder I wonder if it is a pearl I guess I will have to grow out and see. I am also getting a lot of barred.penciled chicks from that pen instead of PI so I am switching out the lav roo for another as maybe he has some hidden genes that are being activated when mating with the Buff/lav splits.

On a nother note my black split lav roo with the smalles darkest comb and skin and huge crest is breeding fantastic very black skinned lav babies. I am so excited I have only hatched out 6 or so but I am so pleased as my last lav roo was making some very light skinned and pink combed lav chicks. But these new chicks are the nicest I have ever seen

I was unaware that people sold off colors as PI I have a ton of weird splits that are really nice looking but not a standard color and certainly not PI I will have to take some pics maybe there is something new in there lol


Has anyone tried making barred lavs? or is the silkie feathering too blury to make it worth trying. I ask cause i have a Cuckoo Cockerel with no cuckoo mates I cant deside to sell him or not. I do have a black sizzle hen maybe some sizzle cuckoos?

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Quote:
Silver pencilled/partridge. Certainly can use silver gene whites too. Cull, for autosomal red. Males will have it and its quite a task to rid the birds. Actually have a friend that breeds grays and are her love and has had quite a breakthrough with autosomal red. This has been an endeavor upon years and years of dedication.

What about to get blue partridge.

These chicks coming up w/ blue and be sourced out to recessive white. Certainly recessive white bred to silver partridge.
Should yield both or the possiblity of both. For me though, wouldn't use any silver partridge from that cross for a gray line.
My opinion here.​

Thank you!

PS- the grey in the photo I posted above, did not come from silver gene whites. Probably was some partridge gene in there somewhere 2-3 generations back. One other is showing red in the breast & saddle- I am 90% certain to be a female. HOWEVER, she could be blue partridge.

We will see what I have when they are all fully feathered out. I have 2 more chicks like this, so am watching all closely

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

AHappyChick......my whites hatch out yellow too......If I were you, I would definately grow out one or two like what you are hatching just to see what I have.

 

[Darling Farms]

Happy Chick ~

We have hatched a few whites out of our Lavender/Lavender breedings.

With ours, I think there is just a recessive white gene in the line.

Our rooster and one of our hens more than likely have it.

We are doing test hatches to see which hen has it and then removing her from breeding.

Ours at least are not pearls... just recessive white.

~ Darling Farms

 

[featherbaby]

Darling farms, When breeding is it more important that the rooster be high quality or the hen? Both is ideal, but that never happens. Does one sex have more influence over the offspring's characteristics than the other?

I want some lavender babies and have your black/split lavender cockerel and pullet. (I think I have one male and one female, they are still young).

Would it be most important to purchase a top notch lavender Rooster or a lavender Hen to mate with my splits if I can only afford one of the two?

 

[FrenchToast]

OK, I don't have time to read all 233 pages to find out my answer to this question so here it is.

What do all of you experts know of splash silkies that carry the lavender gene?

I have a chance of purchasing some nice splash that are suppose to come from a very reputable source that supposedly (forgive my spelling, I'm in a rush today) carry the splash gene.

My understanding is that if say you have splash split to lavender and you breed them and don't get any lavender that only a percentage of them will carry on that split gene correct?

So if I would try to figure it out would it be like crossing Ll x Ll =25%LL (no gene) 50%Ll (with lav gene) and 25% ll (lavender) ??

I also heard that if you cross lavender with lavender you won't get all lavender? Is that correct? I would think you should get all Lavender or because the Lavender gene is ressesive you could get non Lavenders? What throws the monkey wrench in that scenerio?

Thanks

I'm going to look at these birds today so if you have an answer for me could you post ASAP please.

Thanks much

FrenchToast