Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

[Brody's Broodello]

Nice to know that it wasn't just me think, What!!!!!

Then I sat there thinking, ok not dead momma, black dust mop? Silkie momma after fending off an attack from the lawn mower! Or better yet, not really a chick just the puffiest silkie in the bunch, after a bath , the morning of judging, at the silkie nationals, that decided that, Yes Mom I Need To Molt Now!!!!!

Judy what are ya trying to do to us!

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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If you go to Brenda's website & look at her 2008 I think breedings ahe has chicks that are Black/Lavender splits.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

When I first say the pic, I thought it was some kind of weird spider then I read it was a chick !!

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

Judy's gonna die laughing when she reads all these responses in the morning....I know she had NO idea she would cause so much confusion when she put the black feather boa in with the single chick

 

[brenTx]

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OK...not sure I understand that at all. When you first start crossing a true lavender to a black you get black or strange colors(mutts) You won't get any lavenders the first crossing. Then you cross any of those...I usually keep the good blacks since they are just that...good blacks and sell off the mutts. ALL will be carrying ONE gene for lavender. THEN take those splits....(lavender being split to black)...meaning lavender colored bird to black, and you should get 50% black 50% lavenders. You may get a few mutts but mostly I don't.

Does that help? If you go back to just splits and NO full lavender in the breeding your % goes out the window...it will take you much longer and you don't know the first time around what is truly carry the gene.

 

[jen5680]

All of my black/lav chicks are black. I no that other people have got "gray" chciks too
but I don't no what other colors you can get???

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Sorry...I should have mentioned that I put a piece of an old "boa" in there for this single baby. Yeah...the other two were quitters around day 17 or so.

The baby is really snuggling up to it

I have a few chicks that are a couple of weeks old and we'll try to gradually introduce this baby over the next few days. I took the picture with my cell phone (although it does have a small flash) in a very dark room. It's probably a bit lighter than the pic shows.

I will be watching the color closely. We do have other varieties and it is entirely possible that someone picking up eggs put an "L" on an egg from the blue/splash pen. Although this baby is lighter than any blues I've ever hatched.

I'm fairly certain it is a lav....but not 100% sure.

 

[rilly10]

Computers can mess with color but the second pic looks like the lavs I have been hatching!

Ps Judy...I just candled the eggs from you and even with the po messing up and taking a week I have 8/12 developing!!!!! Thanks so much again!!!!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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Yeah!!!!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

DUH.....I checked the chicks shell again and is definitely says "B".... not "L". It's pretty sloppy writing but no doubt this is a blue chick.