Show Girl with barring pics :)

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You want a barred showgirl roo?? (Well sort of) I just hatched one. The mom must have been my barred frizzle cochin and dad is my white showgirl. He is all black except the "barring spot" on his head. The mom has some silkie in her so we will say he is 3/4 silkie.

Has to be a roo since I have no barred roosters.

She must be the one that is throwing all my black sizzle pullets.
 
ohhhh do you have a pic? are the feathers silkie type? I need another roo like a hole in the head lol but would love to see...
 
Well now he is only like 12 hours old so not sure what his feathers are going to be like. He has great seperation on his toes and the back toe is facing the correct way. It looks like his toe feathering will be good also. I can see the cochin in him a little (skin is light, feet are green tinted black, he's got his mamas eyes) He does have the correct type of comb.
I had another one with this skin color recently and it did darken over time but the neck and comb area leaned more toward mulberry/red than black. Unfortunately that one got into the duck pool somehow and drowned last week
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I will try to get a picture of this guy later.
 
He is sex-linked. If you have a barred hen and a non-barred rooster all the girl babies will be solid black and all the male babies will be barred.

Mom is a barred black frizzle cochin X silkie and dad is a white showgirl roo.

I also hatched 5 chicks from my cuckoo maran X BCM roo and got 4 pullets and a roo.
 
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Pencilling is black bars, stripes or spots placed on an otherwise brown feather.

In your case, your girl is silver which prevents the brown pigment from showing so they become essentially "black and white". So for your girl's case, what the pencilling did was put black bars/spots on a white feather.

Pencilling is highly variable- it is highly affected by many other genes. Gold laced Wyandottes have pencilling that is "highly modified" by several genes. Campines are pencilled.

Barring puts white bars across a feather. A Barred Rock is actually a solid black chicken, however they also have the barring gene which puts the white bars on the feathers making them black and white looking. Barred is also sex linked.

The only difference between buff and light brahmas is that buffs have gold, lights have silver. It's the silver "stopping" the buff color from showing up so therefore they(light brahmas) "turn out" white bodied with black on necks and tails.

Gray silkies are Partridge silkies with Silver added.. turning them into the black(greyish in their case though) and white verisons of partridge.

Pretty bird and good luck with your projects.
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p.s. White is NOT a color. It is simply a gene that PREVENTS whatever color/patterns a bird has from showing up visually. A white bird could be solid black, barred, blue, partridge etc but you just can't see it on the bird at all. So the advise something like "breed X with white to improve..." is not really understanding this fact, probably.
 
This is my show girl Lola - not even sure what she is - I got her from a silkie breeder but all the other "silkies" turned out to be mixes - one was even has frizzle feathers but I dont care I love them. Lola likes close up photos - she is 9 or 10 weeks old in this pic Do show girls have beards normally?
 

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