Showgirl thread- for posting pictures and discussing breed!

[McPhersonFarm]

Hello.... does anyone have any showgirls for sale I am in Tampa FL (female)

I don't currently have any available but should in the spring if you want to keep my name. We are about two hours from you located near Lake City

 

[son4momtime]

Thank You

 

[greenbeetle]

There's a paint showgirl from that batch that already has good-sized wattles, definitely a boy. Do the black-from-paint birds develop more slowly, generally? My showgirls tend to blossom much later than hatch mates that are Silkie.

bethbug74

artsyrobin was saying she got some silkies from you. Do you have baby chicks that often, or just in the spring or certain times of the year. They are such beautiful birds as well as the showgirls. You cannot help but fall in love with them.

 

[RockerHen]

My one and only showgirl, a cockerel, as a chick and as a handsome young guy.

 

[drumstick diva]

Rocker hen - he is just GORGEOUS!!!

 

[son4momtime]

please keep me in mind when you have the showgirls I would take 2 from you..Thank You and Merry Christmas

 

[bethbug74]

I have a just-breeding-age Black-from-Paint Showgirl that appears to NOT have wattles at all, but DOES have a single, thin bit of skin that resembles a "centered" wattle. This would be what bearding would normally grow from on a bearded bird, but he has never shown signs of a bead, and he is quite healthy. No parasites, he stands up fro himself just fine, so it isn't being picked out by others...what do I make of this? He is really lovely; good dark skin and great feet and eyes, so I'd hate to have to eliminate him from breeding just because of this weird skin flap, but I've never even heard of such a thing...not a clue if it's a bad trait to be culled or just an odd presentation of "bearding." It did not appear until he began crowing, just like wattles normally would. At 4 months, he had nothing on his chin at all.

Take a look and let me know what you think:

At 4 months, nothing there at all, and still masquerading as a girl:


Crowing now:

^ That is ONE flap of skin, perfectly centered on his chin.



You can see his teeny tiny wattles on either side of the mysterious flappy thing.



Here's a good frontal view.




Is this just a clean-shaven "bearded" bird? What can I expect to be passed on to offspring?

 

[chickendales]

that is non bearded

 

[chickendales]

and it might be a male

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Beth, I had one similar to that. Just seemed to be loose skin, and my turkens have the wattles but also some seem to have loose skin similar to that, so maybe it is a trait your boy inherited from the turkens