Showgirl thread- for posting pictures and discussing breed!

[BetsyOK]

Your baby that doesn't have the naked neck is a normal silkie, and will not carry the naked neck gene, which is dominant and will always show with a naked neck.

 

[mjgigax]

yes i also did not quite get that

the little roosters will respond to another crow but baby girl chicks will ignore it.

 

[sharkman]

Can someone give me a photo or a really get verbal description of what a showgirl that did not get the naked neck gene would look like? Out of my 10 eggs, 6 have hatched and 5 are naked neck and only 1 doesn't have the NN gene. So will it look like a silkie?

These chicks have little to no FM so even if they have silkie type feathering they will not be silkies/showgirls. Are these first generation NN to silkie? If they are they will not have silkie feathering you will need to breed them back to a silkie t get the feathering. either way these need to bred back only to pure silke for several generations to get all the silkie trates in to them. Make sure any you sell are for pets only and not sold as silkies for breeding.

 

[CliffB]

None of these chicks came from a silkie so to speak. These are all showgirl and turken chicks. The moms were a smooth showgirl, a silkied showgirl and a smooth turken. Dad was a showgirl also.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

None of these chicks came from a silkie so to speak. These are all showgirl and turken chicks. The moms were a smooth showgirl, a silkied showgirl and a smooth turken. Dad was a showgirl also.

I think they are adorable!

 

[sharkman]

None of these chicks came from a silkie so to speak. These are all showgirl and turken chicks. The moms were a smooth showgirl, a silkied showgirl and a smooth turken. Dad was a showgirl also.

Are you just hatching for fun or are you wanting to breed for showgirls? generaly if you are breeding for showgirls you should only breed showgirls to pure silkies so you improve them and make them more like silkies each generation. all the non NN "silkie" type chicks should be sold as project birds for pets and eggs not as silkies because if people breed them as silkies it will introduce unwanted genes into peoples silkie breeding groups. I have seen several silkie project babies from Sizzle and Showgirls that look pretty much like silkies sold as silkies and then they pass on the wrong comb genes, or low FM, wrong toes or color leakage. when you get your pure silkies be on the lookout for "project" silkies and don't use them for your breeders.

 

[CliffB]

These are just for me and my 1 year old daughters enjoyment. My whole flock is so mixed with breeds there is no telling what eggs may come out of my coop. I am curious to see what all of these birds end up looking like since 2 are identical to their dad, 1 is identical to her mom and one is yellow, and one is a buff/red color. Curious where that buff/red color came from and what color the yellow one will end up being.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

These are just for me and my 1 year old daughters enjoyment. My whole flock is so mixed with breeds there is no telling what eggs may come out of my coop. I am curious to see what all of these birds end up looking like since 2 are identical to their dad, 1 is identical to her mom and one is yellow, and one is a buff/red color. Curious where that buff/red color came from and what color the yellow one will end up being.

Mine are mixed too, I love not knowing what you are going to get. Though I do want to start a showgirl line, but I'd like to get an nn with a cleaner neck than mine.

 

[CliffB]

These little naked necks that just hatched don't appear to have any bowties which is odd since all of the parents do. Curious to see how they look in a few days.

 

[sharkman]

These little naked necks that just hatched don't appear to have any bowties which is odd since all of the parents do. Curious to see how they look in a few days.

Mine are mixed too, I love not knowing what you are going to get. Though I do want to start a showgirl line, but I'd like to get an nn with a cleaner neck than mine.

The small or no bow tie is usualy the Homozygous form of the nn meaning they have 2 doses of the nn gene. With Homozygous (usualy shown as NN) all the babys will be Nn (Nn means Heterozygous) if bred to a non nn, and all of them will have Heterozygous gene Nn and a larger bow tie. If you breed a Nn Heterozygous 50% of there babys will be Nn if bred to a non nn. You get 25% homozygous NN babys from breeding hetero Nn to a hetero Nn.

If you want to start a SG line you are better off getting a SG and breeding it to your silkies rather than starting with a regular nn. it will take you many generations just to get them to look like SG's and you will produce a lot of culs in the process. you will save yourself a lot of time and trouble by trying to find one perfect SG and breeding it into your flock.