Showgirl thread- for posting pictures and discussing breed!

[chickendales]

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silkie to silkie well always produce sillkies feathers

 

[franklinstreetwest]

Ok. It's kinda how I assumed showgirl on showgirl would turn out with continued breeding only to other showgirl and not back into silkie. I kinda like the completely bare necks also.....

The change in dome and body...is that the vestiges of the Naked Neck(turken) origins taking back over?

 

[jlynn]

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I have Showgirls and breed showgirl to showgirl. My Roo is clean necked and my hens are bowtie and bearded. with that being said, I have been working with this flock for four years and have crossed back to a silkie Roo once, just to improve crest size and foot feathering. I have not seen a excessive loss of feathers in any of the offspring, but clean necked have a few less feathers then Bearded bowtied chicks. they all fillout nicely. Because of the cross of Naked Neck(turkin) to Silkie you will always have 50% less featherd then any other breed.
This is my experience I can not speak for others.

 

[franklinstreetwest]

jlynn

Hello to a fellow Michigander! I live in Jackson a fair bit south of you. Thank you for that bit of information, it is quite helpful. I ADORE those two that are died and dressed as bride and groom!!! Did you do it, and what did you use? Mine would've been dyed for easter, but I couldn't find my old punky color and manic panic hair dyes

Your stock looks very nice! I love the all bare neck. Have you done much showing with them here? What do you enter them under?

I just had to ask this question myself because it always seems to be answered with a simple "it shouldn't be done because it will produce an undesirable lack of feathers...". But I have never really heard if there were negative health implications like breeding frizzle on frizzle. And desirable and undesirable are relative to a person's taste. But if it actually risked the health of the offspring, that would be another issue entirely. It sounds like, in this case it is not a health issue. Simply an aesthetics issue.

 

[chickendales]

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undesirable are relative to a person's taste

 

[chickendales]

it realy what u deside your breeding for

 

[chickendales]

this bird is almost what i want

 

[jlynn]

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I have only shown here in MI at the Fowlfest shows and my first show, showing showgirls was fall of 2009. and their was just me and one other person but both my roo and hens did very well winning bb,bv. In this years show i only had a young pair and they both needed to fill out more(All my hens were in molt). here is a pic of two young ones i'm rasing for the show this spring. Bearded one is a Cockerel and the clean necked one is the pullet. I have six other that i have not taken pic's of yet. They are 3 mos. and still have a lot of pin feathers.

 

[jlynn]

I took the pictures with my Ipod can't seem to get them sized right. so they look a little grainy.

 

[franklinstreetwest]

Thanks Jesse.


jlynn:
What do you like better for feathering? Bowtie or none?

I really love having the beard, but the bowtie seems to obstruct the naked neck. Personally I would like a beard without a bowtie.

Where is fowlfest?