Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[Hawkeye95]

Thank you! He is actually a Paint (believe it or not LOL). Like a normal paint, he throws clean paint chicks and/or blacks when put over paint or black hens.
I'm using him in a "vested/belted" breeding project at this time just waiting on my girls to start laying again. Unlike a red pyle, his mahogany coloring wraps all the way around him forming a "belt". HOWEVER, when bred with a partridge, he does throw red pyle along with some other "interesting" color combos - Needless to say I cull and cull hard

He is absolutely stunning!!

 

[peepblessed]

Thank you! He is actually a Paint (believe it or not LOL). Like a normal paint, he throws clean paint chicks and/or blacks when put over paint or black hens.
I'm using him in a "vested/belted" breeding project at this time just waiting on my girls to start laying again. Unlike a red pyle, his mahogany coloring wraps all the way around him forming a "belt". HOWEVER, when bred with a partridge, he does throw red pyle along with some other "interesting" color combos - Needless to say I cull and cull hard

Thanks for sharing! Beautiful guy!

 

[moomoodiddy]

wat do yall think of keeping a white cock to breed to lav cuckoos or mottleds would that ruin then and who has some lav cuckoos or mottleds

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

Thank you. I have never use any blue shampoo and I came across this brand. I actually feel more comfortable using an actual shampoo rather than Mrs stewart which is more for laundry lol.

 

[littlecritters]

These are " The Terrible Triplets" taken at the APA semi-annual meet in Dalton, Ga. in 1988. Very polite sisters, who took turns winning! They were by the same White cock bird, who sired my buff, out of my 8 year old Black hen, Mamma. Notice that the grey is a very correct chinchilla grey, with a very even frosting. That's what you're shooting for. [rule]

These ladies are lovely. What a fantastic breeding program you had. Congratulations and best wishes on your wedding. Hope you have a long, healthy and happy marriage.

 

[Adoravachick]

Thank you! He is actually a Paint (believe it or not LOL). Like a normal paint, he throws clean paint chicks and/or blacks when put over paint or black hens.
I'm using him in a "vested/belted" breeding project at this time just waiting on my girls to start laying again. Unlike a red pyle, his mahogany coloring wraps all the way around him forming a "belt". HOWEVER, when bred with a partridge, he does throw red pyle along with some other "interesting" color combos - Needless to say I cull and cull hard

Beautiful boy you've got there! He caught my eye as soon as I saw him on your avatar. W O W !

 

[thedragonlady]

They are so beautiful! I noticed that you said that they are all sired by the same white cock bird. Can you shed some light on your experience with using a white bird to produce many different colored show winng birds?

Thank you.

When I got started in Silkies I had a picture in my mind after looking at lots of them. I couldn't buy those kind of birds except on traders' row. I bought birds that were in terrible condition, covered with bugs ( ugh!), huge balls of louse nits in their beards and crests , etc. Took 'em home, de- bugged them, molted them, and bred from them. I was lucky enough to buy Lester, the super daddy to my Buffs, and theTriplets , from ong time Silkie breeder, Bob Cook, at the Ohio National one year. He had no bugs, but he was showing some cream cast to his hackle and saddle. I bought him to make the buffs. When I saw what he threw, I used him on a Partridge. I got Greys. These few , plus the Greys I bought from a breeder who hadn't read the color description for Silkies, made up my Grey breeders .I used Lester for a couple of generations on the greys, and for 5 generations on the Buffs. I never got red leakage either. The whites that came from these breedings were pristine white too. Bear in mind that I never kept more than 10 birds of each color...40 birds total was the most I ever owned.It doesn't take an army, just a few good ones.

 

[Adoravachick]

Thank you.

When I got started in Silkies I had a picture in my mind after looking at lots of them. I couldn't buy those kind of birds except on traders' row. I bought birds that were in terrible condition, covered with bugs ( ugh!), huge balls of louse nits in their beards and crests , etc. Took 'em home, de- bugged them, molted them, and bred from them. I was lucky enough to buy Lester, the super daddy to my Buffs, and theTriplets , from ong time Silkie breeder, Bob Cook, at the Ohio National one year. He had no bugs, but he was showing some cream cast to his hackle and saddle. I bought him to make the buffs. When I saw what he threw, I used him on a Partridge. I got Greys. These few , plus the Greys I bought from a breeder who hadn't read the color description for Silkies, made up my Grey breeders .I used Lester for a couple of generations on the greys, and for 5 generations on the Buffs. I never got red leakage either. The whites that came from these breedings were pristine white too. Bear in mind that I never kept more than 10 birds of each color...40 birds total was the most I ever owned.It doesn't take an army, just a few good ones.

Ahhh, so it can be done. How many culls would you say that you had until the color was just right?

 

[chickendales]

Ahhh, so it can be done. How many culls would you say that you had until the color was just right?

it takes years and 100s if not 1000s of culls

 

[Adoravachick]

I have a question about that little white that I posted pics of last week. She has a pink comb and a tiny black speck on her head. She is very nice and has great type. There is a sale this weekend and I am debating whether or not to sell her. I have some very nice youngsters in that pen that are coming along nicely, I am afraid I will do my pen a diservice by keeping her, especially with the possibility of having some paint genes there. What are your thoughts?