Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[littlecritters]

hey do any of yall know if wry neck is genetic?

Wry neck (called torticollis) is most often caused by neurological damage, disease or vitamin deficiency. Vit E supplements will sometimes help resolve wry neck. Best of luck with your hen!

 

[moomoodiddy]

Wry neck (called torticollis) is most often caused by neurological damage, disease or vitamin deficiency. Vit E supplements will sometimes help resolve wry neck. Best of luck with your hen!

thanx! can i gave them some sav a chic vitamin supplement or somethin else

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Agreed. Wry neck is a symptom, not a disease or condition with a single discrete cause.

 

[Me & Jack]

Agreed. Wry neck is a symptom, not a disease or condition with a single discrete cause.

Yes, totally agree. Nice to hear others saying so...maybe the days of people assuming it's just a nutritional deficiency are behind us.

 

[silkieloverz123]

Best of luck to your hen!

 

[chikincrazee]

Okay I want to work on our self blue line which i will call lav...i have 2 hens and 2 roos..they are okay but not of the type that would wow anybody sooooooo i want to add black i was reading my genetic bible...21st Century Poultry Breeding by Grant Brereton...its got lots of pictures and actually has a section with silkies in it and another with breeding for the lav color...so am i correct in assuming with one lav parent and one black parent the F1 chicks from this will all have the lav gene but be black in appearance so then i cross them back to lav for my F2..???????...hoping to have some show birds maybe in a year or year and a half....

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Well, it certainly CAN be, and treatment is much the same regardless of cause (although some causes require additional treatments such as antibiotics).

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Okay I want to work on our self blue line which i will call lav...i have 2 hens and 2 roos..they are okay but not of the type that would wow anybody sooooooo i want to add black i was reading my genetic bible...21st Century Poultry Breeding by Grant Brereton...its got lots of pictures and actually has a section with silkies in it and another with breeding for the lav color...so am i correct in assuming with one lav parent and one black parent the F1 chicks from this will all have the lav gene but be black in appearance so then i cross them back to lav for my F2..???????...hoping to have some show birds maybe in a year or year and a half....

Yes. All offpring will be Lav+/lav. Bred back to lavender you will get half Lav+/lav and half lav/lav. Bred to each other you will get a quarter who are lav/lav. The remainder you will not know who carries lav and who does not. But, you may be better in type, and with 4 lavender birds crossed to 4 blacks, by crossing the F1s together you could have a larger genepool to work with. Especially if you try to get unrelated blacks (and hoping htat your lavenders aren't too closely related).

 

[chikincrazee]

Thanks Suze..all of my lavs are unrelated as i have collected them over the past 2 years...hoping my old boy can still breed...lol...will see what we get ...after seeing Brens beauties at the Nationals we have a long ways to go!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Okay I want to work on our self blue line which i will call lav...i have 2 hens and 2 roos..they are okay but not of the type that would wow anybody sooooooo i want to add black i was reading my genetic bible...21st Century Poultry Breeding by Grant Brereton...its got lots of pictures and actually has a section with silkies in it and another with breeding for the lav color...so am i correct in assuming with one lav parent and one black parent the F1 chicks from this will all have the lav gene but be black in appearance so then i cross them back to lav for my F2..???????...hoping to have some show birds maybe in a year or year and a half....

As I understand it, crossing lav to black will give you all black split for lav. If you then cross those splits back to a lav, you should get 50/50 = half split and half lav.