Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[peepblessed]

I just had the pleasure of meeting him. He really IS a nice guy. He gave me LOADS of his time and toured me through all of his birds at the show. l can't tell you how much I learned. I'm still trying to digest it all.

Please share some of the things you learned!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I thought it was interesting that the judges had changed the cards to read "self blue" instead of lavender (if a Silkie had been entered as Lavender). Porcelain was "self blue creme".

Well, self-blue is the recognized name.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I am planning to breed BBS and am hatching eggs from different breeders to get started.  I purchased eggs that have some colors I will not be using so plan to sell the chicks that I do not need.  Is there any advantage to keeping whites if they are typie?  I am not sure but I thought I read you can breed white cocks with colored females?

breeding a white to a non-white is unpredictable. Do not expect chicks to be standard colours. Which parent is white and which is non-white makes no difference.

 

[RIRJen]

Very excited for this years first show here in Michigan! (still a few months away) This is our blue rooster, yet to be named, who is looking mighty hunky

 

[ChicksNherps]

Very excited for this years first show here in Michigan! (still a few months away) This is our blue rooster, yet to be named, who is looking mighty hunky

So handsome! He doesn't even look like a cockerel! He looks like my pullet.

 

[ChicksNherps]

Want to post this here too, Nori layed her first eggs! Only took her a year haha! These are my first eggs ever so super exciting!

 

[RIRJen]

So handsome! He doesn't even look like a cockerel! He looks like my pullet.

Oh I know! I had him in the splash/blue pen as a blue pullet for a long time...then was like wait a minute! LOL he's a boy though

 

[heirloomorps]

Oh I know! I had him in the splash/blue pen as a blue pullet for a long time...then was like wait a minute! LOL he's a boy though

I have just done the same thing with one of my blues. He looked like a pullet until about a week ago. Now he is definitely a boy and I have to move him.

 

[ChicksNherps]

Oh I know! I had him in the splash/blue pen as a blue pullet for a long time...then was like wait a minute! LOL he's a boy though

I have just done the same thing with one of my blues. He looked like a pullet until about a week ago. Now he is definitely a boy and I have to move him.

My pullet has NO comb so i'm assuming she's a pullet, also my rooster loves her lol

 

[byveidt]

Here's the boy a few days later in the quarentine pen.