Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[moomoodiddy]

I don't think so.  How old is the bird?  What is its background?

shes 1 or 2 and a complete jacked up silkie she has some paint spots and discoloration and wry neck

 

[TNBarnQueen]

For exhibition, the variety is based upon appearance; for breeding, you need to know the genetics behind it. No one has yet determined that there IS a paint gene, and many specifically think there is not; that it is simply dominant white. Your bird looks buff, and that is what I would call it. It does not look like the champagne-coloured birds from paint breeding; they are a different hue. There are plenty of others who have gotten buff or partially buff birds from paint breeding. There are so many things crossed with paints, including recessive white that I think it is making it harder than it was originally to figure out the genetics behind paint.

I like the colour of your project bird You should see a lot of improvement in type with each generation. At least I did with my chocolates, which bred in from polish.

Oh dear....sorry for the mistake! I posted my polish picks here...one of those long nights when I was not paying attention to what thread I was on. That was my diluted crele polish I am working on. But...come to think of it that would be nice on a silkie!

Hawkeye. ..I had put the pic and question about the black pullet with gold leakage because I did not know exactly what she was nor what to do with her. I had never thought about her being partridge....I just knew she was coming into a lot of gold on her as she matures. She will probably be sold as a pet.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Oh dear....sorry for the mistake! I posted my polish picks here...one of those long nights when I was not paying attention to what thread I was on. That was my diluted crele polish I am working on. But...come to think of it that would be nice on a silkie!

Hawkeye. ..I had put the pic and question about the black pullet with gold leakage because I did not know exactly what she was nor what to do with her. I had never thought about her being partridge....I just knew she was coming into a lot of gold on her as she matures. She will probably be sold as a pet.

Kind of shaking my head that Sonoran thinks it's a partridge-- because she's probably right. The thing is I had Blue Partridge and that is a color that is still not well developed. So you'd think I'd recognize the pattern when I see it, because I had it! I had a girl that was VERY similar to your black with the gold, but just imagine blue instead of black. I wonder if I have a picture of her. Found it! But it's difficult to see the gold really well around her neck in this pic. In person, she has a lot more gold, but like I said, isn't really well defined yet for this project color. I sold her to someone who was working on this color, as it's not a color I want to mess with. She was 4.5 months in this picture-- really too young to be shown since she's not well filled in yet, but she did take BV at Nationals.



Anyway, your black/partridge came out a paint breeding? That would be one of those things where it would be very difficult to know what was in her background because of it. On my bird above, I know what was in her background and could probably accurately guess what might come from her paired with another Blue Part. With paint background-- there is anything and everything in there. Your black-- did it hatch out with stripes on it's back, or as a typical black (with a bit of white on it's chest?) My bird above hatched out with stripes on her back. I have pics of my Blue partridge when she was a baby:

The stripes usually indicate a Partridge.

 

[LaPetiteFarmer]

I am trying to get my pens organized and was thinking instead of having a BBS just do Splash and Blue because I want to avoid blacks in that pen. I have another pen with strictly blacks. So will it be better to have a Splash roo even though the color might dilute over time (can always breed back to black) or add a blue roo (knowing i might get 25% to get black)?

 

[chisNchickens]

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[chisNchickens]

NO idea what happened....all apologies.

 

[chisNchickens]

repost

 

[chisNchickens]

Okay there is something seriously wrong here....I hit submit and it went crazy on me!!!!

 

[chisNchickens]

A blue partridge pullet, 23 weeks old. Feel free to criticize her, or comment her. She isn't bred from my silkies, I got her from a local breeder.






She has full leg feathering, foot feathering, her beard is larger, these photos are a bit old. Her skin is black.

That is a pet quality bird. As far as the color...I believe someone here once said that one should NOT comment on colors one is not working with...hmmmm. Can't recall who that was. Do you remember Hawk?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: I don't really see the blue on my computer, and I am not certain that it is a pullet.

It's young enough that it could improve dramatically...or not at all...as it develops. Recent photos would help with critique