Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[farmer boy]

Can we lose the non-standard abbreviations? No real answers for F1s, But eventually you could get blue partridge. Buff X blue can get you a bunch of mutt colours, but you can also be ucky and have the genes line up right and get blues and buffs. But that would probably be a very small percentage. Pairing grey with black will vary depending on whether the black is gold or silver.

the buff is buff and partridge ... he has a bunch of kids already and they are partridge .. my friend bought 30 partridge babies from a breeder and i have 1 of them ... i don't get why they call the grey a silver partridge or grey but my silver partridge has lighter grey not darker and i posted it some where and people said it was silver partridge but idk the difference ,,,,what do you mean gold or silver . like when she was little had like gold or silver mixed in on her or ?

 

[Tncowgirl1903]

I found a light buff silkie for sell and was thinking and I am wanting to ask you more expert silkie breeders if I add this chicken to my porcelain flock if it will make my porcelain color show better or will it mess the color up?

 

[aoxa]

I thought I'd jump in and share some of my project partridge birds. True bred partridge are impossible to find in my area unfortunately. Their mothers were all white, and their father was buff/partridge.

The chicks are 9 and 11 weeks old. The boys all have a distinct comb right now unfortunately. Hope they don't grow too much more in that way..

All of these are the girls:















The following was 2 weeks prior, so they were 7 weeks












Some of the full Blues: (BBS breeding) 6 weeks.







One of the newly hatched chicks. I have had a helluva time hatching these silkies this summer.

They are hatched much better under the broodies.
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[farmer boy]

I thought I'd jump in and share some of my project partridge birds. True bred partridge are impossible to find in my area unfortunately. Their mothers were all white, and their father was buff/partridge.

The chicks are 9 and 11 weeks old. The boys all have a distinct comb right now unfortunately. Hope they don't grow too much more in that way..

All of these are the girls:















The following was 2 weeks prior, so they were 7 weeks












Some of the full Blues: (BBS breeding) 6 weeks.







One of the newly hatched chicks. I have had a helluva time hatching these silkies this summer.

They are hatched much better under the broodies.
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yours are so much bigger then there sister here .. are they the same age ??

 

[ChickNmamma]

No it's more long stretched and she pecks at the chicks making them cheep loudly in surprise.

And she raises her hackles.

Long stretched out RRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - high in the beginning and low at the end - that is a warning. It means "go away", danger, threat. Raising hackles makes themselves bigger to chase off the threat.

I gave some chicks to a broody Silkie one night, she made that sound with one of the babies. I put it under her and she seemed to settle down. The next morning I was out watching her - and she chased that one off repeatedly, pecking it and rushing it - it was a black Sumatra. The other chicks were brown, yellow or chipmunk (Silkies and Partridge Wyandottes) and she was fine with them, just not the black and white one.

Both the males and the females will make this sound, especially when they see something new they don't know what to do with. Moving the hose - putting a piece of watermelon in the coop for the first time, bird flying over head, etc, etc.

 

[littlecritters]

Just want to mention that for any of you who use Facebook, there is a group called American Silkie Bantams (Silkies).

 

[Jharper]

Poor thing can't see much.

 

[aoxa]

yours are so much bigger then there sister here .. are they the same age ??

The youngest partridge is 10 weeks now (turned 10 weeks on Monday). Oldest 12 weeks. Could be because yours developed cocci. None of these silkies did.

 

[farmer boy]

The youngest partridge is 10 weeks now (turned 10 weeks on Monday). Oldest 12 weeks. Could be because yours developed cocci. None of these silkies did.

well mine is still very pretty .. i will get you a pic tomorrow .. im gonna do a little trim though because she can't see that well right now

 

[aoxa]

well mine is still very pretty .. i will get you a pic tomorrow .. im gonna do a little trim though because she can't see that well right now

Some of my girls can't see a whole lot, but are very savvy. They've been free ranging since 4 weeks. Very good at it now. They hang in the woods and in brush much of the day.