Silkie Sexing Project 2.0

[afwifey]

I was so excited when I found this thread! Totally geeked out!! I was sad I missed posting week by week I'm gonna post our 2 silkie babies week by week for you silkie gurus!
I won’t say what my gut says yet because I’d love to know if you all think the same!
Mocha (partridge) and Mochi (gray? What’s the right color name?) are sisters who apparently have a frizzle gene we weren’t expecting. These pics are from day 1 and 2. I will reply with each week’s pics if you want to guess along or feel free to skip to the end to guess.
Also looking into DNA testing them!
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Week 1

 

[afwifey]

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Week 2

 

[afwifey]

Week 2
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Week 3

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

...and the results are in! all except RBf anyway, apparently I didn't get enough blood from them Click the spoiler haze to reveal the result!

RED GROUP​
RBf​	No result (need to resample )​	RWt​	Female​
RBk​	Female​	RBu​	Male ​
RSp​	Male​	​
PINK GROUP​
PBf​	Male​	PWt​	Female​
PBk​	Female​	PBu​	Male​
PSp​	Male​	​
ORANGE GROUP​
OBf​	Male​	OWt​	Male​
OBk​	Male​	OBu​	Male​
OSp​	Female​	​
GREEN GROUP​
GBf​	Female​	GWt​	Female​
GBk​	Female​	GBu​	Female​
GSp​	Female​	​
BLUE GROUP​
BBf​	Female​	BWt​	Female​
BBk​	Male​	BBu​	Female​
BSp​	Female​	​

Wow I really screwed up on the green group I guessed all males and ended up being all females

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Gina,

At the risk of losing my trophy ... I'm not getting (PCTG) the same averages you are (Listed). .... I'm not sure if it's in how your accounting for RBf ... or if there's something else going on.

I tried to make sure I copied these correctly, hopefully I did.

I was trying to see how I did by chick. I wanted to break down if I got each bird more or less right, as I was all over the map with them. Clearly, some birds were easier/harder than others.

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(the numbers under AvgByBird are the totals across for the 9-weeks)

Hey, no worries! It's a lot of data entry so it's entirely possible for me to make errors. I'll double check what I got and see if I can see what's going on.

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Wow I really screwed up on the green group I guessed all males and ended up being all females

That group was pretty tricksy!

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

@Krugerrand Wow good catch! I put two of the sexes in wrong for Red Group. It should be (I have edited the post to correct it) RWt Female, RBk Male, RBu Female, and RSp Male. I also entered your week 1 completely wrong, no idea what I was doing there, lol, but I fixed it and it matches your table. For the one where you skipped a couple of guesses on week 2 I think it was you told me to put them in as female and I did. You did not...I wonder why I did that. Huh. Welp, I'll take those two answers off, but I do count non guesses as incorrect so that would still have a count of 24. See if the correct for Red Group fixes the averages. If not I'll keep looking.

ETA: It also looks like you left off round 10.

This is what I have now, after double checking and correcting:

Krugerrand

Group

Bird

1​

2​

3​

4​

5​

6​

7​

8​

9​

10​

R

Bf

M

F

F

M

M

M

F

F

F

F

Wt

M

M

F

F

F

F

M

M

F

F

Bk

M

-

M

M

F

F

F

M

M

M

Bu

M

M

M

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

Sp

F

-

M

F

M

F

F

F

F

M

P

Bf

F

M

M

F

M

F

F

F

M

M

Wt

F

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

F

F

Bk

F

F

M

M

M

F

F

M

F

F

Bu

M

F

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M

F

M

F

M

F

F

Sp

M

M

F

F

M

M

M

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M

F

O

Bf

M

M

F

F

M

M

M

F

M

M

Wt

F

M

M

F

F

F

F

M

M

M

Bk

F

F

M

M

F

M

M

M

M

M

Bu

M

F

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

Sp

F

F

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

F

G

Bf

F

F

F

F

F

M

M

F

F

M

Wt

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

F

M

M

Bk

F

F

F

M

F

F

F

M

F

F

Bu

F

M

F

M

M

M

F

M

M

F

Sp

M

F

M

M

M

M

M

M

F

F

B

Bf

M

M

F

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

Wt

F

M

F

F

M

M

F

F

F

F

Bk

F

F

M

F

M

M

M

M

M

M

Bu

M

F

M

M

F

F

M

F

F

F

Sp

M

F

M

M

M

F

M

F

F

F

AVG

13​

12​

15​

11​

12​

16​

13​

15​

19​

20​

14.6​

54%​

50%​

63%​

46%​

50%​

67%​

54%​

63%​

79%​

83%​

61%​

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Now I'm paranoid. Gonna go back and double check all my guess entries...Weeeeeee!

 

[MixedFlock23]

Wow! This is amazing!! I thought I was crazy about data when I weighed my chicks weekly & graphed their weights. You win the prize though!! I haven’t even looked at the results yet—just amazed by the data entry & time that went into this project! Great job!! Can’t wait to see if I can tell what my littles are by comparing your info. Totally gonna tag you guys when I post pics/start a thread too! I’ll take a 67%—better than 50%. I’ve only owned 5 Silkies (plus the 3 chicks now).

 

[Krugerrand]

You had Green on the bottom of week 2's picture.

@Krugerrand Wow good catch! I put two of the sexes in wrong for Red Group. It should be (I have edited the post to correct it) RWt Female, RBk Male, RBu Female, and RSp Male. I also entered your week 1 completely wrong, no idea what I was doing there, lol, but I fixed it and it matches your table. For the one where you skipped a couple of guesses on week 2 I think it was you told me to put them in as female and I did. You did not...I wonder why I did that. Huh. Welp, I'll take those two answers off, but I do count non guesses as incorrect so that would still have a count of 24. See if the correct for Red Group fixes the averages. If not I'll keep looking.

ETA: It also looks like you left off round 10.

This is what I have now, after double checking and correcting:

Krugerrand

Group

Bird

1​

2​

3​

4​

5​

6​

7​

8​

9​

10​

R

Bf

M

F

F

M

M

M

F

F

F

F

Wt

M

M

F

F

F

F

M

M

F

F

Bk

M

-

M

M

F

F

F

M

M

M

Bu

M

M

M

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

Sp

F

-

M

F

M

F

F

F

F

M

P

Bf

F

M

M

F

M

F

F

F

M

M

Wt

F

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

F

F

Bk

F

F

M

M

M

F

F

M

F

F

Bu

M

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M

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Sp

M

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O

Bf

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M

F

F

M

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M

F

M

M

Wt

F

M

M

F

F

F

F

M

M

M

Bk

F

F

M

M

F

M

M

M

M

M

Bu

M

F

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

Sp

F

F

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

F

G

Bf

F

F

F

F

F

M

M

F

F

M

Wt

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

F

M

M

Bk

F

F

F

M

F

F

F

M

F

F

Bu

F

M

F

M

M

M

F

M

M

F

Sp

M

F

M

M

M

M

M

M

F

F

B

Bf

M

M

F

F

M

F

F

F

F

F

Wt

F

M

F

F

M

M

F

F

F

F

Bk

F

F

M

F

M

M

M

M

M

M

Bu

M

F

M

M

F

F

M

F

F

F

Sp

M

F

M

M

M

F

M

F

F

F

AVG

13​

12​

15​

11​

12​

16​

13​

15​

19​

20​

14.6​

54%​

50%​

63%​

46%​

50%​

67%​

54%​

63%​

79%​

83%​

61%​

Alright! Here we go with this week's edition of chick mugshots! I was tryna be helpful but most of them ended up looking cranky from my choice of angles others looked surprisingly fabulous

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They were more (or less as in BBu's case) cooperative this time, but they still don't enjoy being handled. I forgot to take RBk's headshot...I got the data for them but somehow missed that so I'll get it tomorrow. Everyone's still healthy and happy and growing well!

Edited to update picture