Silkie thread!

[SilverSilkie]

This one is not diluted, the Silver peaks of a Quail rooster with black head.

 

[SilverSilkie]

This is a rooster (Columbia-looking) of 3 generations ago still with white head.

 

[peepblessed]

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Lovely color also! I bet your record books are so interesting!

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

Stupid question.
When a chicks crest is growing to the girls crests start growing from the back first rather then the front?

 

[chikincrazee]

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Welcome to backyard chicken...love your birds....I have a black colored rooster who is suppose to be a split lavendar but he looks like one of your silver ones...he has sliver barring in his wings and like a frosting thru his body all silver on a black base....I will take a photo. I was going to breed him to a lavender but now am wondering if i should breed him to a split hen i have who is silvery and black also.....The Europeans have so many more variations in their varieties especially the partridge colors...I have a rooster who would be considered a wild partridge color and hes from a black on black breeding...also I have discovered i have two lines of blacks who leak some silver in their hackles as opposed to red..i was thinking of crossing them on some paint based whites i have to work on purifying the white base on them....any thoughts on that idea??????

 

[peepblessed]

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Is this what you mean? This is the same pullet at six weeks then at 12 weeks.

 

[chikincrazee]

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Im betting on Snow White...Cody has a girl who looks just like that and we kinda thought maybe a boy but she just has a longer neck and i think it makes them look more roosteree...no matter what its a beautiful bird your daughter can pick them well.

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

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Is this what you mean? This is the same pullet at six weeks then at 12 weeks.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_img_6449.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_img_6795.jpg

Did her feathers start to get really long at the back of the crest before the front?
All of my girls seem to get longer feathers at the back of the crest before the front

 

[mshuey1]

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OMG, know that's what I call drop dead beautiful

 

[peepblessed]

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Is this what you mean? This is the same pullet at six weeks then at 12 weeks.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_img_6449.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_img_6795.jpg

Did her feathers start to get really long at the back of the crest before the front?
All of my girls seem to get longer feathers at the back of the crest before the front

They were definitely longer but not all my pullets grew in that way. Some grew in very evenly. Cockerels too.