Silkie thread!

[SilverSilkie]

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and a very nice one

 

[Tripp16]

Is this a partridge?? Or splash?

Im thinking partridge. Also can you tell if it is good quality by looking at it here? Or does it need to grow up. Not sure if it is a boy or girl.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It is likely partridge, but that does not preclude it from being splash partridge. What colour were the parents?

No way to tell quality until a bird is much, much older. Some faults can be detected at hatching, but even things like comb type or toe count can be mis-interpreted on a tiny chick. I've certainly thought I had a 4-toes bird that when older did indeed have all its toes--I just missed seeing them.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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So hens dont have these hard feathers? If thats so I have all roosters....

Hard feathers in wings and tails can occur on any gender. On the tail they tend to be more noticeable on roosters due to type differences between male and female. You do not want entirely silkied wing feathers.

 

[aoxa]

Lorraine, 27 weeks old

Steve, 1 1/2 years

Pearl, 4 -5 months old.

Just got a new egg from someone in my flock.. Is it too big to be from my 27 week old silkie pullet?

 

[SilverSilkie]

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I suppose when you speak of a Splash you intend a ground-color E/E (Extended Black) with double doses diluting Blue (Bl/Bl), this chick is not.
It is for sure a partridge ground-color chick and based on gold. If it is a girl she have a "eye-line" boys not have that in partridges ;-)
The exact quality of the adult bird can't be told by the look at a one day chick but you can tell immediately if it is a chick with qualities or not.

 

[peepblessed]

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I am still studying your website and finding it so interesting though way over my head. Someday I trust it will all make sense.

I want to ask your opinion of this pullets color.
She is one day old in this photo
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_img_6318_sm.jpg

And 4 months in this one. She was hatched from shipped eggs and the egg was marked either black or partridge. She looks blue to me but wondering if she will change color again.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_img_6887_lava_crop.jpg

She is georgeous!

Thank you! I love her! She came from ebay eggs!

 

[peepblessed]

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That is one gorgeous baby!! I love splash!!

 

[peepblessed]

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You have a very nice website! All your silkies are wonderful! Adorable alpacas! I am just getting started.

 

[peepblessed]

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I am still studying your website and finding it so interesting though way over my head. Someday I trust it will all make sense.

I want to ask your opinion of this pullets color.
She is one day old in this photo
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_img_6318_sm.jpg

Your chick have the "partridge" pattern as all these here under. As you can see there are many similar but not completely exact the same patterns in them. (this because of pure and unpure ground-colors (E-locus) and the presence of other mutated genes).
All this and much more is explained in my website which contain not only 7 head-pages but also more than 30 detailed subpages (of which several specific for Silkies singularities).
http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/7808/chicks.jpg

And 4 months in this one. She was hatched from shipped eggs and the egg was marked either black or partridge. She looks blue to me but wondering if she will change color again.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102351_img_6887_lava_crop.jpg

She is a Blue and she wil stay a Blue. (Blue is a Black diluted in 1 doses by the gene Bl/bl+).

I am getting a couple of blue partridge chicks next week. If I breed her to one of them, what would I get?