Silkie thread!

[peepblessed]

Can anyone tell me if this silkie chick is a pullet or roo? She/he is about 10 weeks old now. Thanks.

Too soon for me.

 

[SilverSilkie]

Ah... Is leakage a genetic fault of some sort? Or does it mean that colors other than B/B/S have been introduced somewhere in the breeding line?
Also, is it true that black bred to black will produce a deeper truer black color than a black coming out of a B/B/S pen breeding?
I'd like to understand this a bit more, so that we can be more educated when going forward and purchasing more chicks. Thanks!

No, leakage is not a genetic fault it only means that in this case there are no melanizers at work.
No, breeding black to black not implicate deeper intensity of black color, to do this you need the black-pigment melanizers.
To understand more about color-genetics you need to learn the working of the color-genes and there inhirit ways.
As with everything it seems at first an insurmountable mountain but everybody can clim it, step by step ;-)

 

[skyl3r]

yes some people trim, those who show will tape the crests or use gelatin to gel the fluff out of the way, or even pluck some around the eyes...

I say go ahead and trim around there, its usually more the beard thats a big problem than the crest in my opinion, but trim the beard/cheek area under the eye and the crest that falls right above/front of the eye, just enough that if you hold her to eye level you can see her eyes.

It's usually the cheek (muff) that cause them the most problem and also curl into their eyes. I usually trim cheek feathers with blunt baby scissors starting at 6 wks and sometimes way earlier depending on the bird. Those cheek feathers can totally block their ability to get around. Crest feathers usually only need trimming on a very large crest or if you are free ranging and want them to be able to see a hawk.

Thank you both so much. Yesterday, when I was kinda brushing the cheek feathers away, I even noticed that there was part of the feathers in the lower eyelid, they came our wet with a little junk on them. I am going to cut them back tonight. I feel bad because Einstein was so outgoing, getting into everything. Now, it almost seems like she is in shock, just kinda standing around until I move her! Its not killing her or anything, but she seems more timid all of a sudden. I think I am going to trim them away this evening and cut the darn talons on her toes too! She's a mess!! I think she will be very excited to see. I don't think I would ever show, just too much stress in showing Clydesdale maybe soured me a little! But thank you again for great advice!

 

[skyl3r]

Had to post this too-cute pic of my little partridge cockerel. Poor little fella has a crooked beak so I named him Owen (Owen Wilson lol). Does he look like an Owen or what!?

Owen is a perfect name. It fits him perfectly!

 

[Hawkeye95]

Here's are photos of my Catdance chicks that hatched yesterday. One porcelain, 3 lavender, 5 BBS. Great chicks!!


This is my favorite! Lavender extra fluff!

ADORABLE!!! What great colors you have! They are all so fluffy!

Can anyone tell me if this silkie chick is a pullet or roo? She/he is about 10 weeks old now. Thanks.

10 weeks is too early to tell on a silkie as they could start to develop their comb later on. For right now, it looks like a pullet, but that may change as s/he develops over the next couple of months.

 

[3ChickensinNC]

Here's are photos of my Catdance chicks that hatched yesterday. One porcelain, 3 lavender, 5 BBS. Great chicks!!


This is my favorite! Lavender extra fluff!


 

Adorable

 

[Melissa Rose]

Here is a pic of some Catdance silkies that just hatched that I am using to mother my Chinese Painted Button Quail that just hatched

 

[littlecritters]

No, leakage is not a genetic fault it only means that in this case there are no melanizers at work.
No, breeding black to black not implicate deeper intensity of black color, to do this you need the black-pigment melanizers.
To understand more about color-genetics you need to learn the working of the color-genes and there inhirit ways.
As with everything it seems at first an insurmountable mountain but everybody can clim it, step by step ;-)

Thanks again for your help. I am going to study your genetic guide! I may try to print it out and read in the car this weekend as we travel to Williamsburg, VA.

 

[PoultryPower]

Here is a pic of some Catdance silkies that just hatched that I am using to mother my Chinese Painted Button Quail that just hatched

OMG! I want quail so very badly! Did you use an incubator to hatch them? All my tries to incubate quail eggs have been unsuccessful. I had one that made it to about 4 days before it was supposed to hatch. It was very sad to crack open the egg 3 days after due date and see a fully formed chick that I really thought was going to make it.

 

[Melissa Rose]

It took me three tries to actually get any that made it out of their eggs alive then they all died within a week

Dingo on here mentioned he puts them in with silkies when they hatch and he gets a good survival rate

. It works

!!!! Not to mention when you peek in the brooder box and you get to see tiny button quail riding their silkie ponies it is just simply to die for - LOL

I use high humidity when they incubate and then even higher when they hatch. A spray bottle of warm water spritzed in on the eggs as they are hatching helps