Silkie thread!

[NovaAman]

From what I can see, it looks like she might be a silver partridge. Can you post a close up of her? We should be better able to tell what color she is.

yup. Just gotta catch her.

 

[peepblessed]

My husband got me silkies!

Are these your first silkies? You will love having them!! Is that ET in your avatar??

 

[peepblessed]

HI all... I have a crappy pic, but I was hoping that someone may be able to tell me what the color would be for this one.. the grey/blue one in the front. It was supposed to be a splash... Um.. don't think i am sure it is... It looked it when I got it at 2 weeks, but not now...

Looks grey!

 

[peepblessed]

Does anyone know of silkie breeders in San Jose area in CA? And also, what are your experiences with buying eggs off of eBay?

I have gotten shipped eggs from this lady in Madera, CA. http://debsbirds.com/ It would be a short trip for them and they are excellent quality. I had a great hatch from my one ebay purchase and zero from another.

 

[mnferalkitty]

Are these your first silkies? You will love having them!! Is that ET in your avatar??

Yep first silkies

LOL not quite ET but close, I seem to have a soft spot for hairless animals, one of my dogs is hairless too and the closest thing to a naked chicken I could find was the turken so I got 4 pullets

 

[BackyardBreeder]

The one color I really want is buff. It would be nice to have B/B/S, Partridge and white.

 

[SilverSilkie]

Having great fun with my new chicks today. These two are so fun to watch I took them out for a photo shoot (porcelain & lav).

These look very promising chicks peepblessed, but why you call them porcelain & lav ?
You can see the dorsal stripes so they have the Partridge (eb/eb) groundcolor one based on gold and the other on Silver both have the double doses of lavender. the one with "cream" probably a male, the silverish probably a female. These are as "Porcelain" (gold and Silver) should show the one day pattern.

 

[peepblessed]

These look very promising chicks peepblessed, but why you call them porcelain & lav ?
You can see the dorsal stripes so they have the Partridge (eb/eb) groundcolor one based on gold and the other on Silver both have the double doses of lavender. the one with "cream" probably a male, the silverish probably a female. These are as "Porcelain" (gold and Silver) should show the one day pattern.

I don't know, Danny, but many of the lavender chicks here have strips. I have wondered why that is (I suspected there was some eb/eb and porcelain is a temporary name for a project color here in the US. I think there hasn't been agreement on what to call the color. This is a color made by breeding lav to buff and back again to buff. Here is a picture of a mature girl and is the color I'm looking for. I am just enjoying the color and will let others decide what to call it! The lav chick was definitely born with a gold cast and will work out great in my "porcelain" pen.
This girl belongs to the breeder I got the eggs from.

 

[SilverSilkie]

I don't know, Danny, but many of the lavender chicks here have strips. I have wondered why that is (I suspected there was some eb/eb and porcelain is a temporary name for a project color here in the US. I think there hasn't been agreement on what to call the color. This is a color made by breeding lav to buff and back again to buff. Here is a picture of a mature girl and is the color I'm looking for. I am just enjoying the color and will let others decide what to call it! The lav chick was definitely born with a gold cast and will work out great in my "porcelain" pen.
This girl belongs to the breeder I got the eggs from.

Very nice type of hen. The coloration should have more gray-pearl instead of whitish in my opinion. This hen is a wheaten based (eWh/eWh) which not have much black-pigment and therefor less gray-pearl.

This is a eWh chick


This is a eb chick :


You can see the eWh have less dorsal stripes than the eb.
The eWh have also less black than the eb.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Peepblessed, are your chicks Catdance origin? Do her porcelains carry double doses of lavender? These are my Catdance chicks .... porcelain on the left, lavender next to it



This is the porcelain at 7 weeks (and acting VERY male) ....