Silkie thread!

[peepblessed]

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) ....

I think she breeds for double dose of lav but if you get eggs from a project pen you could end up with one dose. I have two 8 wks old. I will post pictures as soon as I take some. Here they are as babies and also at 6 wks.


The one on the left is obviously a male. Has some red in it's comb already.

The male has lost almost all of the creme color now and looks more like a splash. Fun to see what happens!

 

[SilverSilkie]

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) ....

BarnGoddes look what I wrote in your picture. This chick not show the lav/lav dilution because the black-pigment is not diluted to gray-pearl and the red-pigment is not diluted to cream.
Seeing the chick on day pattern and now on 7 weeks I should say it is a Bl/Bl on a wheaten or/and partridge groundcolor.

Both Blue and lavender are diluters, Blue is Dominant so it expres with 1 doses (Bl/bl+) and that is called Blue with 2 doses (Bl/Bl) it's called Splash. Lavender is recessive so this can only express in double doses (lav/lav).
Blue dilute only black-pigment and change nothing to the red-pigment. Lavender dilute black- and red-pigment at the same time.

"Porcelain" is a hobbyname which is originally used for a millefleur pattern (mottled), in Italy they use the hobbyname "Porcellane" for a lavender millefleur pattern, this is a triocolor (white/black/gold) dilute by the gene lavender (lav/lav) into white/graypearl/cream. I suppose the confusion for the hobbyname comes from there.
You can call your chick "Porcelain" but genetically seen its a duocolor Splash.
The chick of Peepblesses can also be called "Porcelain" but geneticaaly seen its duocolor lavender.

 

[ThaiChick]

My husband got me silkies!

He's a keeper!

 

[peepblessed]

BarnGoddes look what I wrote in your picture. This chick not show the lav/lav dilution because the black-pigment is not diluted to gray-pearl and the red-pigment is not diluted to cream.
Seeing the chick on day pattern and now on 7 weeks I should say it is a Bl/Bl on a wheaten or/and partridge groundcolor.

Both Blue and lavender are diluters, Blue is Dominant so it expres with 1 doses (Bl/bl+) and that is called Blue with 2 doses (Bl/Bl) it's called Splash. Lavender is recessive so this can only express in double doses (lav/lav).
Blue dilute only black-pigment and change nothing to the red-pigment. Lavender dilute black- and red-pigment at the same time.

"Porcelain" is a hobbyname which is originally used for a millefleur pattern (mottled), in Italy they use the hobbyname "Porcellane" for a lavender millefleur pattern, this is a triocolor (white/black/gold) dilute by the gene lavender (lav/lav) into white/graypearl/cream. I suppose the confusion for the hobbyname comes from there.
You can call your chick "Porcelain" but genetically seen its a duocolor Splash.
The chick of Peepblesses can also be called "Porcelain" but geneticaaly seen its duocolor lavender.

This chick is a really neat color! It reminds me of Jessy's "Sherbert"!

 

[chisNchickens]

I have naked rats!

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

 

[peepblessed]

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

Have you seen the silkie "Showgirls"?

 

[TheIvoryKitty]

Welp, thought I'd share an angry silkie, because I've sure never seen her this way before!!! (She's broody and I locked her out of the hen house - Mwahahahahaha!

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Showing us that if you remove a broody hen from her nest box, you are no longer friends. 0.0

 

[Whittni]

Haha she looks pretty mad. You should let her set a couple eggs.

 

[peepblessed]

Welp, thought I'd share an angry silkie, because I've sure never seen her this way before!!! (She's broody and I locked her out of the hen house - Mwahahahahaha!

)







Showing us that if you remove a broody hen from her nest box, you are no longer friends. 0.0

Hahaha!!

 

[TheIvoryKitty]

Haha she looks pretty mad. You should let her set a couple eggs.

Heck no! I don't want any more chickens than I've got! lol.