Silkie thread!

[mama2my4]

That is odd.... I live in the mountains and it gets down to 10 degrees and my silkies do fine. I do keep them out of the rain and snow though.

Yep, I am much more concerned about heat than cold and we are in the PA mountains so it gets COLD here!

 

[peepblessed]

Indeed Peepblessed these 2 have the lavender dilution (lav/lav),
On the first one you can see the black-pigment is diluted to pearl-gray and you can see also it is not an unicolor lavender bird. With becoming older you well see the crest feathers will become intensiver graypearl colored.
On the second one you can see the red-pigment is diluted to cream and also clear to see is not an unicolor lavender bird. Same here for the crest intensivity.
These are both very subtile colored birds. When you like subtile tinges this are the one you need ;-) Wait until after there complete molting they will become sublime !

The lighter one does have some cream color but the flash washes it out. Oddly they were both pale buff chipmonks at birth. I am guessing the buff will reappear with change of feathering especially since it is a male.

 

[peepblessed]

On the outside (= phenotype) you can NOT see a difference between a chicken with zero doses lavender "Lav+/Lav+" (the first hen and rooster on the picture) or a single doses lavender "Lav+/lav" (the second hen and rooster on the picture). The effect is only visuble in a double doses "lav/lav" (the third hen and rooster on the picture).

Awesome! I'm saving this!!

 

[peepblessed]

Peep. how do you keep their feet clean??

I have them on coarse sand which keeps their feet feathering looking good on the top. Now underneath is not perfect but it doesn't build up.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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So is this true porcelain? Is porcelain a colour that "splits" like lavender? (I'm still trying to understand what porcelain actually is!!)

 

[TheIvoryKitty]

That is odd.... I live in the mountains and it gets down to 10 degrees and my silkies do fine. I do keep them out of the rain and snow though.

Really? Wow I live in California so it barely gets hot or cold here, and when its chilly at all my little Choco goes around chit-chattering and huddles up like shes freezing.

Must just be immensely spoiled.

 

[SilverSilkie]

So is this true porcelain? Is porcelain a colour that "splits" like lavender? (I'm still trying to understand what porcelain actually is!!)

The real "Porcelain" is an other word for the millefiori pattern, in genetics "eb/eb s+/s+ *s+/- Co/Co mo/mo" as you can see it not contain lavender (lav/lav) nor Splash (Bl/Bl).

Started from Silkies Buff with double doses lavender are (wrongly) named in US the "Porcelain", they have complete different genotypes.
- eWh/eWh s+/s+ * s+/- Co/Co Db/Db Mh/Mh Di/DI + lav/lav
- eWh/eb s+/s+ * s+/- Co/Co Db/Db Mh/Mh Di/DI + lav/lav
- eb/eb s+/s+ * s+/- Co/Co Db/Db Mh/Mh Di/DI + lav/lav

When you breed male birds X female bird with these genotypes they breed true, if not you have to count with the % as I described before.
So in the name is what you want to call them, in the genetic-code is what you need to breed them.

 

[SilverSilkie]

Awesome! I'm saving this!!

This is only practicing the color-genetics ;-)

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Ahhhhh .... NOW it starts sinking in! Thank you!

And I do appreciate your patience .... (I even have the book, Sigrid's book. <sigh>)

(I know I sound "thick as a brick". Math has NEVER been my strong suit - especially probabilities which is what genetics seems to be all about! I'm a literal girl. I like it black and white - and I do find those colours SO much easier. Either they is or they ain't.

Simple!!

)

 

[lil mama]

Can u mix sikiies with the rest of your flock ??

My wyandottes follow my silkies around which is funny because they are so much bigger then the silkies. They also huddle in the "fluff pile" with the silkies instead of perching at night. I think its hilarious. So to answer you question yes!