Silkie thread!

[mama2my4]

SO I am wondering.... If I have a nice lighter blue bird could I breed that with a gray? What would be the outcome?

 

[aoxa]

Here is one of the first ever babies of my silkies. She/he is 7 weeks old here. The crest seems female to me, what do you think?

 

[GoldBarRanch]

Try to become Cuckoo Silkies with dark comb, skin, legs and eyes is the same as wanting a negro woman with blond hairs from herselve !

Cucula : here is a "genetic conflict" : the barring gene removes pigment from the skin, comb, eyes, legs etc ... while trying to produce the required dark pigment, typical for the Silkie, by the use of "Fm & id+"-genes. The barring gene always wins this genetic battle !

"Fm" : Fibromelanotic, expands the black pigment on fibres as skin, meat and bones
"id+" : dermal melanotic, causes pigment spots on the epidermis

Read more about the Silkie cuckoo coloration and inheritance on this my webpage :
http://sites.google.com/site/zijdehoenders/asa-newsletter-2-sparviero


I forgot to mention !
Concerning your Cuckoo rooster coloration :
You can see a (Silver) duckwing-mark in his wing-feathers so he have the Partridge ground-pattern (eb/eb) based on Silver (S/S) with the Barring gene (B/B)
About his qualities : he have to less crest, he is intermediar between bearded and non bearded, he have no blue earlobes, his tail feathers are to long ... there are better ones but also worse ones. Since you say he produced good quality chicks continue with these, that is what is selection all about ;-)

Thanks SilverSilkie I was hoping youd chime in your the best ! So are you saying he is Partridge and NOT Cuckoo ? Or was one of his parents partridge? His chicks have all been partridges and whites . And he does have faint blue ear lobes but one side shows more then the other.

 

[Fancy Feathers]

I like your BBS project birds type very much

I do them in the Partridge-version BBS

Maybe we can help eachother some day ;-)

These are gorgeous

 

[chicknfun]

Here is one of the first ever babies of my silkies. She/he is 7 weeks old here. The crest seems female to me, what do you think?

Using SilverSilkie's method, I am guessing hen.....Boy is she CUTE!!!

 

[chicknfun]

Quote: Let me just say........

 

[aoxa]

Using SilverSilkie's method, I am guessing hen.....Boy is she CUTE!!!

Why thank you!

I thought she was stinking adorable, and she was hatched by someone I donated eggs to (a daycare hatching experiment).

Now I have 18 of my own little fuzzy babies. None are old enough to look this cute though

 

[rilly10]

Just wanted to share some pics of my black silkies..please excuse the panting and droopy wings...it was 94 out

 

[Me & Jack]

Haven't posted in sooooo long. Here's my latest pretty girl at only 6 weeks of age!!

 

[rilly10]

And a few older pics just for fun