Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

Here are some more pictures. The last two chicks were fathered by some of my large fowl boys. (poor hen!) You can see the middle chick ended up sired by a barred plymouth rock. It looks blue barred. Very strange. Last one here is fathered by a naked neck rooster, as he is the only boy I have who carries dominant white (which this chick shows - black dots on back too).

First chick is first generation sizzle x silkie. It does appear to be a frizzled silkie and not a second generation sizzle. Let me know what you think on that theory

Silkie frizzled feathers make a frizzled silkie; non-silkie frizzled feathers (but all other silkie features) make a sizzle.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Sounds like she has a brain injury silkies are prone to head injuries due to their large crest.

No. Has nothing to do with their crest size. It has to do with the vaulted skull, and cerebral hernia.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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GREAT pictures, all of them!! These two are my favorites. How did you come up with these angles? You must have been crawling on the floor or you had the chicks somewhere on your eye level? I love it.


That's what I'd like to know also.

They were on a surface, and I was floor level Plus I have an amazing camera. I love it <3

Thank you for the compliments!!

This is my favorite shot! I just think they are adorable!!!

Thank you!

Sanna, love your website. Looks really nice!
You can see mine in my signature. I've been working on it for a couple months now on and off. Right now I'm focusing on a facebook page as well. Started that up 1 1/2 weeks ago and already have almost 250 likes. It's awesome!

I fell down the stairs on the way to the barn today. I HATE winter. My neck is killing me now. Hopefully it doesn't last.
OH NO! Aoxa has crookneck! Get that Vitamin E and selenium! (just kidding, but take care and I hope you feel better soon).

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: WOW!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I hatched out some silkies and I have a question about color...

One hatched out yellow, one hatched out white. I know most white chickens hatch yellow, and it seems like this yellow chick is starting to feather out white or cream even (they're about a month old now, I know it's still pretty early.)
Whats the difference? Why would one hatch white, and the other hatch yellow?

I believe the white chick's egg was labeled white. I believe the others were labeled bbs. (I do have one buff that was labeled as such on the egg.) So is it possible for a bbs pen to hatch out a ...whatever this yellow (or the white one, if the yellow was actually the white labeled egg) chick will turn into?
I'm assuming they will both be white... but perhaps the yellow one would be almost a cream, or light buff.(porcelain?) Possible?

Thanks

White will be white with silver gene (or possibly a very dilute splash); yellow will be white carrying the gold gene.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: The skull is not soft. If the bird has a vaulted skull, it will have a large hole or holes when the bird is young. As the bird ages, bone will grow to cover all or most of the hole. If the skull is not vaulted, there is unlikely to be any hole.

 

[Feathersprings]

For instance, I am going to have a BBS pen and a Buff/Porcelain Pen. From what I have read you can put a Buff over a Porcelain to get more of the Buff coloring in the Porcelains

Yes, there are a lot of "project" colors you can work on Porcelains can be beautiful! Blue Partridge would be another with partridge and blue. These are colors that you should actually be working on though rather than just breeding two non standard colors together and hoping for something good It is good to have a goal when you are breeding. Like you might want more buff in your porcelains and I would want very pastel porcelains so would go a different route. They can be fun projects. I decided to stick to standard colors for now and down the road I might get to a point where I want something to work on color wise.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

does this work with silkies or just LF?

It is breed specific; basically you must breed the trait into your birds.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Splash is two copies of the blue gene; blue is one copy and black has no copies. My splash have mostly hatched with silvery down, although some have been blue and yellow. Blues tend to be a bit more "blue." Whites hatch white or silvery if they are silver gene and yellow if they are gold gene.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

For instance, I am going to have a BBS pen and a Buff/Porcelain Pen. From what I have read you can put a Buff over a Porcelain to get more of the Buff coloring in the Porcelains

Yes, there are a lot of "project" colors you can work on  Porcelains can be beautiful! Blue Partridge would be another with partridge and blue. These are colors that you should actually be working on though rather than just breeding two non standard colors together and hoping for something good  It is good to have a goal when you are breeding.  Like  you might want more buff in your porcelains and I would want very pastel porcelains so would go a different route. They can be fun projects. I decided to stick to standard colors for now and down the road I might get to a point where I want something to work on color wise. 

That is why I am gonna do two pens. The BBS for standard and the porcelain/ buff pen for project with the porcelain. I will also be able to have both, I have buff and a porcelain pullets. Just need a buff rooster later. Since I don't want to work with whites, my white pullet is going to be an incubator/pet. I have a blue cockerel and black pullet. Actually they are my wife's Silkies, but I am in charge of care and breeding.