Like all chickens they vary in personality but all of my silkies are easy to handle. I have a few that are under my feet all the time. I have to watch where I step lol! I have others that are friendly but go about their business more. I have found that gentle handling and feeing lots of little goodies make most of them enjoy the attention
There are are a lot of colors lol! And after you get them you will want a different color too!!! I still do that! I have more blacks than other colors but love them all. This is Drucilla, one of my young black girls. While I find them easy to catch and pick up most of mine get more friendly ( like under you feet all the time) as they mature. When they are very young my roosters are the sweetest.
Porcelain is a project color and birds vary considerably. The name "porcelain" will not be the final name for the color when and if it becomes recognized. Self-blue cream is popular with judges and porcelain are often shown under that name. Your girls are very beautiful but a pale shade of buff is preferred. They might benefit from another cross to self-blue (lavender).Howdy. Both of these pullets are porcelain- are either of them isabelle (spell?) The popcorn salt color one has a tinsy bit of lavender that you can't see in the pic. Not much, tho.
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Silkies are definitely one of the easiest breeds to tame though there are a few that don't fit the mold.
Well, I said two copies because each bird has a pair of genes - one from each parent. If they get a copy from each parent then they have two copies. If they get it from only one parent then they have one copy (the other is "not lavender"). Recessive genes are only supposed to express when there are two copies. I think there may be exceptions - but that only makes it more confusing.
I think chicken genetics are more confusing in some ways than other genetics. I am still trying to learn them and I get things wrong because of that. What I was trying to say there is that they are two different genes - not the same gene. I recently learned a Paint bird is a bird with the Dominant White gene (can be only one copy and it works (think like a bucket of white paint dumped over a black bird - it didn't get everywhere - that's leakage and your black feathers)), and a White bird (in Silkies) is a bird with two copies of recessive white, and it has to have two copies to be White.
Oh, and I have seen that one gene can be "dominant" in expression over another gene (phenotype - what you see when looking at the bird). There is a lady who has both lavender and recessive white in her birds. She didn't know she had recessive white, she is breeding for lavender. If the bird gets two copies of both (because she is breeding lavender to lavender we know they have two copies of lavender) she gets a White bird. So recessive white shows in expression over lavender. That's what I was meaning - I wasn't sure if you had a bird with two copies of Blue ("splash") and two copies of lavender which color it would show. It might be a splash with lavender splotches?
I believe recessive white is dominant in expression over ever other color gene? Perhaps it is like recessive white is a paint stripper - it takes off all the paint the other genes could possibly put on with two coats - so nothing is there and the bird is White. Its not strong enough to strip the color with one coat, has to be double strength. Just like lavender, double strength or it won't show.
I don't know if that is clear as mud to you, I am still trying to find ways to know how to liken chicken genetics to something so I can related to it :/
Oh my, they're gorgeous!!Howdy. Both of these pullets are porcelain- are either of them isabelle (spell?) The popcorn salt color one has a tinsy bit of lavender that you can't see in the pic. Not much, tho.
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haha cute, my roo sounds different than yours, he sounds more like George of the jungle HAHA!
