Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

I decided to check Stormey's 1st 2 eggs for fertility and eat them. They tasted great! Not sure about fertility. Here's a pic of the 1st egg (I broke the yolk, darn it). The 2nd egg had no markings at all. I tried to roll the yolk around to make sure it wasn't on the other side but didn't see anything.

1st egg. Fertile? I don't see the ring around the dot.

The dark red spot is a meat/blood spot. What you are looking for is at the five oclock position from the meat spot. And I see a ring.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: I'm not the person to ask about dealing with leg issues; I rarely have any luck unless the bird is older.

 

[farmer boy]

Blue must be inherited from one or the other parent, and unless the parent is white or completely ground colour (self (solid) silver, red or buff), it WILL show. Blue is a gene that causes black pigment to be diluted (although sometimes only slightly--and it can be difficult to know that the bird is blue rather than black). Anyways, assuming that black is black and not dark blue, you cannot get blue offspring from the black X silver partridge (unless the silver partridge is also blue). To get splash, both parents must have blue.

Can you show us what you mean by a crooked beak? I never recommend breeding crossbeaked birds. It is not always genetic, but it can be, and is a bad trait to pass on.

I would not worry about breeding a broken toed bird or one with any fault caused by obvious injury.

Can you post a photo of the bird with the tilt in her neck...do you mean she has had crook/wry neck, and has lingering effects?

the silver partridge and black hen has a blue mother and the black hen has recessive white gene in her and there father was buff/partridge .. they had different mothers ... ask aoxa she knows more about the blue hen with the tilt in her neck .. i got them from her .. its not genetic or anything since she was with a breeder and no chicks had a tilt in her neck ... the silver partridge developed the crooked beck when he got older i don't know if he got it from fighting with my bigger rooster or not ... i will tomorrow since it is dark right now for me ... my black hen is broody right now she is on 4 of her eggs and one of the blue hens eggs .. they breed freely so the smutty bugg breeds with the black and blue hen and then the silver partridge tries to mate with both but hes not as good as it .. but if my black hen and smutty buff have chicks will i have more of a chance to get partridge since she has a buff/partridge father ?? i think the black hen is black because i looked up close and it looks black and the blue hen looks more bluer then the black hen .. i will try to get better pics of them tomorrow .. my black hen is sharing a brood of eggs with another smaller hen

 

[chickeneer45]

Yes I am

I don't want to ship these little guys I think that would be really hard on them. Where are you located?

Oh that stinks! I am in Virginia Let me know if you change your mind

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Oh that stinks! I am in Virginia Let me know if you change your mind

I'm not sure where you are, but I'm close to Charlottesville and I have chicks for sale

 

[chickeneer45]

That's great! I live in Mechanicsville; just north of Richmond. What colors do you have?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: I'm thinking that you are not really sure of what genes your birds do and do not have...that you simply do not have a good understanding of genetics. And that is okay. It is complicated. Offspring do not always show what they might pass on or what they have inherited. Many genetic faults are recessive, and do not show unless paired up with another bird carrying the same gene. Others are even more scarce, requiring a comination of genes, not just one.

A crooked beak is unlikely to have been acquired from birds fighting. They simply do not fight at the age that beak injury is likely (early chickhood).

 

[farmer boy]

I'm thinking that you are not really sure of what genes your birds do and do not have...that you simply do not have a good understanding of genetics. And that is okay. It is complicated. Offspring do not always show what they might pass on or what they have inherited. Many genetic faults are recessive, and do not show unless paired up with another bird carrying the same gene. Others are even more scarce, requiring a comination of genes, not just one.

A crooked beak is unlikely to have been acquired from birds fighting. They simply do not fight at the age that beak injury is likely (early chickhood).

yeah im not very good at the genetics thats why im asking so much because i want to know lol .. well he got the crooked beak thing when he was around 6 months old not when he was just a chick because i have a picture of him when he was younger then 6 months old and he didn't have a crooked beak ... see younger then 6 months but beak was straight but his head is turned a little

here you can sorta see it but not really

this is an angle shot but i wasn't close enough .. also when he was younger to show

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

That's great! I live in Mechanicsville; just north of Richmond. What colors do you have?

The chicks we're supposed to be porcelain, but I'm not sure my porcelain rooster was actually the color he was supposed to be (some chicks came out partridge, others look porcelain). Anyway, so that rooster is gone and his chicks are for sale as well. They're super fluffy and cute tho. I also have a few of my project Sizzles for sale, obviously they're not perfect either but, they're super cute too

 

[chickeneer45]

Can you post some pics of your silkie chicks?