Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I wouldn't call grey a project...it's been a recognised variety since 1996.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It is incompletely dominant, meaning that birds with only one copy display intermediate between those with two and those with none.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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No, not co-dominant, incompletely dominant. Comb genes are the only genes thought to be co-dominant in chickens.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Cull means removing from the breeding stock. As said, there are lots of ways to cull. This evening a neighbor-girl and her parents are coming over to look at some of my birds--what they want are sizzles, and I have a number that for one reason or other don't make the grade. And for me, a sizzle has to be near perfect or somehow unusual for me to keep. So in a few minutes I am going out to the coops to pull out all the sizzles and band the ones she can choose between. I routinely let extra roos patrol the yard on pest patrol. Unfortunately, not all make the grade for that--some of them fight each other too much, and thus get to spend time incarcerated.

 

[TK Poultry]

I have my eye on a cockerel and a hen (of older stock) that I want to get rid of but I'm holding on to her for a little while longer. But the cockerel is something I'm really wanting to maybe get rid of. I just wanted to know at what age can a Silkie be fully evaluated? I just plan on selling any I get rid of locally.

 

[laughingdog]

pardon (especially since looking for some eggs or pair of what some consider boring, as just dont enjoy the Q-tip look as much as the old time simple kind..

if you do not cull undesirables and extras, dont you end up flooding market with substandard birds? besides they were originally used for food, as specialty, delicacy, and medicinal.

so wouldnt flooding market with culls etc, be lowering or even raising prices of silkies?

im an amature here still so i may need hand holding as explinations for certain things i see coming up.

 

[Teresaann24]

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Some people don't breed they like them as broodies or something pretty to look at. I know some who like them for their eggs. Yes their eggs are tiny but have you read how good they are for you? My kids love eating our silkie eggs for breakfast.

 

[laughingdog]

yes, i was interested as broody, and oddity to cuddle and look at like living art. never even thought of eggs, i guess, and never saw any even (any pics of them with or without hens, and compared to other egg types and sizes?).. wasnt ment as jab, just seen alot of high priced non proven what most call high quality. or is the price based on the low reproduction/fertilization, hatch, and survival rate (see alot with bad results keeping alive)?

 

[laughingdog]

then again so many around.. so confused slightly.

 

[Beth G.]

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I guess if you don't own them or breed them its hard to understand what one is trying to achieve from a showing standpoint. I honestly don't see how anyone could eat a silkie, and I hunt for food. Once you've owned one and see a Show Quality vrs. A Pet Quality. You might understand

. I do not mean my opinion to sound negative but, I take showing and breeding my silkies seriously as many others and find it offensive to hear one talk about them as food!