Silkie thread!

[corahq]

He is a smooth silkie. Both parents were silkies. ( :

 

[silkiecuddles]

New grow out pic's of a few of my current favorite kids. Photo bomb by a squashy face baby. I love the new white grow outs. ~ Buff is new in my pens. Loving these two little ones. Even with squash face. ~ One of the Porcelain kids working on their second squash. ~ This Cuckoo chick is the rarest color in my flock. So pretty. Whether it is female or male, it will go into an all black pen.

They are so cute! And the one with its head in the squash

 

[Shadow920]

i've never had trouble with DE although my Japanese Bantam is like a magnet for mites and i have had to etreat him before. currently he is blissfully mite free but spring had his mite so bad that he had a bright red patch below his tail that you could see at a distance. is that caused by mites? he doesn't have it now and he has no mites. anybody else have that problem?

 

[Shadow920]

lol. they look my Banty chicks after their first tomato. the red juice stayed on their little heads so long i couldn't figure out what was natural color and what was tomato.

 

[Fancychooklady]

New grow out pic's of a few of my current favorite kids. Photo bomb by a squashy face baby. I love the new white grow outs. ~ Buff is new in my pens. Loving these two little ones. Even with squash face. ~ One of the Porcelain kids working on their second squash. ~ This Cuckoo chick is the rarest color in my flock. So pretty. Whether it is female or male, it will go into an all black pen.

Lovely.

 

[QueenMisha]

New grow out pic's of a few of my current favorite kids. Photo bomb by a squashy face baby. I love the new white grow outs. ~ Buff is new in my pens. Loving these two little ones. Even with squash face. ~ One of the Porcelain kids working on their second squash. ~ This Cuckoo chick is the rarest color in my flock. So pretty. Whether it is female or male, it will go into an all black pen.

Gorgeous birds! I'd bet your Cuckoo is female. Since the Barring gene messes with dark skin color the boys seem to get bright red combs really early. I have two Cuckoo Sizzles in my brooder right now, same size as yours, and I'm like 90% sure they are both cockerels - gigantic red combs already!

 

[QueenMisha]

He is a smooth silkie. Both parents were silkies. ( :

As far as I know that is impossible. The Silkie gene is recessive, you could never get a smooth feather chick from two Silkied parents. Unless you mean one of the parents was also a Smooth Silkie?

 

[msqueen]

I messaged the previous owner/breeder and that is what he said. Unless I misunderstood and he meant one was smooth and the other was not.

 

[Fancychooklady]

As far as I know that is impossible. The Silkie gene is recessive, you could never get a smooth feather chick from two Silkied parents. Unless you mean one of the parents was also a Smooth Silkie?

I have had 2 smooth silkies hatch from Silkie parents . Both were pure white and crested.

 

[QueenMisha]

I have had 2 smooth silkies hatch from Silkie parents . Both were pure white and crested.

Interesting. That shouldn't be possible, any clue as to the genetics behind it?