Silkie thread!

[HuffleClaw]

Ellen was feeling rather photogenic today

 

[NNYchick]

Hey guys, I have a question for y’all silkie breeders. I have been looking online everywhere for how to breed a silver partridge silkie, as in what two colors you have to breed together to get one and what percentage of chicks would be silver partridge. Except there is absolutely nothing online giving me any information. Does anyone here have any idea about how to get one?

I love this color Silver partridge is “gray variety” in the standard, even though it looks like a silver partridge. True gray should come from gray to gray breeding and this will give you proper gray coloring. That said I have gotten a few really nice gray from my silver gene white hen with my black rooster with silver leakage from paint breeding, she is the white in the picture. Unfortunately I sold them before I realized what I had. Next year I plan to get some from a breeder, I was going to get some this year but that breeder had a rooster with a lot of red leakage so I passed.

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[NNYchick]

Well poor Floof and Poof... I'm trying to get them outside, instead of in the basement rubbermaid tub and my momma hen is just a bully to them currently... She let them make a cuddle pile last night then this morning was just like nope, not night no love.

As an aside I know Floof is boy colored like REALLY boy colored. But comb growth... when does that start? I know it can vary, but I know my little buff roo had a sizable comb at 12 weeks. This one has 0 comb growth so far... does comb growth vary by color?

*photos of them with momma Bluebelle and them on their perch AWAY from momma Bluebelle.

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Those chicks are too young to be in the flock and not have a heat source or a broody hen to protect them. I move my 1 week old chicks out of the house brooder and into a section off area of the coop with mama heat pad and own food and water. I use a wire dog pen, the chicks can get away from bullying but the bigger chickens can’t get in or keep them from the feed.

 

[TwoChicksChix]

I love this color Silver partridge is “gray variety” in the standard, even though it looks like a silver partridge. True gray should come from gray to gray breeding and this will give you proper gray coloring. That said I have gotten a few really nice gray from my silver gene white hen with my black rooster with silver leakage from paint breeding, she is the white in the picture. Unfortunately I sold them before I realized what I had. Next year I plan to get some from a breeder, I was going to get some this year but that breeder had a rooster with a lot of red leakage so I passed.
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But how do you get the grey coloring? Do you just have to buy grey chicks? And is there a way to be sure that you are going to get silver partridges from the breeding, or is it all guesswork?

Sorry I have so many questions, I just haven’t been able to find any information anywhere else on them at all.

 

[Hinotori]

The best way is to buy grey chicks from someone. Grey is silver partridge in the silkie standard. Same color, different name.

 

[NNYchick]

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But how do you get the grey coloring? Do you just have to buy grey chicks? And is there a way to be sure that you are going to get silver partridges from the breeding, or is it all guesswork?

Sorry I have so many questions, I just haven’t been able to find any information anywhere else on them at all.

Yes you have to find a breeder that is breeding gray Silkies and buy chicks or eggs to get that variety.

 

[Katlinalyssa]

When will her tail feathers get super fluffy? And is having blue on the tips of her feathers a normal thing for a black silkie?

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

I hope someone can answer this for me. Last year I bought 2 satins and 2 silkies from a breeder who said they have the potential to give the frizzled gene to future hatches. One of the silkies is a rooster. If that rooster was breeding with the one of the other 3 potential frizzle gene passers, could we end up with a frazzle? Or do you just get a frazzle if both parents are frizzles?

 

[LynnaePB]

I hope someone can answer this for me. Last year I bought 2 satins and 2 silkies from a breeder who said they have the potential to give the frizzled gene to future hatches. One of the silkies is a rooster. If that rooster was breeding with the one of the other 3 potential frizzle gene passers, could we end up with a frazzle? Or do you just get a frazzle if both parents are frizzles?

It is my understanding that the frizzle gene is dominant so if your satins and silkies are carrying the frizzle gene you will be able to tell just by looking at them. It should be really obvious in the satins but it can be a little less obvious in the silkies, you should still see some curl to some of the feathers though. If you breed two that are frizzled together you'd get around 25% frazzled, 50% frizzled, and 25% non frizzled (since you'd get some frazzled babies from that pairing two frizzled shouldn't be bred together). If you breed one that is frizzled to one that isn't you'll get 50% frizzled and 50% non frizzled.

It sounds like none of yours actually have frizzled feathers? If that is the case you won't be able to get any frizzled babies from breeding them together. If the breeder sold them as very young chicks before they had feathers it would make sense that they told you they might have the potential to give frizzled babies since you can't tell if they will be frizzled or not until they start getting their feathers. I could be wrong, I've never bred frizzles before but I have done some research, and every source I saw said that the frizzle gene is dominant!

 

[NNYchick]

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When will her tail feathers get super fluffy? And is having blue on the tips of her feathers a normal thing for a black silkie?

Fluffy cushion is genetics it may get fluffier, how old? I’m thinking that is a cockerel as he has a lot of hard feathers in the tail. I think what you are referring to is the beetle green sheen it kinda looks like a rainbow of green,blue, and teal when the sun hits the feather that is normal for blacks to have. I don’t have a good picture of it because it’s hard to photograph unless the sun is hitting it a certain way.