Silkie thread!

[destiny_56085]

On the 'porcelains'.... Just want to make it clear that mine were crop-outs from my splash pen. These are NOT the APA/ABA definition of porcelain: lavendar diluted mille fleur. These are the pastel cute little birds that alot of the silkie people call this color. On the ones I kept back, its not because I'm working with them as a project. My mom did chores for me over winter quite a bit while I was pregnant and wanted to have these around just to look at. They got left behind in my growout pen and then got thrown in my buff pen over winter since I didn't want to run another heated water bowl just for them. Now my other pens are being used for young stock. I accidentally incubated a few of their eggs along with my buffs. They gotta go! I'll probably just post mine on here since I don't have an account with BidBird.

If I get time this week, I'll bathe them up for real pics. I know they are broody right now and not going to cooperate. I also am dealing with a 5 week old real baby that claims most of my time and other silkie babies all over my house. I do have some old pics on my computer.... These were taken at roughly 6-7 months of age and they have filled out alot since. Both of these girls will be a year in either June/July.

excuse that ugly miscolored cockerel in this one and all the other buffs...

the flash really made the red look darker than it really is here....

this is what they looked like as babies...

 

[ultasol]

You know, I asked Karen Larsen if she had bred hers to lavender to check and see if hers had a dilute gene, and she hadn't. All of her porcelains are from porcelain on porcelain birds, and they look just like your birds and the porcelains I have from you. It is my opinion that porcelains need to be denoted by 'project bird' like certain colors are in other breed.s First, porcelain has an APA/ABA definition, and I haven't seen a porcelain silkie yet that meets it (although I know Sonoran was working on breeding in the needed spangling), second I think many of the birds ebing called porcelain don't carry a dilute, and are more of a pastel color. They remind me of the soft colors of pastel calls or saxony sucks.

My two cents.

 

[ultasol]

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I've got a couple porcelains I've had for a year from AmyJo Piehl. I'm going to be selling them soon,.. too many colors and no porcelain cock/cockerel. They're pretty birds, but I've got blue/splash, black, white, buff and lavenders to contend with in silkies. Plate is full!

It's the time of year to clear out the nice but not necessary birds as the babies grow!

Darn it, wish they would have been available for the swap. I have a porcelain cockerel and two pullets. I would have been interested. I'd love to see pics! I don't know when I'll be heading up that way again, twice in two weeks was enough for a while.

My first silkie eggs are going on lock down today. (shipped eggs) My first silkie pair has laid 3 eggs. I'm keeping them cool hoping my incubator will free up or she'll go broody soon.

Julie

I didn't go to the swap. Too much going on with school... I also got ill after the show- I was really really overtired. They're really pretty porcelains, and very typy... very typey. All trimmed up from the breeding pen still and out of condition, but need to make room. Babies coming out the ears.

 

[ultasol]

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Dunno,.. maybe one here one bidbird. I prefer bidbird.

 

[destiny_56085]

In light of Easter yesterday, I just wanted to share a photo that someone sent me. This lady lives downtown in the Twin Cities and gets a few pullets from me every now and then just for pets. I think they get spoiled rotten....

 

[destiny_56085]

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Definitely agree... I don't think they breed true enough to ever get a standard going for them though. Those accidental chicks from them were all over the chart in color. All were pretty much given away at local swaps too.

Just for the heck of it, I showed those 2 pullets last fall. Under Eric Kutch we put Blue Fawn and at the MN State show we put porcelain. They are all still AOV in my opinion....

 

[ultasol]

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Definitely agree... I don't think they breed true enough to ever get a standard going for them though. Those accidental chicks from them were all over the chart in color. All were pretty much given away at local swaps too.

Just for the heck of it, I showed those 2 pullets last fall. Under Eric Kutch we put Blue Fawn and at the MN State show we put porcelain. They are all still AOV in my opinion....

Wow,..holy typos in my post. I meant saxony DUCKS. I plead the fifth as to if they suck or not.

 

[destiny_56085]

LMAO!!! I'm so sleep deprived that I didn't even notice.

 

[NewToFarming]

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OMG! That is so cute! It sure looks like they get spoiled!!

 

[AshleyGray]

I have three silkies, one roo is white, the other a bearded blue splash. My hen is partridge. What colors can i expect?

My only roos are the silkies, i also have a RIR, Polish, and an Americauna, a black silkie cross. Im thinking very interesting babies!

I plan on letting my silkie hen go broody later in the year, it will be my first time not using a incubator, im really excited!