Silkie thread!

[emvickrey]

I'd like to put a nice blue quad together. If I put some splash hens with a blue roo that would put out 50/50. Am I right? If thats the case I would have to say it is a b/s pen. I'm not sure but I thought at first I had a boy and a girl blacks but i'm thinking they may be 2 girls. The one I thought was a boy isn't showing any irridescent tail feathers like it loked like before it was beginning to show. I'll have to get some good pics of them both.

 

[racuda]

Yes Splash X Blue = 50/50 splash and blue. Maybe the blacks are dark blue, hence no iridescence?

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Is it just the lighting in the pics or does it have alot of silver in the hackles already present? If so that is a dq..... It has a nice crest coming in so far and nice wing placement. Really long through the back though. Cushion is kind of narrow and sparse right now (but that may change with age).

Sorry but this is probably a stupid question but what is dq. I know pq and sq and bq but dq?

DQ=disqualification

 

[destiny_56085]

The silver in the hackles is something you really want to steer away from in your breeding pen too. If there is just a tinge on an older bird, it is sometimes something you can excuse a lil due to decreasing testosterone levels with age. That much on a bird that young is not a good thing though. It is a trait that will haunt you for generations if you breed from it.

 

[destiny_56085]

On a good blue, the females should have darker heads and the males have darker heads, hackles, and saddle feathers.

Here's a blue cockerel that got culled because of the silver in the hackle....

 

[emvickrey]

I really need to replace my roo in my bbs pen. Here he is with the blue hen.

By emvickrey at 2011-03-20

 

[Debbi]

That roo looks like he has a "birchen" pattern going on there. Do Silkies carry the E^R gene??

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Some carry E^R, but not most. I cannot tell from the photo, but it looks to lack silver on the saddle and breast lacing.

 

[Debbi]

Thanks for that info. In the Marans world, he'd be a project in the making. He may be something he could hold onto and fully "birchenize" the progeny. Did I just say Birchenize???

I think the color pattern is interesting none the less.

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

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He's oh-so-pretty though!