Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Looks more like a grey? Possibly with blue? Or it could be the photo or my computer.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It took me years; and I slowly learned one little bit at a time. The more I knew, though, the faster I learned new things.

 

[kerroppi76]

I just these girls today! They hatched Wed past....

Houdini

Twitch

Raven

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Creeper, is its own gene (Japanese have it), so lets call it recessive, not creaper.

Yellow skin is recessive. However, it is a DIFFERENT gene than the gene that causes black skin (Fm), and the gene that inhibits or allows melanin in the leg skin (Id). Id is sex-linked, and incompletely dominant. Meaning that two copies of the gene are better at inhibiting or allowing) dermal melanin that is one copy. Plumage colour also affects leg colour.

http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/mutations2.html#gen_mut_leg has a good discussion.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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~ Aspen

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Or the Moorish people who held parts of Spain during the middle ages.

 

[chickendales]

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u breed show girl to showgirl and a in a silkie for type every feuw generations

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Here is a related site that is still up: http://sites.google.com/site/zijdeh...des-poultry/louise-s-poultry/angela-s-poultry okay, found it: https://sites.google.com/site/zijdehoenders/

 

[laughingdog]

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u breed show girl to showgirl and a in a silkie for type every feuw generations

do silkies accidentally come out with more or less plumage than usual just necked neck variety bred in?

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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The color is called Morehead and is being worked on in Europe to be standardized.

I think it is Moor, not More. But I am not sure whether the penciling is a part of it; it's been awhile since I looked at the sites (and photos) telling about it.

According to the European website
https://sites.google.com/site/zijde...out-chicken-color-genetics-heritage/moreheads

They call it Morehead, so since these breeders are working with this color & have coined the phrase, I just used their spelling.