Silkie thread!

[Sonoran Silkies]

sagersilkies :

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what do you want figured out? Those are cochin chicks - not silkies, those guys have the feathered yellow legs

Cute buggers! Where did you get them from?

I would belive u if i had some​

You mentioned a frizzle. My best guess is that it is all or partially cochin.

 

[sager:)silkies]

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what do you want figured out? Those are cochin chicks - not silkies, those guys have the feathered yellow legs

Cute buggers! Where did you get them from?

I'd say first one is cochin; 2nd is silkieX, probably crossed with cochin.

here is the link of the 2 that made the chicks

 

[mshuey1]

how long does anyone hold on to there silkies before you know there show. How old do you cull the ones you don't need. I have two black silkies that look to me PQ there 2 months old and there just getting there puff and have very little feathering on there toes. Should I wait to see how they turn out r sell them. Am working on SQ for March. thanks any input will help this newbie

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Not always...I have a silkie x white leghorn and he has yellow skin and 5 toes.

I'm guessing that the silkie parent was not pure silkie, or else was hatchery quality (where they often have incorrect traits such as not dark skin, single combs, wrong numbers of toes, etc.) Anyways, since the silkieXleghorn's skin is yellow, if the silkie parent had dark skin, it had only one copy of the Fm (fibromelanosis) gene that causes dark skin, and the silkieXleghorn inherited the fm+ (not fibromelanosis) allele.

 

[ki4got]

sagersilkies :

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I'd say first one is cochin; 2nd is silkieX, probably crossed with cochin.

here is the link of the 2 that made the chicks

you've got an assortment there, i also saw a sultan it looked like (white poof top with feathered feet?) or maybe a white silkie? didn't catch a good look...

don't bet the farm that someone isn't breeding someone else. my low man rooster, didn't think he'd bred anyone, but half the chicks that hatched this last batch were his. and your "cochin" pattern... cochin is a body type, they come in pactically ALL colors. what i could see it looked more like a the pattern found on my dark brahmas. (feathered feet, yellow skin, longer legs than a cochin). any feather footed breed can pass on feather feet. there are a number of genes that control that. the same with polydactyly (extra toes). so if it was crossed from a sultan or silkie both it could have extra toes and feathered feet. (but not always) my brahma cross chicks all had feathered feet, the sultan chicks sometimes had extra toes and feathered feet... with mixed breeds it's a toss what you might get.

and a frizzle is simply a feather type, not really a breed. if your roo is frizzle, then half the chicks he puts down are going to be frizzle also, regardless of what they're bred with.

silkies should have very dark skin (nearly black), 5 toes, and barb-less feathers. so your 4 toed yellow footed chick is NOT a silkie. no matter what the other half might be.

Sorry.

in the future when you're doing video, you might try filming them from a bit more distance. sometimes seeing how they stand and move can tell more about a bird than just the color pattern on a few feathers.

 

[workinnanie]

Is There Such A Thing As A Pure Silkie Frizzle?

 

[chikincrazee]

This is Barbie my son Codys white pullet , she won JR Reserve of Breed at the Silkie Nationals at Crossroads.

 

[poultrycrazy]

I am looking for a QUALITY black silkie pair!!! I figured this would be the place to ask

 

[sager:)silkies]

Thanks for all the help and next time i will try to

 

[Aria]

I want only PURE SILKIES....that is one reasn we have only SILKIES. No other breeds allowed on our Barn. I am a "purest" And I do not raise to show. I just love them and see no other reason to have other breeds.

When we had Call Ducks we started with many varieties....white, pastels, gray, and butterscotch.. WHAT I PROBLEM. Difficult to keep them separated. We decided only white Call Ducks. AND that worked out FINE. Regards, Aria