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Well my silkies are just pets not for showing and if I do breed them then I will but not for money for myself or for friends who know that they aren't show quaility. Just makes me mad that some people on here can be right down rude and that's not cool at all. When I seek someone's advice on what color my chicks are. and I get well they aren't 100% silkie when in fact that they are. It's not cool to have your birds judged so harshly like a lot of you do on here , just because a lot of us cannot afford expensive sQ birds like a lot of you can.. I've had some HQ birds that were a lot better than any SQ bird I've ever seen before. I think what makes us so mad is that some people on here just don't care about our feelings and there's no reason for anyone to be rude to anyone on here. Just because we don't know what color we will get or we don't understand this or that we're learning just like everyone else. Some of us haven't been breeding that long or have had chickens that long. Or we want to know what color we'll get cause we might want to sell the chicks.
No one can read the mind of a poster to know what they are looking for as feedback. If you ask "what colour is it," then I would expect answers that say what colour it is or to say it is a mixed colour. And if the answer is "mixed colour" you should not be hurt or angry that someone did not express love and adoration for your bird--you asked for and were given information. You did not ask for validation for your feelings for your bird.
If you ask "what do you think of my birds," I would expect people to critique them based upon their experience with the breed--some will give you minute detail such as a wing set being too loose or lacking to too much crest, too long a back, etc. Some of those comments may be a good assessment from the perspective of the standard, and others may not be. But if you did not want to hear people's assessments, then you need to phrase your request better;
there are also people who DO want a serious critique, and being told "he's so cute" does nothing to help them.
No one here is trying to be rude, and reading rudeness into the answers doesn't make sense. It is also not rude to say that a bird does not look like it is 100% silkie. Regardless of YOU knowing its background, the people you are asking DO NOT unless you tell them. One of the birds in the photo that started this discussion looks to have non-silkied wings. Now the photo is not the best, so it could simply be a poor photo, but the poster chose that photo, and made no comments such as "the wings look wring here, but they readlly are silkied--this was just the best photo I could find" or something similar. If the bird is non-silkied, he has non-silkie ancestry somewhere in his past. It happens.
Online writing--heck ANY writing-- is far different than conversation, where facial expression, body language, voice inflection, word spacing, etc. can all give meaning that simply is not present in printed words.
Yes!! ha! Any times I've posted pictures, I usually DO want a harsh critique of my birds, because I WANT to know their faults! It helps me learn! If someone tells me 'hey, they're cute'... I'm still left in the dark with my original question and that can be very frustrating too!
But good point here-- I guess be VERY specific about what you are looking for in an answer.
