Silkie thread!

[peepblessed]

genetically speaking and visibly he is a splash partridge (thank you again SilverSilkie for confirming that) , but I don't think any breed has a recognized color variety by the name though I've seen other breeds with splash partridge... and if I were to show him that is what I will/would put on his card (AOV of course) would it ever be recognized? I doubt it. - or blue partridge would have to be recognized first maybe. I dunno!

Either way it will be a fun project!!

 

[peepblessed]

Interesting because I really did get 2 coloured just like this out of eggs marked "lavender". Is it not possible they are splits? (Carrying 1 copy of the lav gene?) My blues are either much darker (I have a couple that actually look black) or much lighter than this one or splash.

I don't mind if it's blue because blue is what I do but it did come out of an egg marked "lav" so I figured I needed to keep it separate from my blues .....

If you check with Karen she should know if it's a split or accidently mis-marked.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Yes, that is what my two look like. I also have one that appears to be expressing lavender (light - Lav/Lav) but it has crossbeak so I won't be breeding that one. I was under the impression lavender worked much better using at least one split; that 2 times double Lav/Lav (Lav/Lav X Lav/Lav) causes feather issues, thus, I wasn't the slightest bit concerned about dark chicks popping out of lavender eggs. I know with Ameraucanas, for example, it is a good idea to use a black split (Lav) in the lavender pen to keep the feather quality high and blacks (split) often pop out of those eggs. I figured my dark Silkie chicks meant that they were simply carrying only one copy of Lav. So I still refer to them as lavender even though they aren't expressing lavender. Perhaps my error is in how I am describing them?

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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I don't believe she mis-marked the eggs. She seemed pretty sure about what she was sending. The other thing that makes me confident, the lavenders are all smaller than the blue/splashes, significantly so. Plus, this "bluish" colour that popped out the lav eggs is the same but very different than anything that came out of her blue/splash eggs. I simply assumed they were splits ...

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I don't believe she mis-marked the eggs. She seemed pretty sure about what she was sending. The other thing that makes me confident, the lavenders are all smaller than the blue/splashes, significantly so. Plus, this "bluish" colour that popped out the lav eggs is the same but very different than anything that came out of her blue/splash eggs. I simply assumed they were splits ...

Yes it could be a Split for Lavender bird if it come from a lavender pen...

However I am confident the chick is expressing blue and will visibly be blue. So it is a Blue split for lavender

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Don;t try to learn it all at once. Start with one gene and learn its alleles and what they do. Then go to another gene and another. In a lot of ways it IS like math: the knowledge is cummulative. If you don't understand the genetic terminoogy (such as allele), start there and learn one phrase at a time.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Fair enough! Given my passion for blues, I'm not complaining!!!

Is it common to mix blues and lavenders in Silkie breeding programs? (I'm used to blacks being the split of choice in a lavender pen. But I'm also used to black being included in B/B/S pens and I gather that isn't common in Silkie breeding pens either.)

 

[SilverSilkie]

Don;t try to learn it all at once. Start with one gene and learn its alleles and what they do. Then go to another gene and another. In a lot of ways it IS like math: the knowledge is cummulative. If you don't understand the genetic terminoogy (such as allele), start there and learn one phrase at a time.

and a complete new world will reveal ;-)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I am in lock down with one of my batches of Silkies..I have eggs from 3 different breeders in there! This is going to be fun. I have another bator with 7 lively ones that will go into lock down in a couple of days for the Mother's Day Hatch A Long. I'm in for some fun little fuzzy butts for sure. Oh, also the last ones for the hatch a long is yet another breeder, from here on BYC. ) I have two from BYC, and two from e-bay breeders. Actually, there are a few showgirls in there..not sure how that works, but hoping I get a couple of showgirls...silly question..why are they called.."show,..girls"... they aren't always girls are they? If they have the bare neck? See, told you, silly question, but had to ask.

Think of the quintessential Las Vegas Show Girls with their large feather headdresses and fans.



People have asked about the boys, before, too, maybe they should be called playboys?