Silkie thread!

[SilverSilkie]

I took some pictures of my grow out pen. I have babies 6 weeks to 10 weeks and two 5 month old splash pullets in there. Most of these are from my blue pair so they are my first that I have raised from sratch so to speak! There are three ten week old chicks in the first photo that are from Catdance eggs.

These three are from my own pair. Blue is 9 wks. splash 8 wks. and black 6 wks. I'm getting such great foot feathering and so excited about that!

I like your BBS project birds type very much

I do them in the Partridge-version BBS

Maybe we can help eachother some day ;-)

 

[mama2my4]

Based on the research I have done on this, I would consider Show Quality a bird without DQ's that would likely win or place high in a show, while Breed Quality is a bird without DQ's or occasionally with a DQ which has some great features but may have something like a small crest or poor foot feathering or poor type that would keep it from winning in a show but might be worth breeding to see if it will pass on the great qualities but not the bad ones. I hope others will chime in on this as I believe it's an important discussion.

That is my understanding as well Peep. Like I have a blue boy who is lovely. I certainly consider him BQ. However, his wings are a little loose, so not really SQ. BUT, if I breed him to a girl with nice tight wings hopefully the babies will inherit the wings from mama.

 

[SilverSilkie]

Based on the research I have done on this, I would consider Show Quality a bird without DQ's that would likely win or place high in a show, while Breed Quality is a bird without DQ's or occasionally with a DQ which has some great features but may have something like a small crest or poor foot feathering or poor type that would keep it from winning in a show but might be worth breeding to see if it will pass on the great qualities but not the bad ones. I hope others will chime in on this as I believe it's an important discussion.

When you start a project you must have a goal for a standard. This standard is composed of several qualities. These qualities must be breed together from males and females. Seeing these different qualities is one thing, knowing how they inherit is an other thing. So it comes to knowing what full, semi and absent qualities your breeding birds contain and still need to brought in and in what way you will pass them to their chicks.

Keeping Silkies is a sport
Breeding Silkies is a skill
Breeding TOP Silkies is an ART.

(here comes in the chicken-color-genetica X fingerspitzengefühl)

 

[chicknfun]

Quote: Well, you were able to u/l your avatar..

.. Maybe you could u/l your pics to your photo album then add them to a post? Is it the system, or maybe a setting in your computer or browser? What OS and browser are you using? What type of internet connection do you have?

 

[chisNchickens]

Put your mouse on the pic and it will stop the slideshow until you move it

Lovely birds Peep...

Watch the slide show on the ASBC site. You have to look quick to see the breeders names. http://www.americansilkiebantamclub.org/

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Quote: I reported your post. Perhaps a staff member will come along soon and help you in posting your photos. The report button is for more than junk. It also helps folks having some issues with the site. Hope this helps!

Jim

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I think black skin and blonde hair is probably easier than dark skin and cuckoo plumage

You can get skin that is darker than in the pictured bird, but that would usually be a bird with only one copy of barring (girls or heterozygous boys), and lots of selection for extra melanization. And it still is not quite the mulberry of the standard.

Also, testosterone in males tends to redden the comb, so even with only one copy of barring, you will still find the boys to have redder combs than the girls.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

...
Keeping Silkies is a sport
Breeding Silkies is a skill
Breeding TOP Silkies is an ART.

(here comes in the chicken-color-genetica X fingerspitzengefühl)

I'd LOVE to see this on a tee-shirt!

I need a translation for that last bit, though

 

[peepblessed]

Well hello there! ​

Hahaha!! Made me laught!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: I think it is actually easier to define Show Quality than to define Breeder Quality. Show Quality, to me, means that the bird comes very close to the standard and should compete reasonably well in competition with a good judge.

Breeder Quality does not, in my mind mean a lesser bird that is just a bit lower in quality. Rather, it means a bird that has something valuable to add to the breeding. There are some birds that aren't quite up to top show standards, yet don't really add anything to the breeding. To a very large extent, this is quite subjective. A bird that is a valuable breeder to one person might add nothing extra to someone else's flock. For determination of breeder quality, you not only need to look at the bird itself, you need to look at the flock as a whole and see how that bird fits in, and ask yourself, "what does this bird bring that will add to the quality of my flock?"

A bird that you know from experience throws fantastic chicks can be considered breeder quality. One with such outstanding foot feathers, beard, crest, colouring, etc can be breeder quality. Maybe the bird has great type but lacks foot feathering, or maybe it is too large or small.

A breeder quality bird can be very far from the standard, or very close to it. It may have defects or DQs. But in some way it has a traits that will benefit your flock.