Silkie thread!

[Sanna]

hi I'm knew to this thread and i really like all the pics. white silkies are my favorite please post more pictures

Welcome!
I have new pictures to post for everyone.


This is One Eyed Bandit, aka Bandit. This little one somehow managed to get in the pen next door when he was about a week old. Next door live the turkeys and they didn't like Bandit. He got beat up a little bit, had a cut by his tail feathers and an eye injury. The cut healed up very nicely but looks like he lost his vision in his right eye.

I still don't know how he was able to get in with the turkeys. I haven't been able to find a crack or a hole ANYWHERE in between the pens... Smart little guy.
Well. Because he had so much handling when I was caring for him after the turkey attack, he's the friendliest chick out of all my chickens. He'll let you pick him up and hold him and he just sort of hangs out. I love it! I wish they were all like Bandit. lol


Then we had a little snack.




This little lady had a good drink of water. I'm pretty sure she's a little lady. Certainly keeping my fingers crossed.


And this young man! I'll be keeping him. My favorite rooster Curly is going to have some competition when this guy grows up. I haven't named him yet. Any suggestions?




So cute.





And the only buff I have. Can't figure out if it's a boy or a girl. So far all the chicks are looking like girls except for the two splashes. But they're only 10 weeks old so I could still be wrong. I don't know if I can be so lucky to only have 2 cockerels?

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Ok, the camera somehow deleted most of the pics I took but at least these are ok. Top two are No Toes (his/her nails have not been painted; needed some way to be sure to tell them apart). Second is 3 Toes. None of the pics of my third chick saved for some reason. Anycase, leaning heavily 3 Toes being a boy, not sure about No Toes. Thoughts?

I am going to try and get more pics of 1 Toe later; possibly tonight.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Quote:
Wedgewood was suggested on the ASBC forum. I thought it was cute.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Cochins are not necessarily frizzled. Unless the cochin is frizzled, there is unlikely to be frizzle in the future.

Not sure I understand the first breeding possibility...Is the blue split to mottle? And crossing to a mille fleur cochin? Or a blue silkie crossed to ??don;t understand split if it is used here, unless the mille has only one copy of mottle.

Here is a silkieXbrahma:

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Cochins are not necessarily frizzled.  Unless the cochin is frizzled, there is unlikely to be frizzle in the future.

Not sure I understand the first breeding possibility...Is the blue split to mottle?  And crossing to a mille fleur cochin?  Or a blue silkie crossed to ??don;t understand split if it is used here, unless the mille has only one copy of mottle.

Here is a silkieXbrahma:

Thanks for the pic! I have been digging everywhere for a Silkie x brahma pic with no luck.

As to my mottled split to Mille Fleur Cochin hen, she looks straight mottled but she has a few specks of brown here or there. She has some Mille Fleur in her history somewhere but it doesn't really show. I only call her that because the breeder called her that. The Silkie is a blue that came from a mottled and partridge pen (though with that breeder I am not 100% that those are the eggs she gave me)

 

[ChicksNherps]

What is the genetic make up of the creamsickles maybe I can think up a name? I sure hope you can find a name that everyone is satisfied with. Are you close to having the number and showing of the variety to get it approved? I think they are the most beautiful color in silkies.

(lavender X cream) ? and something else?

I haven't even started yet lol but the one i have came from partridge eggs.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Mille fleur is a relatively complicated pattern (meaning that it needs a lot of different genes to create the pattern). One of the required genes is mottle, and it must be present in two copies as mottle is recessive. By brown, do you mean the bay/buff colouring on mille fleur feathers? Or something else? Mottle is the only gene in the mille fleur pattern that MUST be homozygous (two copies). Others can get away with one copy, although the pattern will be better with two.

There really are not many folks working on mottled silkies. IMO, mottle plus partridge would make a very messy looking silkie. It would be messy on any bird, but especially on a silkie.

 

[tiki244]

hi I'm knew to this thread and i really like all the pics. white silkies are my favorite please post more pictures

I am charging my batteries>then off to take pics. I have a dark blue silkieXcochin cockerel too. He is the one out of my four babies who has perfect toes/feet the three pure silkies have imperfections lol Thanks ChicksNherps I doubt I could come up with aname now that I think about it. I do like China Doll I just don't see some people going with the doll part. Silkies are originally from China? No? I have no idea where Wedgewood came? Best of Luck getting the peoples in charge to accept something! Wedgewood is very unique!

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Mille fleur is a relatively complicated pattern (meaning that it needs a lot of different genes to create the pattern).  One of the required genes is mottle, and it must be present in two copies as mottle is recessive.  By brown, do you mean the bay/buff colouring on mille fleur feathers?  Or something else?  Mottle is the only gene in the mille fleur pattern that MUST be homozygous (two copies).  Others can get away with one copy, although the pattern will be better with two.

There really are not many folks working on mottled silkies.  IMO, mottle plus partridge would make a very messy looking silkie.  It would be messy on any bird, but especially on a silkie.

There are just a few very dark red/brown spots, absolutely tiny, here and there. If the breeder hadn't pointed them out I never would have seen them. They are literally only about a millimeter across.

The Silkie breeder was working on a calico project. She said if any of my chicks hatched with a calico pattern she'd "pay good money" to buy it back. She didn't strike me as the most knowledgeable breeder, just one I could get Silkie eggs from on short notice. And I like oddball colorings so I didn't mind the potential for unique looking birds. Irony being I hatched all blues.

 

[ChicksNherps]

I am charging my batteries>then off to take pics. I have a dark blue silkieXcochin cockerel too. He is the one out of my four babies who has perfect toes/feet

the three pure silkies have imperfections lol
Thanks ChicksNherps I doubt I could come up with aname now that I think about it. I do like China Doll I just don't see some people going with the doll part. Silkies are originally from China? No?
I have no idea where Wedgewood came?

Best of Luck getting the peoples in charge to accept something! Wedgewood is very unique!

China and Japan I believe. I didn't even think of that haha! People go for "showgirl" even for roo's so why not china doll