Silkies Of A Different Color

[Brody's Broodello]

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I dunno, on ASBC and The-Coop, no one commented it was the same, but said that it was a silver wheaten the best they could decide, Sigrid did not seem to say it was Salmon either, I suppose, it could be, but does she look to be a salmon to you? I have had salmon faverolles in the past and the silver wheaten pullet to me just does not look like they did.

Anywho, I have them both entered into the show Saturday, mostly as an oddity if nothing else.

I looked it up this morning, and salmon is silver wheaten plus mahogany and possibly autosomal red, so I was partly right, but not quite. In any case, a very pretty bird

(both of them are)

Thanks Sonoran, I was trying to find out what the genetic makeup of Salmon was. I knew there was red in it, the one's I have do have a Mahogany color to them. The girls though have more red in them than a tradtional Salmon hen. But I guess the next gen will be the test for all this.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Brody's Broodello :

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Oh I just wanted to see if the cocks looked lik my guy that I posted. It is interesting the genes behind the colors and how people are getting the end results.

Check out my project photo album on the club website. One significant difference is that my boys have (mostly) deep red breasts, and are not pure silkie (next gen should get all those traits back, though

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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Oh I just wanted to see if the cocks looked lik my guy that I posted. It is interesting the genes behind the colors and how people are getting the end results.

Check out my project photo album on the club website. One significant difference is that my boys have (mostly) deep red breasts, and are not pure silkie (next gen should get all those traits back, though

Ok I will. My birds are all silkie, no crosses to other breeds. I have selectively bred these guys from colors already out there, in an attempt to "make" a new color. The judges at Lucasville commented on the breed type on the Salmon bird I had at the show.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Brody's Broodello :

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I looked it up this morning, and salmon is silver wheaten plus mahogany and possibly autosomal red, so I was partly right, but not quite. In any case, a very pretty bird

(both of them are)

Thanks Sonoran, I was trying to find out what the genetic makeup of Salmon was. I knew there was red in it, the one's I have do have a Mahogany color to them. The girls though have more red in them than a tradtional Salmon hen. But I guess the next gen will be the test for all this.​

Genetic's of Chicken Colours lists the salmon genotype as any of:

E^Wh/E^Wh S/- Ar/Ar Mh/Mh for French & German faverolles, with Di/di+ added for American faverolles

E^Wh/E^Wh or e^b/e^b S/- Ar/Ar Mh/Mh (pg+/pg+) for wyandottes

e+/e+ S/- Ar/Ar Mh/Mh Co/Co for Dutch bantams


Sounds like your girls may be more like the French & German colouring

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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Thanks Sonoran, I was trying to find out what the genetic makeup of Salmon was. I knew there was red in it, the one's I have do have a Mahogany color to them. The girls though have more red in them than a tradtional Salmon hen. But I guess the next gen will be the test for all this.

Genetic's of Chicken Colours lists the salmon genotype as any of:

E^Wh/E^Wh S/- Ar/Ar Mh/Mh for French & German faverolles, with Di/di+ added for American faverolles

E^Wh/E^Wh or e^b/e^b S/- Ar/Ar Mh/Mh (pg+/pg+) for wyandottes

e+/e+ S/- Ar/Ar Mh/Mh Co/Co for Dutch bantams


Sounds like your girls may be more like the French & German colouring

Here's another pic of the oldest Salmon Cockeral, you can really see the Mahogany in him. I really like the red & straw barring on the wings. You can really see the straw ticking he has all over.

 

[JenEric Farms]

Gorgeous!!!

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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Thanks, I'm totally smitten with these. So I'm having a sale to make room for these. Some other projects will be heading out, so I can get this project off the ground!

 

[JenEric Farms]

So...what are you selling???

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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1st off the Cuckoos, it would just happen that 2 more just hatched out! Some wyandottes, and really going to cut back on some of ther breeders to make room for the new one's. We have about 200 silkies here. It is easier for someone to say "hey I'm looking for?" Then I can say, yes we have 20 of thoses,etc.

It's the GQF's fault, just to easy to hatch out all the little buggers!

 

[JenEric Farms]

Do you have bantam BLRW?