Silkies Of A Different Color

[Elite Silkies]

I would say the Partridge sizzle Rooster is the father. I would call the chick blue partridge or just partridge.

 

[ultasol]

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You have miscolored (smutty) buffs, the cockerel is lord knows what, and the other looks gray but who knows without getting into the details of the pattern. I am betting they came from mixed color pen breedings? They are cute. I only see one that looks like a boy right now, but when they lay you'll know for sure.

Gotta love the showgirls!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

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You have miscolored (smutty) buffs, the cockerel is lord knows what, and the other looks gray but who knows without getting into the details of the pattern. I am betting they came from mixed color pen breedings? They are cute. I only see one that looks like a boy right now, but when they lay you'll know for sure.

Gotta love the showgirls!

thanks, yeah she told me they all came from a mixed pen, i was just seeing if any of them were gems, haha. well i think theyre gems anyways. That cockerall sure is strange colered though, never seen anything quite like it. i see ones like the yellows all the time, but that roo is something. something...err....ugly....

 

[Teresaann24]

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You have miscolored (smutty) buffs, the cockerel is lord knows what, and the other looks gray but who knows without getting into the details of the pattern. I am betting they came from mixed color pen breedings? They are cute. I only see one that looks like a boy right now, but when they lay you'll know for sure.

Gotta love the showgirls!

thanks, yeah she told me they all came from a mixed pen, i was just seeing if any of them were gems, haha. well i think theyre gems anyways. That cockerall sure is strange colered though, never seen anything quite like it. i see ones like the yellows all the time, but that roo is something. something...err....ugly....

LOL, I Love showgirls They are so ugly they are cute

 

[sunket77]

so how hard is it to "breed" a show girl? it couldn't possibly be as simple as crossing a NN w/ silkie?? I crossed silkie with cochin and they came out smooth feathered and mostly yellow skin. But have beards and 5 toes (make wonderful broodies on a side note) how hard is it to get the silkied feathers? I have some lovely little feather footed NN ...hhmmm I wonder how they would do crossed with my blue silkie roo.

 

[Teresaann24]

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you just keep breeding the offspring from the NN/silkie cross to silkies with better qualites and then those offspring to just silkies and so on and so.

 

[ultasol]

It's easier to start with decent showgirls than to reinvent the wheel by doing a turkenxsilkie cross. I don't know how many generations in mine are, but they look just like silkies except for naked necks.
cuckoo

White

Blue

Black

You should join the showgirl thread.

 

[tgrlily]

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I just have to say -- I think most showgirls look scary!

But yours are actually pretty!

 

[SonRise Silkies]

I'm no genetic expert by any means, but the reason tgrlily thinks some SG are scarey is that there are two
completely different looking SG. Different genetically also.

One set is Homozygous and the others are Hetrozygous.

Some have total naked neck [Homozygous] and some have big "bowties" like Ultrasol. They are Hetrozygous

The birds that Aubreynoramarie has pictured are the Homozygous. Her birds will produce NN all the time, the others won't.

You have to be careful with the ones like Aubreynoramarie, each generation of SG will be more and more naked.
And they will become "scarey" too.

Cheryl

 

[sunket77]

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you have lovely showgirls

I LOVE the cuckoo!