Silkies Of A Different Color

[renovationmom]

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I have a few. I had a silver laced(actually black and white) polish crested Rooster. He had a wonderful crest and beard. He was standard, and did not have feathered feet, but I wondered what the outcome would be if I could breed him to a silkie. At the time, the only mature silkie hen I had was a partridge, she is light blue and buff, she is not beared and not much of a crest. About 60% of what I hatched, showed only polish traits. Then I started getting chicks that are buff all over(6) and 2 blue all over, with the polish lacing(black&buff)(black&blue)(no white) on their wings, and a faint pattern over the rest of their body(like a cuckoo). They have the fur, black skin, five toes, feathered feet and legs. They are only 8 weeks, so I do not know what the roos vs. hens will look like,(I am suspecting I have one hen out of 8 in all) or if they will be the bantam size. What I wanted out of the pairing, was to improve the crests on my silkies, hopefully get some beards, and some version of the awesome laced pattern. I had no idea what colors would develope, and I did not think I would see results from the first generation. I would post some pictures for you, if I could figure out how to !

 

[MiMis_Place]

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[renovationmom]

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Thank you so much, I will give it try.

 

[renovationmom]

okay-here goes. some pictures of my misfits, I love them all, no matter.

This is my gold lace silkie, "Buffy"

This is my blue lace silkie, "Peri" (short for Periwinkle)

 

[Teresaann24]

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Very cute but those looks like a partridge and a gray both have penciling if I am correct not lacing.

I am not 100% sure I am not that good difference the penicling from lacing.

 

[renovationmom]

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Very cute but those looks like a partridge and a gray both have penciling if I am correct not lacing.

I am not 100% sure I am not that good difference the penicling from lacing.

I am not sure myself. The Daddy was a silver laced Polish Crested, and the Mama is a buff/blue Partridge. So they do have the partridge for sure, and the with the Polish Crested, I have heard them called silver lace, and silver penciled, and I do not know if they are too different colors, or just two different ways of exspressing it?

 

[renovationmom]

My Baby Cuckoo, "My Precious" He came from a batch of ebay hatching eggs. I just love him. He has even(not blotchy) black skin and five toes. He has a little pink around his beak, and light eyes-which I love. I know light eyes in silkies is a no-no-but I love the light eyes. I can not wait for him to get his red comb, he will be just gorgeous. He also is showing good feathering in his feet, legs and crest(he is 4 weeks old)

I had to go out and look at his skin again, in the picture there looks like some pink around his neck, but I think its just the lighting, he was moving when I took this picture. His feet are like a gray color, so is his skin, definatly lighter then when I compared it to some of my other silkies, but he does not have the blotchy pink patches that the breeder warned me about in some of her Cuckoos.

 

[ShysCreations]

The weather was so nice today I thought to let the 2 week old youngsters out to play in the corn rows. They have a blue mottled bantam cochin buddy too and older cochin chicks looking on....."wondering why the newbies get a prime spot"

 

[pistol123]

Wonderful fun photos, cute kids....

 

[emvickrey]

AWW. I moved my chicks out to the sizzle pen and when I open up the door only the 3 older chicks come out. They got treats of some canned corn today and loved it. They ate it out of my hand. The blue one that is about 3 months old sat on my lap and got hand fed. The 2 white ones that are a little younger wasn't having no cuddling. Somebody stole one of my blue chicks.

I have an idea who it was but I can't prove it. Wish I could. I may need to put out a camera.