Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[CSolis]

AHA! That daddy also produced this boy and several others like him..so now I know.

 

[Hinotori]

AHA! That daddy also produced this boy and several others like him..so now I know.View attachment 3413338

Definitely blue there

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

The f1 Buff pullet is a daughter of my partridge Roo and a Bantam Buff Orpington. Would she have gotten a blue gene from him?View attachment 3413288
and she was bred to a Splash, hence blue or splash babies. Buff is a diluted Red from what I understand, and Red comes from Black. I need to go to genetics schools!

OMGeeze he has some beautiful coloring!
My very first hatch I had ONE chick I knew was a boy that was gonna be a light partridge. I could KICK myself for not keeping that boy!!!

 

[CSolis]

OMGeeze he has some beautiful coloring!
My very first hatch I had ONE chick I knew was a boy that was gonna be a light partridge. I could KICK myself for not keeping that boy!!!

Well besides the too big and too light comb, he also has the 'moore head' gene that he likes to pass along.. I've gotten one fluffy son of his that doesn't have the black head. But he does produce colors.. Later I'll be hatching his daughters eggs that are in with him to see who's doing what. This one below is his only fuzzling son that doesn't have the black head. He has a much smaller comb, but still too red. I'm sure 'I'm Blue Too' can fix that as well as putting the pom pom on her babies, just like her mom does.

 

[CSolis]

AHA! That daddy also produced this boy and several others like him..so now I know.View attachment 3413338

IF I could only get a silkie rooster with the brilliant color that this guy has, I'd put purple and green beads around his chest and call him Mardi Gras! But, from what I've seen, most of the silkie colors are fairly muted.

 

[CSolis]

Here is Little Boy Blue with his flock, Eggs in the bator now. Couldn't get Dark Rose to stay still. Cheyenne is a cochin mix, Turtle Dove (She looks like a turtle candy) is the EE mix that produced 3 fine daughters for me.

 

[CSolis]

This is Lancelot with his little flock. One is already an F2... From left to right.. Lancelot, Sioux (Cheyenne's sister), Lakota and Iroquois.

 

[CSolis]

This was the last chick to hatch on Monday.. slowpoke! But already has some poof and floof going on. It's the Splash x F1 Bantam Buff Orpington cross.

 

[Obsessed With Silkies]

Just pretend this is a really big splash silkie cockerel.

Well I've almost got Hermes trained around the chickens. He probably won't be safe to leave with them until he outgrows the teenage hyperness.

The silkies are wary of him but no longer scared of him. He still freaks out my large fowl.

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I've decided I will hatch a clutch of chicks fathered by this guy to see how they turn out. He carries one copy of the silkied gene. View attachment 3394056

And this one I wish was a color I wanted.
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I've missed this thread and I've been catching up on all the beautiful chicks and Silkies! @Hinotori, your dog is beautiful, what breed is it!

 

[CSolis]

OOHHHHHHHHH I'm Eggstatic this morning. I'm Blue Too just laid her first egg at 26 weeks..

It's a curious thing... not a single one of the blue pullets from Poof Poof and Shadow Captain (Calico Splash) have any red leakage at all, while Little Boy Blue has.. Is that sex related?