Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[Hinotori]

I have black hens and silver black roos. they are brothers and sisters (mom might be there as well, forgot to mark her). one of the chicks I hatched has a huge red dot on head

Sometimes weird stuff can happen. Especially if there is mixed colors in the background.

I still haven't figured out how I keep getting solid black birds when breeding to my cochin/silkie. She herself should have had visible leakage. She has like 6 feathers with brown at just the very tip and unnoticeable. Her mother was partridge. Her chicks from a partridge rooster should come out very leaky black or partridge from my experience. They are all jet black with no leakage.

I lost the actual cross color full silkie in the bunch. I'll have to grab each of them and look because she has a little leakage.

 

[riss]

Here’s my rooster silkie

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

I need help, I know he is probably a boy, but what color is he? I assumed partridge at first. Is it a painted buff? Or just a mix? Also is he the breed standard for the APA?

Him now.

At 5 weeks.

as a chick.

Him and his hopefully female brooder mate around one week ago.

 

[EliseH]

I have black hens and silver black roos. they are brothers and sisters (mom might be there as well, forgot to mark her). one of the chicks I hatched has a huge red dot on head

I thought you weren't supposed to breed siblings?

 

[Hinotori]

I need help, I know he is probably a boy, but what color is he? I assumed partridge at first. Is it a painted buff? Or just a mix? Also is he the breed standard for the APA? View attachment 3551297Him now.View attachment 3551298 At 5 weeks.View attachment 3551299as a chick.View attachment 3551300 Him and his hopefully female brooder mate around one week ago.

Looks mostly buff. Buff shouldn't have any black on it. The striped wings as a chick means it probably isn't fully buff in its background.

Deciding on show birds takes until they are 6 months or more older, especially on cockerels. They need to have a decent crest and beard of bearded. Yes a lot of bearded have excessive crests. Need to be sufficiently fluffy and good foot feathering. These aren't disqualifications but the bird will be marked down. Hatchery birds are easy to distinguish from well bred show birds on sight and will be disqualified as utility birds.

There are a lot of general chicken disqualifications that I'm not going to post. Silkies tend to have issues with split wing and vulture hocks.

BUFF
Male and Female
PLUMAGE: Surface throughout-- an even shade of
rich golden buff.
Male -- head, neck, hackle, back, wing bows and
saddle showing greater luster
Female -- hackle, some luster.
Undercolor -- matching surface as near as possible.

BUFF SILKIE BANTAMS
(BEARDED AND NON-BEARDED)
COMB, FACE, AND WATTLES: Deep mulberry.
BEAK: Slaty blue.
EYES: Black.
EARLOBES: Turquoise blue.
SHANKS & TOES: Slaty blue; nails, horn.

SILKIE BANTAMS
DISQUALIFICATIONS
Bright red comb, face, and wattles. Shanks not
feathered down outer sides. Feathers not truly silky
(except in primaries, secondaries, leg, toe, and main
tail
feathers.) Vulture hocks.
STANDARD WEIGHTS
Cock 36 OZ. Hen 32 OZ.

 

[chickengr]

I thought you weren't supposed to breed siblings?

that is what I had. I need to get a new roo now. we can breed siblings once to see what good/bad traits they have.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Looks mostly buff. Buff shouldn't have any black on it. The striped wings as a chick means it probably isn't fully buff in its background.

Deciding on show birds takes until they are 6 months or more older, especially on cockerels. They need to have a decent crest and beard of bearded. Yes a lot of bearded have excessive crests. Need to be sufficiently fluffy and good foot feathering. These aren't disqualifications but the bird will be marked down. Hatchery birds are easy to distinguish from well bred show birds on sight and will be disqualified as utility birds.

There are a lot of general chicken disqualifications that I'm not going to post. Silkies tend to have issues with split wing and vulture hocks.

BUFF
Male and Female
PLUMAGE: Surface throughout-- an even shade of
rich golden buff.
Male -- head, neck, hackle, back, wing bows and
saddle showing greater luster
Female -- hackle, some luster.
Undercolor -- matching surface as near as possible.

BUFF SILKIE BANTAMS
(BEARDED AND NON-BEARDED)
COMB, FACE, AND WATTLES: Deep mulberry.
BEAK: Slaty blue.
EYES: Black.
EARLOBES: Turquoise blue.
SHANKS & TOES: Slaty blue; nails, horn.

SILKIE BANTAMS
DISQUALIFICATIONS
Bright red comb, face, and wattles. Shanks not
feathered down outer sides. Feathers not truly silky
(except in primaries, secondaries, leg, toe, and main
tail
feathers.) Vulture hocks.
STANDARD WEIGHTS
Cock 36 OZ. Hen 32 OZ.

Ah so it is a mixed coloring. So no shows for him.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Looks mostly buff. Buff shouldn't have any black on it. The striped wings as a chick means it probably isn't fully buff in its background.

Deciding on show birds takes until they are 6 months or more older, especially on cockerels. They need to have a decent crest and beard of bearded. Yes a lot of bearded have excessive crests. Need to be sufficiently fluffy and good foot feathering. These aren't disqualifications but the bird will be marked down. Hatchery birds are easy to distinguish from well bred show birds on sight and will be disqualified as utility birds.

There are a lot of general chicken disqualifications that I'm not going to post. Silkies tend to have issues with split wing and vulture hocks.

BUFF
Male and Female
PLUMAGE: Surface throughout-- an even shade of
rich golden buff.
Male -- head, neck, hackle, back, wing bows and
saddle showing greater luster
Female -- hackle, some luster.
Undercolor -- matching surface as near as possible.

BUFF SILKIE BANTAMS
(BEARDED AND NON-BEARDED)
COMB, FACE, AND WATTLES: Deep mulberry.
BEAK: Slaty blue.
EYES: Black.
EARLOBES: Turquoise blue.
SHANKS & TOES: Slaty blue; nails, horn.

SILKIE BANTAMS
DISQUALIFICATIONS
Bright red comb, face, and wattles. Shanks not
feathered down outer sides. Feathers not truly silky
(except in primaries, secondaries, leg, toe, and main
tail
feathers.) Vulture hocks.
STANDARD WEIGHTS
Cock 36 OZ. Hen 32 OZ.

Also thank you! That was very informative.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Hey I have a few girls that are a couple months older than a year old as well as a couple months shy of a year old and 4 of them have similar broken feathers off their backs above the tail area. Here's a pic of my Satin.
Could this be caused from mating? I have 2 boys to 10 girls and am trying to get them separated.
I don't think it is a molt as there aren't very many pin feathers.
I have 1 girl d'uccle that has this around her neck opposed to her back.
Just trying to determine what's going on.

 

[Hinotori]

Yes boys can do that. I have some girls with that issue in pens with multiple boys