Silver Duckwing Phoenix?? Thoughts....

[nicalandia]

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Wow.. that s a perfect silver. do you keep him on the shades? seems like the sun can give them a yelowish tint to them

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Thanks, all mine came from well know lines, well the most known really, so they are great stock to start with, but yes for feather conditions too, all my birds are kept in fully roofed pens with deep hay beds to keep the tails and saddles in good shape, also keeps the sun for effecting any colors. Many silver duckwings are what folks call "dirty" silvers I think they have golden duckwing in them some where but do get a yellowing tint to them. This one is a bantam and he got to 38 inches on the tail and 16 on saddles this year

 

[nicalandia]

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I believe Lovesdisney's bird to be pure Silver(having two copies of sex linked Dominant Silver S/S) and not Golden(S/s+ s+ is sex linked recessive gold) I believe it could be sun related, I don't believe its related to autosomal red as this trait is shown on the rooster's shoulder and this one is clean white

 

[Lovesdisney]

He is white. I don't think he is mixed. He was in a box fr 2 days from the auction. He is just straight up grimy. It's too cold to bathe him... Oh well I'm sure he will love that in spring

 

[flgardengirl]

My silver duckwing phx get sunbleached look to them in the summer running around in the FL sun. I really love them they are so sweet. The hens love to be held and the roos are chatterboxes lol. The roos all follow me around in the morning just jabbering away..."Hurry up with that food, can't ya move any faster, come on, come on pick up the pace!" My Phx roos rule the yard too even keep the big orpington roos and marans off thier girls LOL! They kinda take a running leap at the other roos and make a war cry, LOL. I think that's what scares the bigger roos off. They are quite the characters.

I tried crossing some silver phx roos with ameraucana hens. Mutts yes but, Wow pretty boys with long tails, who are complete warlords, and they never shut up lol. I think they are chattier than thier dad.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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I believe Lovesdisney's bird to be pure Silver(having two copies of sex linked Dominant Silver S/S) and not Golden(S/s+ s+ is sex linked recessive gold) I believe it could be sun related, I don't believe its related to autosomal red as this trait is shown on the rooster's shoulder and this one is clean white

oh no, I agree there. Didnt mean this one was, yes it's pure and correct color wise. But there are some that come with a yellowish tint from birth. They are the ones we refer to as "dirty" phoenix. Got a few large fowl like that. They defiantely have gold in their back ground.
I know what you mean about the bleaching, seen that too. Will try to get a pic of those like I was talking about if I get time