The American Paint Silkie

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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I don't believe anyone has any for sale at this point. We are doing our best to get chicks on the ground but I imagine it will be a good while before anyone has any for sale. Bren or Deb may offer some on an auction as they have had them longer than the rest of us.

I will be bringing my cockerel to show in the Newnan show.

 

[PremierSilkies]

Wow, if you dont know what your talking about please mind your own business

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Thought some of you may be interested in this paint bred by Judy Lee. It is a red paint and she would love to breed more of them...but who knows exactly how??

 

[ultra1classic]

Patiently waiting for the opportunity to pounce on a few paints

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I have a guard dog, a dozen guineas and 9 geese who are great at letting me know someone is about the barn and yard, but what good are they if I'm not home, which is what happened Friday, I did speak to several neighbors about unusual activity (I live down a dead end street my house is the last on the street. One said while gathering her trash can from the curb, a white pickup was leaving my place at high speed and she did notice a blue license plate (LA Plates are White), but was traveling too fast to get the number. Same happend several years back I was raising english budgies at the time and had a whole breeding colony of 15 breeding pairs disappear while I was gone one day.

If you don't already have one, I would suggest a strong lock on your barn, and posssibly on the gate to your property (assuming that there is one)

 

[jen5680]

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Judy also said something about her partr being split to red paint but I don't remember???

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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How does one become an accidental owner of paint silkies, please share your secret, by Private Message is OK, I'd like to get in on the action, and possibly getting in line on being the next accidental owner

I don;t think you should read more into it than was stated. I know that coming right after the theft of your birds, it could sound suspicious. Except that I cannot see anyone making that kind of statement on a large public forum if their birds were obtained in a less than honorable manner.

Over the last few months, I have accidentally acquired a trio of muscovies, a trio of largefowl exhibition barred rocks, a grey silkie cockerel, a paint silkie cockerel and a serama chick. It all had to do with being in the right place at the right time, and meeting up with the right people. Accidentally acquired in my books is coming upon an unexpected opportunity and saying "yes" before that opportunity disappeared.

I was walking down the sale cages in Shawnee and did a double take--there was a very nice looking grey silkie cockerel WITH NO RED. Had had no plans to acquire a grey cock (to go with my grey hen)--heck wasn't even sure where to go as good quality grey males are rare as hen's teeth to voice a cliche. So I jumped at the opportunity.

I was at Deb's, and she had this gorgeous paint cockerel with an excessive over-abundance of the champagne off-colour. I am working on chocolate and khaki silkies, and the off-colour is very similar (it has also been compared to opal in OEGB). So now I have Chocolate-Man, with the idea of seeing how he works in the khaki breeding. It is really the off-colour that I am interested in, and anything I learn about that is more information for breeding it out of the paints.

The rocks and muscovies were more of the same: being in the right place at the right time.

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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Hey Bob, Did you ever get a pic of the "odd" marked chick out of your whites?

 

[jerschex]

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Seems mine will have 3 times the red feathers that Judy Lee's has

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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Seems mine will have 3 times the red feathers that Judy Lee's has

It's very pretty, wouldn't it be great to have paints in the standard color & white pattern?