Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: so maybe I need a few eggs from you red? two of the girls from you look like the two you are showing
there they are actually my favorites

 

[pennyJo1960]

that moss green grows on everything that stand still for any length

 

[pennyJo1960]

 

[Hinotori]

 

 

Chicks are hatching early. Should be a peeping incubator by morning.

You are hatching this time of year too?

Put any hatching egg ads up yet ?

Not selling silkie eggs. The broody silkies do well raising babies any time of year. I put Ashes in with some hens so I can test breed for resessive white in those hens. Ashes drives me nuts because he's turned out to be a gorgeous cockerel with perfect wings. That's what i needed for partridge breeding. Not some white suddenly showing up in my breeding pens.

@Hinotori


so tell me is white bad in silikies? and partridge?

White in silkies is resessive white. It hides unless two carriers mate then there is a 25% chance for a white bird. This is not good in any non-white flock. So I'm trying to remove the gene from my partridge flock.

I'm really thinking about getting a few white hens for Ashes. But then partridge is gold based and if I remember right, silver based white have the better color without yellowing

 

[junebuggena]

White in silkies is resessive white. It hides unless two carriers mate then there is a 25% chance for a white bird. This is not good in any non-white flock. So I'm trying to remove the gene from my partridge flock.

I'm really thinking about getting a few white hens for Ashes. But then partridge is gold based and if I remember right, silver based white have the better color without yellowing

Does recessive white affect gold? I thought the white genes only affected black patterning and left the base color unaltered.

 

[Hinotori]

White in silkies is resessive white. It hides unless two carriers mate then there is a 25% chance for a white bird. This is not good in any non-white flock. So I'm trying to remove the gene from my partridge flock.


I'm really thinking about getting a few white hens for Ashes. But then partridge is gold based and if I remember right, silver based white have the better color without yellowing

Does recessive white affect gold? I thought the white genes only affected black patterning and left the base color unaltered.

Gold and silver can effect white. Gold can make it yellow more easily. (As can eating lots of corn) The white itself doesn't do anything other than totally cover whatever color is underneath.

Maybe in the spring I can take him to show and get an experts opinion on his conformation.

Ashes handles really well and poses for me. He's the Fabio of my silkie pens

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: Gold and silver can effect white. Gold can make it yellow more easily. (As can eating lots of corn) The white itself doesn't do anything other than totally cover whatever color is underneath.

Maybe in the spring I can take him to show and get an experts opinion on his conformation.

Ashes handles really well and poses for me. He's the Fabio of my silkie pens
working in dogs all the years that makes perfect sense many things can affect color
not just light

 

[Hinotori]

And 24 hours later the first had hatched and is dry. I'm screaming in frustration. The chick is white. Argh. That beautiful partridge rooster is a carrier.

 

[Fluffers]

Then you need more chickens so you can have the terrifying piles of feathers that make you do head counts.

I have a few big girls finally laying again. My fault for not getting or hatching pullets last spring. The silkies make up for it though. The 14 nonbroody girls give me an average of 10 a day. I've been saving all my eggs the last two weeks to give to Mom, though.

 

[pennyJo1960]

And 24 hours later the first had hatched and is dry. I'm screaming in frustration. The chick is white. Argh. That beautiful partridge rooster is a carrier.

So he won't be the one to use

I understand your frustration