What's wrong with their feathers?

[silkiechick236]

Those are the coolest birds ever!

 

[Jubaby]

Here's a tie-in to another thread about the same chickens:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=144074

I want to ask some of the creative people on the forum to help me come up with a new name for these silkie ameraucanas, cause I've been admonished a few times already about calling them ameraucanas. Though they have the ameraucana traits they are not pure-bred, and thus we need a new name.

Any thoughts?

 

[alicefelldown]

Around the house, while waiting on your eggs, we've been calling them the 'defective gene ameraucanas' but I don't think that's the name we should stick with on these lol.

I've your your batch coming next week (so excited!!!) and then some blue/black ameraucanas coming from pips&peeps scheduled right after and 7-8 months from now will be joining you in the magical land of breeding more of these fascinating specimens.

So we did come the final conclusion that these are not pure? I though the eggbid seller confirmed that they were pure for multiple generations...

 

[kathyinmo]

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It has been confirmed that they ARE pure, I believe, per the emails and contact information in the previous posts.

 

[alicefelldown]

Kathy, I'm referring to post #112 by Jubaby says that these are not-pure, although they have ameraucana traits.

 

[kathyinmo]

Hmmmm, I dunno ...

It sounds to me like all the correspondence said they did NOT even have Silkies. ??? I see no 5 toes, no black skin, etc .... Only the feathers? Hmmmm, I am no genetics person, but that would be odd, wouldn't it?

 

[Keri78]

To me who cares!!!(LOL) Their gorgeous!!!! Ok....back to obsessing about this new name!(LOL)

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I think they are pure ameraucanas. If you bred blacks forever and had a white pop up it would still be pure because it is just a recesssive trait like the silkie feathering. These came from pure ameraucanas and if you were to take away the silkie feathering and give them normal feathers they would look just like any other splash ameraucana out there. Just like the silkied seramas and silkied japs and silkied cochins even. So I say call them silkied ameraucanas even if some breeders dont agree. If I got a wyandotte with a single comb I would still call it a wyandotte, just a single combed version and not some other breed.

 

[kathyinmo]

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And that is just what I will do!

 

[alicefelldown]

My only qualms with calling them 'Silkie Ameraucanas' is that it implies they are a cross-breed involving a Silkie, which as far as I know (and I think I've pretty much memorized this entire thread by now

) they are not, per the seller's own words, and also the breeder who sold the seller their stock previously.