What's wrong with their feathers?

[EdenCamp]

I'm going to also work on the chocolate silkied AM, I'm hatching out two sets from pips and peeps. I also have a red leakage in my splash. You can see it in my pictures on the page before.

Yeah I messed up a hatching batch of Peeps hard feathered chocolates - was waiting for more of her hens to be laying again so I can get a full dozen+. Offering them in combination with her blacks is a great idea for those that need black Am for SOP work. I wanted, and have, different SQ AM lines to outcross and improve both choc projects (hard feathered and silkied) so I just didn't need the black all ready in Peeps lines - a big picture genetic diversity decision made and frankly, rather have more choc choices (and hopefully more choc boys) to work from. Choc boys are the plum and I'm greedy - like choices and backups and was going to do both non-silkied hard featherd and silkied choc/mauve projects. Could use the choc boys to take into the silkied project and with SQ SOP hens either project for guarenteed split males and some choc females.

Anyway, as fate and fortune smiled - I now have a small adult flock of Chookschicks choc/mauve silkied project, plus a good number of juvies and chicks!

THANK YOU RENEE! and in my friend Nicole

who lives close that has also taking up this and a number of other of Renee's projects to work on with

. This neck of MO is like a box of chocolates and a VERY happy place right now! The little bump delaying the hard feather choc Ams turned out to be a good thing - I can let the dust settle some before biting off more.

Peeps position (as I understand it) in staying clear of silkieds drop-dead-itus is valid. There is still some fragility to them, tho this is becoming far less frequent an issue with progressively increasing genetic diversity from generation to generation going forward. But awareness just further solidifies the outcrossing decision choices made.

Needless to say, I'm interested in the idea of the calico, even have one, just havent' had the time to get into what the deal is. Maybe time for it's own color project thread?

 

[chick-among-us]

that would be awesome!

i bet those are awesome!

 

[supermom1185]

I am working on chocolates in silkied and hard feathers too. Right now I have a silkied blue rooster from NicoleRM and a pair of chocolates from Chookschick. My chocolate roo is hard feathered chocolate and the pullet is silkied chocolate. I also have a dozen eggs from Pips and Peeps in the incubator going well and due next week! There are 4 blue/black eggs and 8 chocolate eggs with bouncy babies! I'm hoping to get a good hatch. The plan is to cross the two chocolates together to see if I get a chocolate silkied rooster to work with while also crossing him to black hens for better quality chocolate hens. I will have 3 pens separated for crossing different combinations as we work toward SOP! I plan to have a silkied line separate from a regular feathered line. My rooster from Chookschick is showing silver or gold in his hackle/neck feathers. He also has lacing. Is this how the chocolate looks or is he a dark mauve? These pictures look dark but in the sun, both are a rich chocolate. I'm learning a lot about genetics and colors but haven't mastered it yet!



This is my blue silkied boy with his current ladies, a silver penciled rock, blue penciled rock, and lemon cuckoo orp.

 

[smoothmule]

Is everyone here working on Chocolate and/or Silkied Ameraucana's?

 

[EdenCamp]

This is the origional thread from when the silkieds AMs first showed up.
I saw at some point people were wanting to do colors other than BBS - choc is one of those.

There's another thread for Choc/mauve Ams -silkied or not.

 

[EdenCamp]

This is the origional thread from when the silkieds AMs first showed up.
I saw at some point people were wanting to do colors other than BBS - choc is one of those.

There's another thread for Choc/mauve Ams -silkied or not.

 

[mstricer]

I'm working on silkied and will be working on the chocolates

 

[supermom1185]

Im going to do BBS as well as chocolate in silkied AM. I'm still getting everything started but have my plan written out! I think there are probably more working with bbs but there have just been a lot posting about chocolate lately.

 

[misschickenlittle]

I am working on choc/mauve but bbs are in there so by default I have them too.
Although they are split.

 

[EdenCamp]

Im going to do BBS as well as chocolate in silkied AM. I'm still getting everything started but have my plan written out! I think there are probably more working with bbs but there have just been a lot posting about chocolate lately.

Reason being Chookschicks/Renee, the Choc Silkied Ams Diva, has been setting up a few of us to carry on with the project. MissChickenLittle and I live close together and have a nice pocket of these chooks to collaborate on. There are others out there without the choc genes. Trying to find out what other color silkied Ams projects are active out there.