What's wrong with their feathers?

[kathyinmo]

That's what Julie is asking ... what to call them????

Soft feathers ... Soft, fluffy, Hmmmm, what besides Silkied Ameraucanas?

 

[garp94]

Downy Ameraucanas???

 

[alicefelldown]

Jubaby, would it be possible to snag a feather or two from your birds and get it under a microscope? I'm curious to see how it compares to a) normal feathers, and b) silkie feathers which lack functioning barbicels.

Post-edit: Garp94 is practically reading my mind! If these feathers lack barbicels, it would make them comparable to down feathers. Another avenue to explore while looking for names...

 

[SteveH]

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There you go ; call them the Downies breed

[ edt : TBH I was having a senior's moment and confusing two TV commercials in my mind ; Downy fab softener and Huggies diapers , but both Downies and Huggies might be cute names ]

 

[kathyinmo]

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There you go ; call them the Downies breed

I love it!

 

[alicefelldown]

Sounds like a derogatory slang term for Down Syndrome unfortunately. Not really ideal.

I'm racking my brain (and the internet) trying to come up with something. I found that in 1599, Ulisse Aldrovandi, a writer and naturalist at the university of Bologna, Italy published a comprehensive treatise on chickens. In it, he spoke on "wool-bearing chickens" and ones "clothed with hair like that of a black cat".

And that Early Dutch breeders told buyers they [Silkies] were the offspring of chickens and rabbits, while sideshows promoted them as having actual mammalian fur.

 

[kathyinmo]

Downy doesn't bring to mind Down's Syndrome to me ...AT ALL ! ! !

 

[kathyinmo]

I think they should be named after Julie! Juled Ameracaunas!

 

[alicefelldown]

Kathy, it does and it doesn't for me too. On one hand, I think of the Snuggie bear from the laundry commercials, but on the other hand, I know it's a derogatory slang term. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=downie and http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=downy

 

[kathyinmo]

I don't buy it! Who in the world would ...

No comment.

Except to say ... My pillow is DOWNY soft!