What's wrong with their feathers?

[kathyinmo]

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Two are totally hatched.

Now waiting on the others to join in. I hear chirping!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Kathy... I Need Pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hennypen]

Somewhere in all these pages there was mention of the same silkie ameraucana type ofoccurance in ?? England?? What ever came of that? Anyone know?

 

[alicefelldown]

Those looked more like Fray, and were what led us to thinking that might be the issue with these birds. Fray is closely linked to the Lavender gene, I think that was the color of Ameraucana that they saw these in. As far as I know, nothing ever happened with those birds, I believe they were culled because of their feather defect (and Fray has a negative effect on hatchablity)

Since Jubaby was able to get silkied chicks from a Silkie/Ameraucana crossing - it means that the birds do have the hookless gene (which is not only in Silkies), and since they came out with all the other Silkie attributes like 5 toes, black skin, etc - it makes it less likely that it was a recent cross between the two varieties.

 

[Redcatcher]

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Two are totally hatched.

Now waiting on the others to join in. I hear chirping!

Congratulations! I am looking forward to seeing pics.

 

[Hennypen]

Has the person who owns the parent birds of the first silkied ameraucanas gotten any more with this feather type?

 

[alicefelldown]

Nope. I've spoken with 3 of the previous breeders (10 years) involved in this bloodline and none of them have ever seen anything like these birds.

 

[Redcatcher]

No fertility issues at all with my batch (set August 3rd). Every one of them has a healthy, active embryo except for the three that had ruptured air cells. Those are at the rear of the incubator and I do not even plan to handle them for the entire incubation.

 

[Hennypen]

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Really weird... in a good way.

 

[kathyinmo]

I have 4 new babies hatched!

More to come ....

Here are the first 2 ....