What's wrong with their feathers?

[Germaine_11.20]

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Glad he stood the trip well and is lookin' good .
I've been told Ameraucanas are recessive white , so using your white roo on the silkied splash should give you birds that are regular feathered blue split for both silkie and recessive white ; the next generation innerbred with themselves could produce some that are both silkie and white but you should get both types of feathering plus black , blue and splash also . However that roo , crossed on Katy's birds , bred as if he were not recessive and produced gold and black patterns and also whites in the first generation . Its possible he may throw whites in the first generation for you also .

Hi Steve and thank you for the help! Genetics is not a strong point of mine (because I have never made it one) guess I am going to have to just do it.

I may be asking you a few more questions. By the way, I enjoy reading your posts on the meat bird threads, speaking of which I am cutting up 3 geese to jerky. I will let you know how it turns out.

 

[Yay Chicks!]

This thread is really out of my league, but I just keep reading because the birds are really beautiful and I love the watching this project progress. That rooster is really quite lovely.

 

[welasharon]

I too have been keeping up with this thread. I don't have any interest in breeding chickens but it is very interesting to watch this process and the enthusiasm has been nice to see.

 

[DragonEggs]

Well I'd like to try and get eggs now while the weather is cooling off. Makes for better shipping.

What step are you guys on now in the breeding? How did the breeding with the normal feathered birds come out? Are they old enough to breed back to the silkied parent yet?

Man Im nosy, LOL

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I think all of the F1 crosses have been from Julie as well. As expected they are smooth feathered and blue. It will be several more months until they are of reproductive age as well.

 

[SteveH]

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Your welcome . I'm still in the early learning phase of chicken genetics myself , but always willing to share what little I know . I'll be grateful to learn the results of both breeding that white Ameraucana to the silkied splashes , and and how the goose jerky turns out

 

[wolftracks]

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Why are we always looking at the same birds?????

 

[TurtleFeathers]

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I would imagine because not many of these birds exist right now - and the ones that DO exist haven't matured to the point of reproducing yet. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Julie is the only one working on the second generation - the rest of us are still on the first generation. And I'm WAAAAAY behind everyone else on the first generation - my only silkied Ameraucana won't even be two weeks old til Tuesday!

Speaking of which, just HOW MANY of these first generation birds DO exist???

 

[ChooksChick]

I wanted to let you all know that I've been researching the birds from whom all Ameraucana and Araucana are descended from often have Silken feathers pop up, as well! It's apparently in there at the root level, so to speak, and isn't found often, but not unheard of, at all...and I'm hoping to get some of the imports that have this characteristic!!

At any rate- I sincerely feel that this info can put the question of a Silkie accidentally being introduced out to pasture, because there are others with Easter Eggers on BYC with spontaneous Silken birds, as well. I'm looking for the thread...I'll post it when I find it.


Edited because I just realized I'd typed 'foot level' instead of 'root level.' Hilarious!

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

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I'm also wondering if the genes responsible for these silkied birds (and perhaps even the first Silkies) is the same as the one responsible for the "wooly" Hedemora chickens, another isolated landrace.

Seems the silkie gene is very primitive, and may have a tendency to pop up in certain populations.