I have gotten a few really nice girls from some top breeders as well as some really super males from other breeders. Other came from private breeders who do not show. I have sold off all my Splash birds. I will be concentrating on Blue and Black this year.
This is my new boy Jet, I got from Premier Silkies along with his girl. I have hatched many blues and blacks so far, but none that I could identify as being from this girl or that one. I recently seperated my best blue girl I got from Aaron Stadler last November in Lincoln, Nebraska- who has AWESOME type but is dark blue; and the black girl from PS, in with the black cockerel. All the others are brooding. I will know the next two weeks if the Stadler hen is what is giving me the partridge or not. At the time of the zebra chicks, the black girl was not laying. She started laying the last week or April and I can identify the difference in eggs color, size and shape from the Stadler hen so when they go in the hatcher tomorrow, I have cardboard up to divide them so I am sure which ones are the black girls or the Stadler hens chicks. The Stadler hen is not in condition in these pics as she was the only one laying and she was Jets favorite LOL. Her rump is wore pretty bad.
Pics of the blue and black crowd
This is the Stadler hen, and I guess I should stop caller her that and call her by her name which is Misty
This is the PS girl, whom I have named Lei. I know the pictures are not good, she would not stand still.
This is my new black boy I named Jet
New chicks
This goes along with the blog about the zebras. I hatched out these 3 chicks from the blue black pen. I really do not know where to put this as I cannot say where the colors came from.
I have talked with many silkie people, and no one can really tell me what color they are or why I got them. They are similar to a Lavender chick, but they are not. The cockerel carries lavender, but these stripes I have been told indicate partridge genes. They are mostly feathering out to be blue, but one is really dark, and one is really light. The one that has the darkest stripes is feathering out the darkest. And to be honest, the lightest one seems to have some light tan in it. I am kinda leaning toward a Blue Partridge at this point. I will post more pics at the chicks develop.
This is the way that the chicks turned out and all three are now living in TX!
This was the darkest one you see above, She turned out to be all blue with a white chest. Could probably still change.
This is the second one. She is pretty much blueish grey, but has brown hackle feathers around her neck.
And here is the third one. She appears to be a pure partridge, not much blue in her at all.
