Silkie thread!

[Fancychooklady]

Thank you. He is dumber than a bag of hammers though. Good thing he is cute. He is as dingy as they come. lol

Lol, a few roos ( kangaroos ) short in the top paddock. Or a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

 

[subhanalah]

I had a sizzle from pure parents. Only ever happened once , but it does happen.

She looked like a polish.

did you post the wrong picture? I don't see a sizzle.

 

[Fancychooklady]

did you post the wrong picture? I don't see a sizzle.

She's the smooth feather in the foreground .

 

[subhanalah]

Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but I thought this was a sizzle.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but I thought this was a sizzle.

Sizzle's come in smooth and frizzle feather.

 

[subhanalah]

Sizzle's come in smooth and frizzle feather.

Is that the only possibility when you get a smooth silkie? That the drizzle gene is involved? I thought smooth/fluff and straight/fizzle were two genes independent of eachother?

 

[MumsyII]

Is that the only possibility when you get a smooth silkie? That the drizzle gene is involved? I thought smooth/fluff and straight/fizzle were two genes independent of eachother?

I found this in a google search. It explains what's going on in the feather mutation better than I could.

"The Frizzle gene (F) is incompletely dominant, with exhibition quality Frizzles usually with one dose only of the Frizzle gene (F/f+).
But there is a frizzle modifying gene (mf) which is recessive. The mf gene when homozygous (two doses) is a strong modifier of the frizzle trait. Birds with one dose of the frizzle gene (F/f+) & two doses of the modifying gene (mf/mf) may appear predominantly smooth, & may be mistaken for non-frizzle (& not of exhibition quality). Frizzle birds homozygous for both F & mf (F/F mf/mf) may be mistaken for heterozygous F/f+ (one dose of Frizzle gene) with no modifiers (Mf+/Mf+). It is mentioned in the Hutt book that this mf gene is very common in non-frizzled breeds."

 

[Aria]

thanks for sharing...these ARE BEAUTIFUL BIRDS. REGARDS, ARIA

 

[Lacey1988]

Oh my , they should make beautiful babies. Tell your cousin not to squeeze too tight around the reproductive organs or there will be no babies.

Ha don't worry I hurried up and got her after the picture was taken.

 

[I<3MyChickens-Jewel&Flash]

NEED ADVICE.

I have a hen sizzle who has tonight gone broody. Been on eggs since 10am. But 6 hours after an egg was la7d. Could my other hen lay it. But the only other hen had chicks who are 1.5mo. Idk what's going on. But I was getting bad eggs out. Since I've noticed last few days she sleeps on them but never stayed at night. 14 eggs were laid. 3 were rotten. I candle the other to see if they were rotten and I see 2 have nice veins and heartbeat. I'm so c9nfused. Why would she still lay eggs....Ahhhhhhhhh lol