Purple Silkie

[PurpleChicken]

After a lifetime of trying to breed a purple silkie my latest is amazing.
Finding birds with that recessive purple gene and breeding them is almost
impossible. There have been so many failures and I was beginning to lose
faith. When this guy hatched he was black but eventually his purple tint
started to come out.

Now I need to find a hen that will mate with him and carry the gene through.

 

[DoctorGoose]

Seriously? No photoshopping? It's a purple chicken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WICKED!

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Photoshopping? Is that like shopping for a picture or something? I'm
not very savvy at that tech lingo.

And for those naysayers I didn't use the same hair color that woman on
the Christian TV channel uses.

I need Tiffany, Elderoo or Greyfields to help explain the gene stuff. They
could explain it in a scientifical sorta way.

I just drink beer and mate with chickens, I mean mate my chickens.

 

[silkiechicken]

Don't you mean you breed your chickens? Since the chickens are the ones doing the mating?

And photo chopping is when you alter an image after you take it by using a popular program called adobe photoshop.

Looks like a dyed black silkie from the looks of leg and toe feather pigments.

 

[ImAngel]

Thats INCREDIBLE!! Wow what a pretty chicken!!

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Uhhh. It's 2PM on a friday here. Anything is possible.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Thanks!!! I'm gonna try and clone him if I can't get him to mate with another
chicken. I may try a white silkie so it will be a lighter shade of purple. I'm
not sure if it will work this way but it's worth a shot. He is a horny little guy.

 

[DoctorGoose]

No--it's not the genetics I'm worried about....it's just....it's a PURPLE CHICKEN! It's like seeing a pregnant mule! Or....or....or a cow in Brooklyn! He's AMAZING! I think you should clone him. Seriously wicked. Clone several of him!

 

[PurpleChicken]

I'm really glad everyone like him but I've got to be careful.

This is my last clone:

 

[MandyH]

I have a two year old dd so I know about mixing finger paints and all , but how in the ^%$# do you make a purple chicken. That doesn't even look real. I am totally in awe and completely confused.

AND a two headed chicken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Lord, help us all.