Silkie Feathering in Chickens | Genetics, Causes, Breeding & More
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2021
- This video is an in-depth guide to those looking to breed or purchase Silkies, Satin, Silkied Seramas or any other breeds/breed projects that involve Silkie Feathering crossed with Normal feathering. This video goes over the how the silkie gene (h) affects their feather structure, as well as how the gene works so you can effectively breed for or against it in your breeding program. In this video we go over 6 difference punnet squares to show all of the possible combinations of breeding to get (or eliminate) silkie feathering.
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Thank you for watching! 😁
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This seriously helped me out so much! Im working on doing research on chickens and i want to know the best i can about bird genetics and for some reason silkie genetics fascinate me! Thank you!
Aww thank you so much! I’m so glad! ❤️ If you ever have any questions please let me know! And if you’re ever looking for other breeds that can come in silkie feathering, check out silkied Seramas and Hedemoras! 😁
Thank you, glad to have found your channel and someone who's into chicken genetics too! Was wondering if you are working on a video about mottling or lacing?
Thank you! I am not working on that now but may in the future. 😊 In a nutshell, Mottling is recessive just like silkie feathering. 😊 The gene symbol is mo, and the gene symbol for the absence of mottling is Mo+
Sometimes in young birds that are split to mottling, they will have a few feathers tipped with white. This usually goes away when they get their “real” adult plumage. 😊 Feel free to message me on Facebook/Email/Instagram and I can send you some resources on lacing. 😁
@@CedarShadeFarm what is the bloodline of that checken?
@@larrymontejo7851 Which chicken are you wondering about? 🙂
@@CedarShadeFarm ma'am can I ask u something. I wonder, during breeding in gamefowl. during mating
the fighting style or gameness which from side inherit the broodcoock or the brodhen?
@@larrymontejo7851 I do raise raise gamefowl nor do I breed that behavior in chickens so I can’t say. From my own flock, I notice aggressive dads tend to have aggressive sons, but I breed against it so. It might come from the hen’s side too, haven’t tested it. I suspect other factors are involved as well.
thanks! i learned alote from your videos, can you make a video about muff and tuffs please?
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed them! I definitely plan on doing that in the future!
heyyy, tysm! I've been trying to find reliable information about chicken genetics for the longest time!
right now, I was about to breed one of my silkie roos back to one of the plain-feathered pullets he fathered nearly a year ago; she has a really beautiful silver-laced plumage that I'm curious on how would carry on to her offspring, and I suspect she's heterozygous for silkie feathering on top of that!
however, I wondered whether that would raise concerns for inbreeding since they're so closely blood-related 🤔, what do you think?
Hi! That should be a safe cross. Unless there is a known genetic fault in your line (wry tail, cross beak, etc), breeding mother/son, father/daughter, half-siblings, etc. should not be an issue. Sometimes you can get away with breeding siblings, but personally that is a bit too close for me. 🙂
Very cool videos I'm trying to learn more about the genes in chickens and quail
How about Frizzel chickens?
We have a silkie serama cross that gets Frizzel feathers but so far it's all the boys I think that's just so far because there is Frizzel hens out there somewhere lol
I have one Frizzel rooster now and several serama hens smooth feathers
Thank you for the kind words! Frizzle is a bit more complicated because birds that are homozygous for frizzle have a poor quality of life. There is also a frizzle inhibitor gene.
Frizzle is an incomplete dominant gene. Birds with one copy of the gene are frizzles, and birds with two copies are called frazzles. You should never breed two frizzles together as that will create some frazzles. 🙂 A heterozygous frizzle bird bred to a normal feathered bird should make 50% frizzled offspring, and 50% normal feathered offspring.
Let me know if you have any other questions! 😊
@@CedarShadeFarm thanks I remember that now so yes my roo is hetro frizzle and all my hens have regular feathers so I should get some frizzles when I breed them together
The incomplete dominate genes is what I'm looking into about quail too... Just the way you put that makes more sense to me there too
Silver quail in homozygous have poor outcomes too but it heterozygous they are fine
But breeding this on different bases gives lots more colours and complexity
When I got my quail they were all bred together and I was Givin chicks at different stages too
So it's been a puzzle but a nice one I think lol
Thanks for the help
@@mikecavemansavage1936 No problem! It’s a very complex science, but one of my favorites. It’s so cool to see the outcomes of a breeding program once you figure out what you’re working with!
@@CedarShadeFarm yes exactly
I'm excited about my seramas because after breeding them this spring with 2 different roosters
I ended up with lots of colours and patterns with the 2nd rooster because he was more colorful
Mottled, laced different colors and different colours without lacing
I need to start keeping track of what I bred so I don't get confused
I'm excited I got these colours without really trying
But learning about why it happened is very cool to me anyway and others but not all my friends get excited about bird colours lol
HELP MEE
My Partridge Silkie hatched 16 chicks (their father was a normal feathered bird) and 4 of them had silky feathers?????
Ps: we NEVER had any silkie males😮😮
So does that mean that their father had a silkie gene?
Does the mom have silkie feathering? If not, she's not a silkie. 🙂 If she is a silkie but the dad isn't, then the dad must've been carrying one copy of the silkie feathering (h+) gene. Silkie feathering is recessive, so normal feathered birds can carry it. If neither have silkie feathering, then they each must've been carrying one gene for silkie feathering.
@@CedarShadeFarm Yes! My female has silkie feathers
@@wxndxedit6151 Ok! That explains it. 😁 So her genotype is h+/h+ and the male's genotype is H/h+, the chicks should be 50/50 H/h+ (normal feathered split to silkie feathering) and h+/h+ (homozygous for silkie feathering).
@@wxndxedit6151 I talk about this pairing at 9:14 😁