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Title: Silver Project
Post by: Jean on August 08, 2010, 06:54:46 PM

I hatched my second generation on my silver project last week.  I have two out of five chicks that hatched with the correct chipmunk pattern!

Chick #1:

(http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_p0002754.jpg)

(http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_p0002755.jpg)

Chick #2:

(http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_p0002756.jpg)

(http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_p0002757.jpg)

Hopefully I\'ll get some better type and some size out of these babies......

Title: Silver Project
Post by: Beth C on August 08, 2010, 09:21:01 PM

Yay for stripes! :D Can\'t wait to see them when they grow out!

Title: Silver Project
Post by: Mike Gilbert on August 08, 2010, 10:16:24 PM

Looks like they are going to be dark.  But it is progress.

Title: Silver Project
Post by: Guest on August 19, 2010, 05:08:20 PM

Super cute!!

Title: Silver Project
Post by: verycherry on August 25, 2010, 10:15:07 AM

Great!  Looking forward to seeing more pictures soon.

Title: Silver Project
Post by: Jean on August 29, 2010, 01:16:30 AM

My second set of chicks are hatching now.  This is from another pen.  

The first pen was a silver/black cockerel over silver hens.  The ones hatching now are from a silver cock bird over silver/black hens.  

So far I have two for two.

Title: Silver Project
Post by: John on August 29, 2010, 12:18:43 PM

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silver cock bird over silver/black hens

When I\'ve made the crosses that is the way I go.  I tried it the other way many moons ago and never was able to get good silver color on the cockerels...so I gave up a couple years of that breeding project.
Whether it\'s using blacks with wheatens, silvers or some other variety I like to use a black female with a male of the other variety that I\'m trying to improve so the sex-linked silver/gold issue gets taken care of right away.

Title: Silver Project
Post by: Jean on October 11, 2010, 03:57:28 PM

Here are a couple pictures of the chicks as they have matured.  Both are pullets:

(http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_004.jpg)

(http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_003.jpg)

(http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_002.jpg)

(http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_001.jpg)

Title: Silver Project
Post by: Mike Gilbert on October 12, 2010, 01:13:33 PM

See my August post in this thread.   You can predict this by the chick down.   Good silver coloring in females involves a lot of recessives.   These will need to be bred back to pure silvers or take the risk of losing some of those recessives altogether.