Rural Gardening: Incubating eggs for the first time... ALOT of questions , 1 by Catscan

Catscan wrote:
My little Silkie Serama may not actually have any Silkie genes, Hay...other than the one for unbarbed feathers. That is were the disputation comes in. Silkie feathering just shows up in some Serama lines.

Some people insist that this indicates that at some point a Silkie was used in the creation of Seramas...others that the Silkie gene in Serama is the result of an independent mutation.

I just took a couple pictures to show his tail...but I can't load them tonight. His tail is not bad--I don't know what it will look like when he is mature. It says in the Serama standard that Silkie Seramas are acceptable but should otherwise demonstrate excellent Serama type. On Feathersite they say this is actually difficult to achieve.

Here is an older picture of my guy....he has developed some since.