Breeding and Showing Silkies: Making it to Champion Row

Description

Whether you’re a breeder, exhibitor, or just love having Silkies around, you will find “Breeding and Showing Silkies: Making it to Champion Row” to be packed full of information! This book is a MUST read for every Silkie enthusiast!

• The Standard is what poultry judges go by when judging exhibition poultry. You need to understand the Standard and what the traits mean.
  • In this book we have descriptions of the traits listed in the Standard with side-by-side picture comparisons of Silkies that are strong in the traits and weak in those traits
• Information on what successful Silkies breeders look for when pairing their birds.
• A Silkie needs to be housed and conditioned properly, learn what experienced Silkie exhibitors do along with pictures of their set ups.
• Proper washing is a must if a Silkie is to look its absolute best for the judge! This is where you will learn specifics on washing and preparing you Silkie for the show that you won’t find elsewhere.
• Also information on the colors of both recognized and non-recognized varieties of Silkies.
• Beautiful color pictures of 16 winning Silkies from 16 different exhibitors.
• Parasites and other ailments along with treatments
• Full size 8 1/2 x 11 book with over 240 color pictures!
• and much more!