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The silkied Ameraucana weakness affected all breeders and everyone said it was due to early inbreeding depression. The lady who had the mutation show up bred the first birds to each other, subsequent buyers (not all, but many) tried to keep the fully silkied expression rather than breeding...

It's not that. We had a Silkied Ameraucana hen, Happy, back in "the day". She survived some rather awful incubation conditions that make me wince now. A really wonderful hen, she laid every day. At about a year and a half she passed away suddenly for no discernible reason except that it was...