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I will add that if you are crossing to a non-cuckoo, make sure it has as dark skin as possible. Getting the girls skin and combs dark is easier than the boys. For one thing, only one barring gene to contend with. Also do not have to contend with testosterone, which redens combs.
 
I'm sorry . here it is ( sites.google.com/site/zijdehoenders/t&dcreating/... ) . It's the second one down from the top titled --- zijdehoenders basics about silkie genetics . I have found it very interesting and imformative . Thank you -- Tammy .B
 
What colour can be this one? Boy who's the owner thinks its silver, i know it's not, but this barring is very light, kind of diluted, so it's barred by how?and those 2 dark spots on wings, confusing. I guess this is the cockerel and the other two from the hatch are pullets, they look normally - dark cuckoo.

 
I have hatched out 3 chicks from my cuckoo pen that look like that. I suspect they are coming from a cuckoo hen that I purchased 3 years ago which may have blue bred instead of black bred. The blue gene is diluting the color. This is my guess anyway.
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Mine look like they are Delaware marked(weird). I can see faint barring in the hackles, dark color in the wing area and the tail feathers have darker barring(darker than the hackles but still light coloring). I took pics but the flash was firing thus fading the barring even more so that you could not see details in the pic. So it could be that there is some blue floating around in the gene pool. Even if it were Silver Cuckoo I not sure how it would come to be so light in color... but I am sure someone may know more about it.
 
blue.. it may be, many of blacks here are breed with blue ones, but so light hm.
those dark spots on wings are invisible now.
I thought maybe it could be pearl grey? but barred? boy says that barring is "on silver" ground colour as looks at it
 

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