Silkie Cross Thread!! PICS!! - Page 12

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Originally Posted by flower 

I do not see how my little chipmunk would carry the blue gene since father is a silkie but not a mix and mother is a brown eggs layer wyandotte. I do not have a new picture yeat but the wings have dots on the feathers.

cute since parents are that way then i would guess it doesnt have the blue gene either lol but i do love the beard 

My silkie hen is sitting on eggs from either my Speckled Sussex roo, or my Frizzle roo. I was planning on attempting just sizzles, but had no place for my (unexpected) Sussex roo to go, end everyone is getting along in ,he same pen, so on Monday I'll have some interesting babies!
 

i have a hatched silkie/d'uccle and another one pipped 

heres some pics of the babies the 2 lavender/porcelain babies have different legs colors as well but have some really nice leg/foot feathers, the 2 silkie/d'uccles also have different leg coloring and one has a crest and one doesnt, all 4 have nice beards

The babies are adorable. hdowden! I've got my favorite (hatchery) Silkie boy in with 2 Bantam Spangled Cornish and I also have a Splash Silkie in with a Crele OEGB boy....you guys are seriously making me want to try some eggs to see what hatches out. It hadn't occurred to me to try to hatch any of their eggs, they're just good company for each other.

need more pics..... white silkie x would be nice to see

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Originally Posted by hdowden 

heres some pics of the babies the 2 lavender/porcelain babies have different legs colors as well but have some really nice leg/foot feathers, the 2 silkie/d'uccles also have different leg coloring and one has a crest and one doesnt, all 4 have nice beards

 

I need to know what colors and what genders these chicks parents are

they gray/silver ones are pure d'uccle 

the buffish colored ones their parents were a mix between a white silkie hen and a mille fleur d'uccle

my other silkie/d'uccle chicks are black and their parents are my 2 hens from the above mix and my lavender rooster

genders are still unknown at this point also colors will depend on if your white is a white dominate bird

now these are the parents to the buffs (the white silkie hen and miller fleur d'uccle offspring)

more pics can/should be able to be seen here https://www.facebook.com/holly.dowden.33/photos

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Originally Posted by hdowden 

they gray/silver ones are pure d'uccle 

 

the buffish colored ones their parents were a mix between a white silkie hen and a mille fleur d'uccle

my other silkie/d'uccle chicks are black and their parents are my 2 hens from the above mix and my lavender rooster

 

genders are still unknown at this point also colors will depend on if your white is a white dominate bird

 

now these are the parents to the buffs (the white silkie hen and miller fleur d'uccle offspring)

 

 

more pics can/should be able to be seen here https://www.facebook.com/holly.dowden.33/photos

Love those pumpkins, I'd love some that color! 

Here is a pic of my BBS silkie roo (from CJ's silkies) x EE.  I'm positive of the cross b/c he is the only roo around (no neighbors have any at all) - and it was a green egg from one of my two EEs.  I read that black skin is a dominant sex linked gene and that if the dad is a silkie and the mom not a silkie then chicks with black skin are female and chicks with gray skin are male. (and it also said that if the mom is a silkie and the dad is not, then female chicks have white/yellow skin and males will have gray skin)  Lets hope the genetics site was right !  S(he) has black skin.  Also 4 toes on one foot and 5 on the other - which is also common for a first generation cross from what the site said.  Looks like it'll be light colored (I have one buff EE and one dark brown EE - but I know they are cross breeds, so can't really tell which one is the actual mom - no matter, I don't really care, just more curiosity than anything else)  - it has little black spots that for some reason you don't see well here (the most prominant though is on it's other side) - and looks like a California white chick except for the black skin, feet and beard (that also doesn't show from this angle).

It hatched on Monday under it's adopted silkie mommie  :)  I have three more in an incubator due to hatch in about 10 days (I put them in the incubator because they were too far apart time wise - I was afraid the hen would give up on them not hatching at the same time). 

I've learned to collect my eggs more often now !

Such a cuite though - wonder what the other three will look like.