CherieNZ
Chirping
- Apr 16, 2021
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Something interesting I found with our Silkie crosses is that all of the roo's have straight combs. Only some of the girls have signs of pea/rose/walnut combs.
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If this is true that would be PERFECT!I did some reading about black skin genetics… it's no simple thing; black skin is determent with gene FM, but also with gene that repress FM…http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245302/ ; http://www.extension.org/pages/6536...backyard-flocks:-an-introduction#.Vhy2qStRKxU . It looks like if you breed pure silkie roo and non silkie hen... all the dark skinned chicks will be pullets and light skinned cockerels. The only eksplenation about my dark skin boy is that the parents were someting else; it's possible that the mother is white naked neck silke cross and the father is naked neck and the chick inherit the dark skin from his mother...
That is amazing! It’s like someone took a highlighter and colored it in! So intrigued by that!