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    Another Silkie Breeding Question! Mottled Silkies!!

    I'm not a breeder of any mottled varieties, nor have I had the chance to work with mottling in my own birds yet, so I don't know the finer details of breeding mottled chickens that an experienced breeder would. I did read that when mottled is bred only to mottled for too many generations, the...
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    My Entire Budgie/Parakeet Flock

    Your budgies are so beautiful! Out of curiosity, do you have any violets or have you had any in the past?
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    6 week old silkie roo or hen?

    With that comb at this age I'm saying cockerel.
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    Another Silkie Breeding Question! Mottled Silkies!!

    That would be correct for black mottled and chocolate mottled, but since mauve is on a blue base, it would follow the same rules as BBS (black, blue, splash). So, mauve mottled x mauve mottled = 50% mauve mottled, 25% chocolate mottled, 25% mauve/chocolate splash mottled If you wanted to hatch...
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    Another Silkie Breeding Question! Mottled Silkies!!

    No, you absolutely can breed two mottled birds together. What I meant originally was in the case if you only had one black mottled bird and wanted to breed more. Mottling is recessive and breeds true, so breeding together mottled chickens is the best (and easiest) way to go. There are multiple...
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    8 week old silkie sexing

    The chocolate in the top right corner of the 2nd picture looks like a male. The rest aren't screaming cockerel yet comb-wise, though the comb is hard to see in the picture of the frizzle. The silkies are either mixed or poor quality.
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    Roos?

    Agreed, cinnamon queens are sexlinked – females are predominantly red/brown, while males are white, sometimes with red leakage around their wings and back. If these are cinnamon queens, they're roosters.
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    Blue or self blue?

    From what I understand, the chick's grandmother from the father's side might’ve been blue under her white. You have no blue hens, only self blue/lavender, right? And the father looks black. If the grandmother was hiding a blue gene, half of her chicks would've been blue, so since you're saying...
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    Genetics and egg color, mystery egg

    I'm pretty sure Cochins are supposed to lay light brown medium-large eggs, so I'd guess Cochin too.
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    What breeding charts would you like to see made?

    Breeding charts are a very useful tool, especially for people new to genetics. They've helped me a lot over the years. Now I'm thinking I could put my artistic abilities to use and create some visual breeding charts for different colors/genes. I will likely prioritize colors and traits I...
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    Another Silkie Breeding Question! Mottled Silkies!!

    Mottling is recessive, it needs two copies for it to fully express. Here's a chart I found online: Well, preferably, you'd need a black mottled. You could take any mottled color and breed it to black for a couple of generations until the color is pure black, but that's more work. I suggest...
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    How to Breed Chocolate Silkies?

    You don’t necessarily need any other colors. Chocolate can just be bred to chocolate and will breed true. If you're asking what colors you can breed to chocolate while you're trying to breed it in, I suggest black, as chocolate is technically just black with a dilution gene. If you want to mix...
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    Partridge???

    If you also have a splash rooster, then a blue partridge chick is very possible.
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    Partridge???

    Based on the photo, I was thinking the chick might be blue partridge. Maybe your black rooster carries some partridge genetics? Otherwise, like CascadiaRiver said, blue partridge shouldn't be possible. I suppose another possibility would be lavender partridge, but it's less likely, as both...
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    Silkies or mixes?

    Silkie mixes can have 5 toes too, since Silkies often pass that trait on. The absence of 5 toes would indeed suggest it's not a pure Silkie though. I agree that if they are Silkies they should have black skin. (There are some exceptions to that, like cuckoos, but usually they will have black...
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