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    Marans ?

    I believe the difference is that French copper marans have the copper hackles and regular bbs don't. If you want to keep the copper color in their chicks, get a blue or splash copper. You can breed black copper to plain splash too, you'll just get varying amounts of copper in the hackles of the...
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    (Sort of) Valentine's Day Hatch-A-Long

    I do know what they're mixed from. I don't expect them to lay like production crosses or laying breeds. They're mixed mostly from different decorative bantams. My mixed breed flock is not aggressive – not to me or to their flockmates. I wouldn't keep any aggressive birds, as temperament can be...
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    Silkie breeding pair

    If I'm not mistaken, what you have is a blue rooster that very likely carries chocolate, and a hen that doesn't. So, their sons would be black and blue with a 50% chance of carrying chocolate. Their daughters would be black, blue, chocolate and mauve.
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    Ask ChickQueen77 Anything!

    Do you have goats? If so, what breeds do you have?
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    BC Marans x leghorn?

    Their chicks would probably be white with black spots and some red/copper leakage. Eggs would be light brown in color. F1 crosses tend to be better layers and hardier than purebreds. If you want some extra layers, I'd say go for it, it's worth a shot.
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    Confused by feathers.. hidden silkie genes?

    The chick definitely looks silked, which would mean that at least one of your hens carries the gene for silked feathering too. The rooster who you said is half silked, half smooth sounds like a fascinating bird, though!
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    Breeding silkies

    If they come from a sexlinked cross, then yes.
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    Silkie gender

    I'm going with pullet.
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    Breeding silkies

    You'll get chicks with leakage only from the buff hen, the others should work just fine with a chocolate roo. From the splash hens you'll get mauve pullets and blue cockerels. From the blue hen you'll get chocolate and mauve pullets, and black and blue cockerels. From the buff you'll get...
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    Chocolate mottled x paint silkies

    It's not looked down upon, just has the potential to be messy. The reason I personally would discourage this is because it creates paints that carry mottled, which could get confusing once you breed them later down the line. Breeding splits in general isn't bad by any means. But it should be...
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    Dominant vs Recessive White

    If you have a white hen and a splash rooster, and they've only produced white so far, then she's very likely to be dominant white. If she was recessive white and the rooster was carrying it, you'd see about 50% white chicks and 50% blue chicks. If you've had any blue paints or whites with red...
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    What color will she be?! I have never had one or seen this color before!

    So, you have a few options for what the chick could be. It's hard to know 100% with just that one picture and before its feathers have started to come in. But because of how indistinct the chipmunk stripe is, I think it's more likely the mother is the non-Wyandotte. If the mother was the...
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    What color will she be?! I have never had one or seen this color before!

    She's blue based and has what looks like a blurry striped pattern, which is often seen in partridge. Do you have any idea what colors her parents could've been? Certainly a very cute little chickie!
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    Dark blue eggs?

    I'd suggest choosing an actual breed that lays blue, not crosses like EEs or Azures if you don't want to end up with a lot of variety in egg colors. Crosses like that are often heterozygous for the blue egg gene, which not only means the eggs would be paler blue or more greenish, but also that...
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    what breed?

    I'm not a huge chicken breeds expert, but I'll give it my best guess. 1st picture - Swedish Flower 2nd picture - Barbu d'Anvers
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