I know some people don’t believe that the paint gene can be carried, but I have to disagree with that due to my own experiment of taking black (splits) and black hens (splits) that were produced from my paint pen and they still throw paint babies about 25% of the time.
Anyway so my question is...
I have a black satin frizzle silkie who is a DNA confirmed pullet by iQ bird testing. She is about 7-8 weeks old and has started developing leakage. I thought only cockerels/ roosters developed leakage. Both parents are black. Please help! Pictures attached
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I’m new here! Sorry if I’m posting this in the wrong place. I know that you are suppose to breed silkies to the same colors minus a few exceptions. Such as a paint to a black. However, I have a silkie hen who has gone broody and would love to let her have some eggs to hatch. However I do not...