When I breed my silkie to a production Red (ghost) she is only broody once a year and lays PR style eggs but smaller.
When I breed my Silkie to a GLW (GLW is only seasonally broody) the three that were females all go broody regularly, and when they lay (nearly never) the eggs were GLW style but...
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If you breed a Silkie rooster to a non Silkie hen, the males will be inbetween and the females will have dark skin. If you breed a non Silkie rooster to a Silkie hen the females will be light skinned and the males will be in between.
pretty much my results... now I know I'm not...
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well everything that isn't a red jungle foul or a grey jungle foul or a green jungle foul is a mongrel,
what makes a breed is the ability to pass on a set of traits reliably...
Like if I were to breed a lime green chicken by mixing three other varieties, they would just be mutts...