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Even if the parents are not physically a frizzle they can carry the gene and produce one.

Looks like a frizzle.

If you breed the paint to the cuckoo you may get Blue black and splash. The black in the silkies is used for bbs color and the white may be recessive in your case.

How old should the chicks be before you cull for SQ.?

My two chicks are a month old to my eye the quality looks great. When we talk about SOP from chick to adult at a month old what can you tell would be SQ attributes to look at? For instance we can look at feet and color but some chicks may have a little white on black as a chick but will grow out...

For the silkie bantum males should be 22 oz and females 18 oz. The regular size Silkies the male can be 4 lbs and females 3 lbs. See poultrykeeper.com Exhibiting Silkies. It gives you a lot of info.

No not at this time. I think there are show frizzles but I don't think painted is a color for silkies. Been trying to research but painted is not in the color list for silkies

I also have what I feel could be SQ silkies.but even though not too many people are on this thread now in the beginning, if you read through, it will give you a good idea of weather or not your birds would be good in a show. In the last five years when this thread was begun. It gives you...