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Thank you to everyone for your replies, I really appreciate this. My eggs are starting to pip, and I can't wait for the tiny little fluffballs to emerge! This has been a wonderful welcome to the BYC community, I'm so glad I joined :)

That's what had me so confused about them! I'm not an expert, but without seeing their egg colour I would have never questioned the "purebred" label. Like I mentioned earlier, there are hatchery bred silkies that have way more faults (red combs, single combs, four toes) and yet they still are...

Absolutely, to many people colourful eggs are a bonus. Hence the existence of every cross-bred moss/sage/olive/easter egger.

I would assume that my roo comes from line with cream coloured eggs, but of course he doesn't lay eggs to confirm that! I am not planning on breeding anything beyond healthy, pet-quality silkies so the green eggs are probably a non-issue anyways. I just don't want anyone feeling duped.

I personally like their green eggs! I wondered that about their chicks as well. I plan to keep a few, so hopefully I'll get a couple of pullets out of the mix and find out!

Sorry about that, here is a photo Edit: still figuring put how to comment. The bottom egg is the silkie egg, next to a light brown and a white. Rooster is bottom left.

Hi all, I have a bit of an odd question. I own two "purebred" silkie hens, both from the same breeder, but different clutches and ages. Both hens lay pale green eggs. Now if my birds had any of the faults associated with being mixed breeds, the green eggs wouldn't stump me. But these hens are...