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Silkies are known for laying White or very light tinted eggs, so no chance of getting Olive eggers with Silkie/EE cross. For Olive you really need dark eggers. you will get all ranges of production, from bad egg layers like pure silkies to EE like production and everything in between.

If that is the case, the EE hen must have had clear yellow shanks, this would have produced a sex linked cross, males with Id from EE hen would have been Id/id+(inheriting the id+ from silkie sire) and white skin. The black skined chick was the id+/- pullet.

Any pics of your EE? Is the EE the only possible sire of the cross? You mentioned EE/Silkie cross, in Chicken breeding the first half of the cross mentioned is the Sire/Rooster so EE/Silkie cross would indicate that the EE is the sire, if that is the case going by the unhatched eggs the sire is...

That happens with EE, some are heterozygous for the blue egg shell, so Ameraucanas are better to use if possible

It would be much easier if you were okay having feathered shanks. even if you were looking for normal feathering. Silkie x Americana/EE = F1s will have normal feathers and shank feathering and lay blue eggs, you may just want to stop at F1 due to EEs being more productive than silkies and the...

Silkie feathered cross to a normal feathered chicken will produce normal feathering because silkie feathering is recessive. The first cross would be to cross a Silkie rooster to your "Americanas", then you can do a back cross to Silkies or Sibling to Sibling cross and see what you get.

It would appear that you are describing a Standard sized Silkie without shank feathering that lays blue eggs. Hatchery type Silkies sometimes come without feathering shanks, you may want to start there and then add the blue egg shell gene to it which is quite strait forward. Hatchery Silkie...