Anyone ever crossed EE's with Silkies?

[Guitartists]

I think it's about accidental discovery vs. deliberate breeding...... sometimes you stumble across something, but really you must have a goal, set of standards and a good game plan

 

[Mesa]

I was under the impression you couldnt take a blue/green egg and eventually get blue from them. Something about the brown undertones from the brown eggs and blue eggs making them green??? Anyone care to explain this better than I can? Help???
If you want blue eggs start with blue eggs, not brown. Use an Araucana or Ameraucana, not an EE.

 

[Byrdj]

You are correct. It would take years of selecting the bluest eggs for hatching to breed the brown pigment (causes the eggs to be green, not blue), why not start with Ameraucanas to make the process faster and easier?

Dipsy, do you have any pictures of your green egg laying Silkies or their eggs?

 

[P0U1TRYP3RS0N]

I hatched a silkie x EE cross last April. She was too cute! Unfortunetly, she died this fall. I still have both the hen and the roo though, and I have some of the silkies eggs in the bator right now so maybe I'll get some more AmeriSilkies! The the little pullet that hatched in April was white with splashes of black (the EE roo is the same color), blue-ish skin, and five toes (but not real well defined) and she had a vaulted skull. And she was wild....Not as docile as a silkie. Obviously, she had normal feathering. Cuz the silkie gene is recessive.