At what age should the Cuckoo Silkies get their Cuckoo colors?

[feather leg farms]

I bought eggs from a breeder and only three were fertile. Well only the "Cuckoo" and the splash hatched. The buff did not.

( At what age should my Cuckoo Silkie Cockerel get his cuckoo colors?

The splash pullet already has her colors, shouldn't he?

 

[feather leg farms]

Anyone?

 

[Chicky Tocks]

If it's anything like my cuckoo marans, you should start to see the patterning when the feathers start coming in.

 

[feather leg farms]

Well,

he is looking more like a lavender that a cuckoo


can i get a lavender from a cuckoo and blue black pen

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Cuckoo silkies can be black barred or blue barred. You may have a blue barred chicks. I had one that I hatched and it ended up very pretty.

 

[JessaLynn]

Do you have pictures of your cuckoo silkie feather leg farms?

 

[feather leg farms]

it is @ home
as im @ my granny's until 11:30 and then i will eat lunch @ hime with mom when she comes home for lunch and the we go back to work, i go with her

i-yi-yi

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Blue cuckoos are as obvious as black cuckoos. If you don't see striping on the feathers, it is not there. You say the birds in the pen were blue, black, splash and cuckoo? Which colour was the cock? You may have a very light blue or a splash--splashing sometimes does not develop for a very long time, other times it is present as soon as they grow feathers.

If both parents carry lavender, you could get lavender offspring, but unless you know they are carriers, don't expect it to occur.

 

[feather leg farms]

Know,
The splash were in a seperate pen.

In the pen his parents were in had blue black and cuckoo. Could i get lavender?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

As I said, if both parents are carrying it, it is possible. But don't expect that to occur. Chances of the birds carrying lavender depends partially on whose lines they are from, and whether any background lavender/self-blue breeding was being worked on.

Was the cuckoo a hen or the cock? If a hen, then only her sons will inherit the barring. If a cock, then all the offspring will inherit if he carries two copies, half (irrespective of gender) if he carries one copy.

Can you try to post a photo of your birds.