Barred Silkie

[RyderTheChicken]

So i have a barred Plymouth rock rooster and a white silkies. I was wondering if a Barred Silkie was possible.

 

[sylviethecochin]

 

[EggSighted4Life]

So i have a barred Plymouth rock rooster and a white silkies. I was wondering if a Barred Silkie was possible.

Hi there.

It's called cuckoo in Silkies. They exist. But you won't get Silkie chicks in a first generation cross with a hard feathered birds. Bred back to the Silkie or to each other you will get some Silkied off spring.

Taken from google.

ETA: white is wild card color and could be hiding others under it.

 

[RyderTheChicken]

what color would be best to use then?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

what color would be best to use then?

Maybe black or blue or Lavender or cuckoo even buff would work... depends on what your goal is and how long you have to dedicate to this type of project.

I hatched 2 cuckoo Silkie cockerels out of indigoeggs in Florida shipped to CA... WAY pricey, and super weak hatch... but sometimes ya gotta do what you got to... to get the genetics you want. Unfortunately, I decided Silkies were too broody for me and no longer keep that breed. But they were awfully cute... and it's a worthy project!

Check out this calculator...
http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

It doesn't account for leakage and ya gotta figure out what the little symbols mean like split to or recessive for... The Db... might mean double barred factor or dominant for barring??? Sorry, I figured it out completely... but I do have lot's of fun playing with it and trying. And it can save a LOT of time.

I THINK Silkies are typically recessive white.. but I know dominant white exist in them. Please don't take my word as scripture as sometimes details mix. But have fantastic fun researching and chickeneering!

 

[sylviethecochin]

The Db... might mean double barred factor or dominant for barring???

Dark brown. It moves pigment on the chicken.

 

[sylviethecochin]

what color would be best to use then?

Any colour that has Extended Black as a base gene (that's lavender, blue, splash, dominant white, black, chocolate, etc.) Buff is wheaten based and it'll make some messy leakage.


A simple google search will show a lot of neat looking "barred buff" birds, but they're usually English orpingtons. This is what a barred x buff usually looks like (google)

EDT: Incidentally, Barred rocks usually carry silver, not gold, so you'd [most likely] get a silver version of the above if you used a BR cock. The above hen had a BuffOrp father and a BR mother, which is why she does not carry barring.