Black to Black breeding in Silkies

[Northwood Silkies]

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Yes, they are very cute!!

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

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All of them are shades of blue which is a blue to blue mating or black to blue mating.

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

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Sorry, hate to break it to you

they are blues. They may have feathered in dark (even really really dark) but they are still blues.

ETA: all of the pictures of all of the silkie babie to this point are pure cuteness

That's why I exhibit them.

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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Sorry, hate to break it to you

they are blues. They may have feathered in dark (even really really dark) but they are still blues.

ETA: all of the pictures of all of the silkie babie to this point are pure cuteness

That's why I exhibit them.

Agreed. The light heads and bellys give it away that they are blue. Blacks won't have that, at least not to that light grayish-green extent.

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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Yes, I have contacted the breeder and they were shocked as I was. I asked if they have hatched eggs out of that pen and they said yes and that they got all black. So, I said well maybe you mismarked the eggs on accident and they said no that they bring a pencil out and a egg carton and collect the eggs and write what pen they come out of right away.
I then said well maybe you have some dark blues in that pen that look black and they didn't say anything about that.
But it's like "How can you hatch all black chicks out of that pen" and I hatch blue and splash? Unless they hatched all dark blue chicks that look black. I did hatch out some that were dark blue and they almost look like black but they are not.
Here is a couple pics of the chicks I hatched out.......
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l120/dreamspirit12302/chicks024.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l120/dreamspirit12302/chicks023.jpg

Looks to be only one splash in that batch of babies. I see possibly 4 blacks and the rest are blues.