Breeding project- bearded OE (mine don't have them and ee's are not available)

[Silkie Princess]

Hi! So I've been thinking about hatching plans and I've already got one project starting this year. Okay so back to the story:


I want to make muffed (silkie) coloured egg layers (OE). Also @Weeg I'm not trying to copy your project Just to specify that.

Traits:
- Hard feathering
- black skin
- ideally 5 toes (but it doesn't really matter)
- beard and muffs
- blue or green egg shells



And now the colour. I have a partridge Silkie rooster I want to use, and two OE pullets (still more than 2 months till thy will be POL). One of them is white with black patches and orange-ish hackles. She is crested. The other one is grey with copper hackles and a light/white breast. She is not crested. Which one should I use?


I will post pics of them in a while


And this is the look I'm going for:

 

[Silkie Princess]

Or I could use my OE cockerel and Silkie hens Here is the cockerel and a pullet



also the colours are totally unpredictable with these birds The seller that hatched these had a gray rooster and red hens. I got a gray pullet, splash pullet and barred rooster

 

[Silkie Princess]

OE pullet

 

[Silkie Princess]

Silkie rooster. I chose this one because I LOVE his beard

 

[Chikyboy]

This seems like an interesting project. Maybe you could breed the silkie rooster over olive egger hens, and the olive egger rooster over the silkie hens, and see which offspring have the best colored eggs, and breed them back to silkies, to obtain silkie feathers, and keep any that lay color eggs, are silkied, are bearded, and and fit any of the other features best that you want.

 

[Silkie Princess]

This seems like an interesting project. Maybe you could breed the silkie rooster over olive egger hens, and the olive egger rooster over the silkie hens, and see which offspring have the best colored eggs, and breed them back to silkies, to obtain silkie feathers, and keep any that lay color eggs, are silkied, are bearded, and and fit any of the other features best that you want.

Interesting! Thanks. I will do that

 

[Weeg]

Following

 

[nicalandia]

I just can't keep up with so many breeding project.

 

[Silkie Princess]

This is the look I’m going for

 

[Silkie Princess]

This seems like an interesting project. Maybe you could breed the silkie rooster over olive egger hens, and the olive egger rooster over the silkie hens, and see which offspring have the best colored eggs, and breed them back to silkies, to obtain silkie feathers, and keep any that lay color eggs, are silkied, are bearded, and and fit any of the other features best that you want.

I want hard feathering