Yes completely normal. Many breeds that exhibit slate legs as well do not get their leg color in until they are about a week old. My black Ameraucanas will often have pink toes for a few weeks but they end up with dark slate eventually.
I am glad to hear this from someone else too, I’ve never noticed pink skin from hatch turned to black, however, doing some research I found that paints. Do you have a pigmentation gene
Yes completely normal. Many breeds that exhibit slate legs as well do not get their leg color in until they are about a week old. My black Ameraucanas will often have pink toes for a few weeks but they end up with dark slate eventually.
I am glad to hear this from someone else too, I’ve never noticed pink skin from hatch turned to black, however, doing some research I found that paints. i am a breeder and breed specific to the American poultry association’s standards for silkies however, I also didn’t realize That “paints” were NOT a recognize color however, buff apparently is I always thought that was the other way around so I’m gonna do my own research on that…
On that note… I saw some silkies at
tractor supply , (their supplier is Hoovers hatchery) and they too had some with pink skin …
I have had two buyers today alone ask me about this pink skin-toned colored Silkies, so although I found information on it, I’m going to see if I can’t contact the national poultry Association regarding Silkies, and figure out what the deal is with that because I have nothing but pure Silkies with all colors except for Baugh that I breed and just here lately have some of them come out with pink skin …. This has only started to happen with my latest hatched starting back a month ago with the SAME BREEDING STOCK I’ve used to breed my silkies for years now… never had a pink pigmentation in their skin before… do you think this has anything to do with the commercial feed issue/conspiracy with purina dumar? …just a thought.., because on that note, I have sense changed my feed because I was using them for a while and had a bunch of issues my hens stop laying no eggs soon as I swapped feed them merry go again back in business, so I don’t know really weird
One of the potential issues with this project color is that the paint gene can cause pigment holes. Silkies typically have completely black skin.
However, paint silkies are sometimes hatched with pink or light skin. They can also hatch with black skin that has these pigment holes — spots on their skin where it is not black. If the pigmentation is not too light, it can fill in as they mature. To help avoid this pigmentation problem, it is common practice to breed black split to paint or white split to paint over paint.
Black split to paint hen.
Black or white split to paint is a silkie that comes from a paint breeding (so it carries the paint gene and can produce paint chicks when bred to a paint silkie), but they themselves are a solid color.
