Chocolate/Dun Silkies?

[friedeggs]

IMHO you can sell a bird for whatever sum of money someone is willing to pay for it. Considering the rarity of a new color and the possibilities of refining that color through a careful breeding program, a bird like that would be worth $300 or more to a lot of people. We all know that genetic mutations are tricky and there are no guarantees you'll ever get another one to hatch just like the parent, but that's the chance serious breeders are willing to take to try and perfect a new color.

Personally, I don't care if she "promoted" it as a kumquat....if I saw the bird and had the opportunity to try for a new color, I WOULD BUY IT. Other people can easily fight over the semantics of what to call it , but the breeder is the one spending gobs of time and money working on the actual birds. Let's be encouraging to them, they're on the cutting edge of something wonderful!!!!

featherbaby, wonderful

Whether the bird is really dun or recessive sex link chocolate:
Ask Suze how many years she has in them to get back the silkie traits. Thats a lot of time and dedication.
As far as sex linked. time and record keeping will tell. Maybe a sibling breeding off the offspring.

As for spending a lot of dough. Should self blue/ lav silkies be brought up? Or Sigrids paints?​

 

[friedeggs]

Oh and for the curious w/ the wants to read on importing recessive sex linked chocolates:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=417983

 

[pistol123]

I have a true hershey milk chocolate silkie hen and would love to reproduce this color, how would I go about this, she has great type and would like to keep that as well as her color?
Thank you

 

[gumbii]

wow... everyone confused themselves in this thread... LOL.. great thread btw...

the way i learned it is that fawn/dun breeds like blue... same principals and rules... choc kind of breeds like lavender/self blue... but the males need two genes... kind of tricky, but can be done if organized well...


i'm working with fawn silver duckwing OEGB's and i'm starting a EE allele fawn/dun project... i recently hatched several khaki roo's... check them out...

next to fawn silver duckwing pullet...

and they are correct about seramas being the only true choc gene carriers in the US... oh, and those orps that just got imported but cost $texas to buy...

but if you want a fawn silkies, why not breed fawn polish to black cochins for a couple of generations and then introduce them to silkies...?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Speaking of which:

My current generation of chocolate and khaki silkies. They are much lighter shades this year than last. Here is a photo of (clockwise from left) a khaki partridge, a chocolate, a white and a khaki.

The khaki--I've enhanced her colouring a bit as it did not photograph well--she's a very pale slightly browner than taupe hue:

Milk chocolate in hue:

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Breed her to a really nice typed black. Assuming she is dun-based, about half the offspring should be chocolate and about half black. Unless she is pure for dun, in which case all offspring will receive a copy, but probably be darker than she is.

In either case, you can breed the offspring back to her or to each other to get both khakis and chocolates.

 

[PrestonSloan08]

I think mine is chocolate!! When I bought her they said she was a blue hen but she definatly has a brown color to her!! I will post a pic when I get home in a few!! Or maybe she is just really dirty!! But then again all of my silkies got in the rain the other day for some reason!! So she got washed off pretty good!!

 

[PrestonSloan08]

ok here she is!! and now that i get a better look at her i really dont think she is blue anymore!!! and excuse her crest it was nice and full but for some reason it just now got messed up!!! hha and the wind is blowing her tail!!

her name is Beyonce!!

 

[StevenW.]

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She looks Sun Bleached..

 

[StevenW.]

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Absolutely Beautiful!