Chocolate Mottled Satin Silkie Breeding

[Chocolate Silkie Queen]

It is pretty common for black chickens to hatch out with some white in the wing like that, and grow a few white feathers when they are young, but have entirely black feathers by the time they are adults.

This would be equally likely for any color that is a dilution or modification of black, such as chocolate or blue or lavender.

Would that mean that they could be chocolate carriers?

 

[NatJ]

Would that mean that they could be chocolate carriers?

The white feathers do not tell anything about whether the chicks might carry chocolate or not.

If the father is chocolate, I would expect daughters to show chocolate and sons to look black but carry chocolate, assuming you're dealing with the sexlinked chocolate gene, not any other gene or combination that might make a similar color.

 

[Chocolate Silkie Queen]

The white feathers do not tell anything about whether the chicks might carry chocolate or not.

If the father is chocolate, I would expect daughters to show chocolate and sons to look black but carry chocolate, assuming you're dealing with the sexlinked chocolate gene, not any other gene or combination that might make a similar color.

My rooster is a Chocolate Mottled Satin silkie he’s the father of all chicks so I know the chocolate is a girl and the black ones are boys the white has me stumped

 

[NatJ]

My rooster is a Chocolate Mottled Satin silkie he’s the father of all chicks so I know the chocolate is a girl and the black ones are boys the white has me stumped

Ah, got it.

The chick would have been the same color as the others (black or chocolate), except that a gene called Dominant White turned all that into white. I'm guessing the mother was red with some bits of white (probably one of your Cinnamon Queens).

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This one was not expected at all! It looks solid white but has some black markings even has a little red on the shoulder but it’s hard to see in pictures

The little bits of black are because Dominant White can miss a little bit here and there, so you get bits of black leakage. The red might just be the color of the chick down, or it might indicate that the chick will show some red color later. Chicks that are black or chocolate can sometimes have bits of red leakage, and so can chicks of those same colors if they have Dominant White turning the black or chocolate into white.

 

[Chocolate Silkie Queen]

So would I have to wait to tell gender of the white chick? All the eggs were Cinnamon Queen rooster was the chocolate satin silkie. The weirdest part is this chick hatched from my Cinnamon Queen that had the darkest red and less white!

 

[NatJ]

So would I have to wait to tell gender of the white chick? All the eggs were Cinnamon Queen rooster was the chocolate satin silkie. The weirdest part is this chick hatched from my Cinnamon Queen that had the darkest red and less white!

You might be able to tell by looking for black vs. chocolate spots on the chick, but I'm not positive about that. Otherwise yes, you'd have to wait.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Chocolate rooster over black hens will give ch pullets and black cockerels
Chocolate hen over non chocolate would give no chocolates but all males will be split to chocolate. I breed chocolate silkies. If your rooster is mottled all his chicks will be split to mottled. Unless bred to another mottled bird.