Chocolate mottled x paint silkies

[NatJ]

Let's collaborate this spring!

If so, we should take it to a private message, or start a different thread, to avoid confusing this thread.

I picked up 8 silkie chicks a few days ago as they have nice buffs to bring in new genes to my line. But one was satin. It'll break my heart to sell him/her, and deal with the possibility that these other buffs all may kick out a satin.

A satin is just like a normal silkie, except that it does not have the gene for silkie feathering, right?

The gene for silkie feathering is recessive, so a chicken that shows silkie feathering can NOT be carrying the gene for not-silkie feathering. I don't think you have to worry about using the silkie chicks in your breeding program. Just don't breed them with any satins, and you won't get any satin chicks.