Easter egg silkies?

[ameraucanacrazy]

What are they and does anyone have pictures?

Thanks,

 

[Teresaann24]

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Never heard of a easter egg silkie.

 

[Cattitude]

Some of us have Silkie X Ameraucanas who lay blue and light turquoise eggs. Jubaby is also working on developing a standard breed from two spontaneous mutations of pure Ameraucanas who have silkied feathers. Here's a pic of some of mine (ignore the white camera hog in front):

 

[PepsNick]

Silkie feathered Ameraucanas. But that isn't just crossing a silkie and an ameraucana, it's very complicated... And people still don't know much about it.


You can always cross them though, and get a blue or green egg laying "Silkie", but since the furry silkie feathers are recessive that they'll have normal, smooth feathers.

This is jubaby's thread on it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=98335

 

[Happy Chooks]

We have 3 threads with the same topic. Please consolidate the discussion here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=406534