From silkie mix to new breed?

[Clodill4rel]

This one is definitely Oakley's. Another white chick might not be a silkie either because the legs are very light. I haven't checked if it's feathers are silked or not.
Hopefully the dark, stiped chick will be a cockerel. So far it's the biggest.
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Ollie has a pretty interesting pattern on his feathers. It's like very faint red stripes on each feather. The camera has a hard time picking it up.
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Oakley's other chicks will hatch in 6 days.

Excited to see !!!

 

[Cloverr39]

Since this is the day that chicks turn 1 week and 4 weeks old I decided to do a little update.

 

[Cloverr39]

So far 2 more chicks from Oakley have hatched. More have pipped. One white and one with chipmunk stripes.

 

[Cloverr39]

1 More white from Oakley. Seems to have light skin though. Probably came from Oakley considering her mother was a brahma. 2 from Oakley's mother. Both seem to have light skin and legs, so they should be sexlinked cockerels. Both have chipmunk stripes. They're Oakley's little half siblings.

 

[Cloverr39]

I have pictures!!

2 golden colored sexlinked cockerels. First gen brahma x silkie cross (Zombie's). One has 5 toes, one has 4.

3 silvery colored dark skinned chicks. Oakley x silkie roo. The lighter one is really interesting to me. I haven’t had one with that color yet.

5 white chicks. Mostly Oakley x silkie roo, but one is brahma x silkie roo. One with the light skin seems to have darker skin now, but it's still more yellowish and not black.

The last egg (Oakley's) has pipped.

 

[Cloverr39]

Their wings are starting to come in and it's very fun to see how each chick's wings look. I was worried that if any would be silked the pattern would get lost in all the fluff. Well, we will get to see if that happens because two are silked.

Some more good news is that now I have 2 broody hens which means that solves the problem of where to house these chicks. I already have a broody with chicks and a dog crate with 5 week olds. It's quite fitting too cause one of them is Oakley herself. I won't hatch any more chicks though, cause I already have about 30 in total I have to raise this year. But I can give Oakley her 11 chicks and give the other broody my 10 silkie chicks.

Now here are some photos of the wings. First two are the light skinned sexlinked cockerels, next is the lighter striped chick, then the two darker striped ones that are silked. I didn't take any photos of the white ones cause they all just look white.

 

[Cloverr39]

I have 3 things I would like to talk/ask about.

1. Wing sexing. I've noticed that the two sexlinked cockerels have very different wings from the others. Their wings are short, with primary feathers being a bit longer. The others have bigger, even wings. Being able to sex them by wings would be very useful. I'm aware this is something only certain breeds/crosses have and has to be bred for, so I don't know where it would've come from in these chicks, considering neither silkies or brahmas can be wing sexed. If it does turn out to work then would it be possible to keep this trait in the breed?

2. Vulture hawks. I've recently found out what these are. They seem to be fault in a lot of breeds. I find them to be really pretty though. Zombie, the mother of Oakley, has vulture hawks, so I hope they'll appear in this breed as well.

3. Penciling on roosters. I have seen lacing on roosters, but not penciling. Think of the dark brahma for example. Hens are pencilled while roosters have a plain black chest. That makes me wonder if there will be a difference in hens and roosters in these chicks. Could feather color be a way to determine their gender once they start to feather out? Can roosters be pencilled at all?

 

[Cloverr39]

2. Vulture hocks. I've recently found out what these are. They seem to be fault in a lot of breeds. I find them to be really pretty though. Zombie, the mother of Oakley, has vulture hocks, so I hope they'll appear in this breed as well.

So turns out my silkie rooster has vulture hocks (even though he shouldn't). I checked Oakley and she doesn't have them. I can see Ollie definitely has vulture hocks and judging by the photos I took of Ollie every week it looks like they appeared at 3 weeks, so soon I'll see which will have them and wich chicks won't.
(Also praying my silkie chicks haven't inherited them).

 

[Obsessed With Silkies]

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[Chickenosauurs_RexNo54]

I have 3 things I would like to talk/ask about.

1. Wing sexing. I've noticed that the two sexlinked cockerels have very different wings from the others. Their wings are short, with primary feathers being a bit longer. The others have bigger, even wings. Being able to sex them by wings would be very useful. I'm aware this is something only certain breeds/crosses have and has to be bred for, so I don't know where it would've come from in these chicks, considering neither silkies or brahmas can be wing sexed. If it does turn out to work then would it be possible to keep this trait in the breed?

2. Vulture hawks. I've recently found out what these are. They seem to be fault in a lot of breeds. I find them to be really pretty though. Zombie, the mother of Oakley, has vulture hawks, so I hope they'll appear in this breed as well.

3. Penciling on roosters. I have seen lacing on roosters, but not penciling. Think of the dark brahma for example. Hens are pencilled while roosters have a plain black chest. That makes me wonder if there will be a difference in hens and roosters in these chicks. Could feather color be a way to determine their gender once they start to feather out? Can roosters be pencilled at all?

I agree with you that vulture hocks are quite attractive. I do not think it is possible that roosters can be pencilled. All examples of pencilled breeds show only the female being pencilled, while the males have a solid colored back and chest. I think the only breeds with pencilled males are Campines, and some of their close relatives. I think they are pencilled because they are hen-feathered breeds.