I need help on breeding

[Silkie Chicken]

i am wanting to breed a silkie with a silver laced polish i am new to doing all this stuff so how can i make this possible for them to breed and should i have a SLP roo breed with silkie hen or silkie roo breed with SLP hen how can i do this and can i even and will it be a pretty bird Help i don't know how that works with breeding dif. breed if you know how i can do this tell me

 

[groundpecker]

the simple way is to introduce a rooster to a hen. I do not know why you would want to crossbreed these two breeds? I would say a silkie rooster over the polish hen.

 

[Silkie Chicken]

what do you think the chick would look like i am trying to get a silver laced polish to have feathered feet and how can i do this

 

[groundpecker]

That would go into genetics and many years to perfect what you want. A few others with more experience with crossing for certain traits should answer this question.

 

[Silkie Chicken]

ok do you know who i can ask

 

[RhodeRunner]

Silkie crosses are very goofy looking birds, and there is a great deal of variations in the outcome of chicks due to the number of incompletely dominate genes at play. However, I'm not sure a using a Silkie would be in your best interest.

Feather type- Silkies have hookless feathers (h), which is a recessive feather type. In your first generation all the chicks will have regular smooth feathers like the Polish. However, in the future generations the hookless feather type will haunt you for the rest of time!

Feathered Feet and Crests- are incompletely dominate. In the first generation usually 50-75% chicks will have feathered feet, all should have crests since you are crossing two crested breeds. Over the generations you will need to cull all non-feather footed chicks right as they hatch, and you will have to cull less birds for this as the years pass.

Five toes and black skin- since you are crossing in Silkies, beware that all of your chicks will have darker skin, and quite a few will have five toes.

F1 Generation (Silkie X SL Polish) = Smooth Feather type, 100% Solid Black Birds (if Silkie is recessive white) or 100% uniwhite birds (if Silkie is dominate white) Chicks will have crests, and may have five toes, beards, feathered legs, and neat display of comb types.

I would suggest the following breeds instead of a Silkie- Silver Laced Cochin or Sultan.

 

[Silkie Chicken]

ok thanks for your help why will i have to cull some

 

[hdowden]

i would choose a different feather legged chicken such as a sultan but at they only come in white. i would try to stay away from white but to me a sultan to a polish would seem easier if the white wasnt a dominate white.

my reason for a sultan/polish: both have crest, both have beards, body is some what similar from pics i have seen, sultans have the feathered legs, they have the same type if comb (if i remember right), and for the most part the only things i think you would have to work on getting are: getting rid of the 5 toes and getting back to polish type

reason for culling the chicks: you want to keep any chicks with the traits you are breeding for by doing so you will make progress in those traits, if you keep those with traits you dont want you will hold your project back (someone else can explain better than me)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I agree that a sultan would be a much better choice if you are merely trying to breed in feathered feet. And they do come in black. One question for the OP, are you planning to use bantam or large fowl polish, and what outcome are you looking for (bantam or large)?

 

[Silkie Chicken]

i am using a silver laced polish large fowl but my white silkie is a bantam and if i breed it will be solid black. i am wanting the baby to be a bantam