I need help on breeding

[Sonoran Silkies]

With a white silkie, you have no idea what colour the offspring will be. The white hides all other colours and patterns that are genetically present. Is there a reason you want to use a silkie? My understanding from your earlier post is that you want a feather-footed silver laced polish? Now I am seeing that you also want to go from large fowl to bantam.

Can you give a complete description of your goal?

 

[hdowden]

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)?

yes sultans do come in black but i have yet been able to find any :-(

 

[hdowden]

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

i would get both bantam polish and bantam sultans for this if thats what you want is a bantam as both breeds come in bantam form.

 

[Silkie Chicken]

what i want is a silver laced poleathered feet and i want it to be a bantam how can i do that and with what colors.

 

[hdowden]

your wanting to get just the feathered feet and keep the polish look correct? nothing else

if this is the case i would use bantam polish and bantam sultans. the sultans would be white unless your lucky enough to find black bantam sultans (and if you do please let me know). i would also have 2-3 breeding pens.

 

[hdowden]

i have both of these breeds but they wont start laying till the fall if not next year. if they were laying i would put them together for ya (yes both are bantams)

 

[Silkie Chicken]

thanks if you would please do that for me i would be so happy and if you could maybe just send me like 10 eggs i would be so happy and maybe if u would send me some sultan eggs i would be happy to and are yours bearded and if you could send me some how can we do it through mail if you would do this if you want i will pay you just let me know if you get the right eggs and i live in west Virginia

 

[hdowden]

it probably wont be until next year though and i always do at least 2-3 hatches before i even think about offering eggs up to get an idea of what the chicks look like.

yes my silver laced polish is bearded and of course the sultans are lol. i would be willing to once they start laying and i hatch a good 3-4 dozen as i collect for 2-3 days before incubating. im sure there is someone out there with this type of mix if you can find them. just keep searching and when they start laying and i hatch some i out i will let you know. with the first generation the chicks will probably be all black (given that the sultans arent dominate white) so i would have to back breed them to get the lacing (ei: mother to a son or daughter to a father) and the 5 toes would have to be worked on since polish dont have 5 toes. just a few things to think about with this project so it may take 3+ years to get true polish type after breeding and culling to get the final look you want just right. i would be willing to send you 1st or 2nd generations if you are still interested.

 

[Silkie Chicken]

ok thanks so much let me know