Is anyone working on a blue egg laying silkies project?

[RememberTheWay]

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Here are two of the cute frizzled laced satins that hatched out of blue eggs. (Sorry I said silkies above but these two are satin silkies) And there is a picture of a partridge silkie that hatched out of the same batch, so all 3 are from the same mom. So I’m not sure I would want to breed them together. And their dad doesn’t have the blue egg gene so I’m hoping that the girls inherited it from their mom. They are from Akers Farm in Florida.

Then I have 2 lavender ameraucana bantams that are about 6 weeks old (a pullet and a cockerel) and also the newly hatched black chick which is a cross of silkie and ameraucana bantam. They are from Norsk Farms in VA. I tried to get silkie EE eggs twice but it didn’t work out (the shipped eggs have been so beat up by usps this year, it has been awful!!!) I did get one chick though that is a cross between marans and silkied EE so she will lay an olive egg and could have babies with silkie feathers if bred to a silkie. But yeah because of usps it is going to be even more slow going than I originally thought!

I have a dream of having lavender silkies so if I need to start with the lav bantams that would work to fulfill two purposes - adding the lav gene and adding the blue egg gene. The blue eggs that they hatched out of aren’t super bright blue but maybe I could work on that further down the line.

I’d love to hear about your project when you start on it!!

Just so you are aware you can use the silver partridge frizzles in your program. They would turn out more like this once you are done breeding out all the other colors. These are Lavender Silver Ameraucana Bantams. They are not started from extended black though, they are on a silver duckwing (wild type) foundation with lavender bred in over that base. If you bred them to regular lavender, that more then likely are on black your first generation chicks will be a hodgepodge of all sorts of colors and heterozygous bases but you can move forward from there and reach true breeding with those birds.

I'm partial to this color and can't for the life of me figure out why on earth it never gained more traction I think they are gorgeous especially with those rosy pink breast feathers (which neither of these photos really clearly show )

 

[RememberTheWay]

Your idea of using a male silkie over females of the blue egg breeds is very smart, as I recently found out that fibro Roos over light skinned hens create sex linked offspring, with the females retaining the dark skin. So that is a great starting place in my opinion.

Also- apparently brown eyes are Sex-Linked as well so if you breed a brown eyed male to a none brown eyed female (like silkie roo to bantam Ameraucana) you will get only brown eyed pullets. Apparently brown eyes work similar to how the chocolate gene works with females being able to express it with one copy only even though it is technically a recessive gene. I just recently hatched out such a chick from a black split to lavender rooster over a lavender split to mottling bantam Cochin hen. Said chick is lavender, with fibro skin and brown eyes. Also appears to have muffs and beard, five toes on both feet, feathered legs, and what looks to be a small crest forming. My roo is homozygous for crest so the chick will be crested just don't know yet how big it will be

Let me get some pictures and post of the chick though