Just hatched Silkies - buff/black mottled and black with white tips!

[wilsonloria]

These Silkie babies just hatched today. I have one buff hen, one black rooster, one white rooster, one white adolescent rooster, 3 babies and 7 adult white hens. I'm guessing the mottled is a combination buff hen and black rooster and the black with white tips is the black rooster and a white hen? I never knew the colors could come out this way. Adorable!!!!

 

[keesmom]

Breeding to white can result in just about anything. White is an off switch, preventing colors and patterns from showing up in a bird. Your whites could carry all sorts of hidden genes. The brown one in the back looks similar to a partridge, and probably is if it has stripes on the back.

 

[sjrag14]

Aww how sweet we just had one hatch 2 days ago

 

[wilsonloria]

That is so interesting! I just looked up partridge Silkies, they are beautiful!!

 

[Bryam]

Can you post more pictures of the black and buff chick?

I have a black hen that breed with a buff cock and I am debating on incubating their eggs. Are they a nice color?

Thanks!

 

[wilsonloria]

Better pics

 

[Bryam]

Is the chick all black? Hard to tell in the photo.

 

[wilsonloria]

It is black with white tips. The first photo was freshly hatched. Much blacker now.

 

[Bryam]

Oh, I was talking about the chick that's parents are a buff and a solid black. What colour is it?

 

[wilsonloria]

It's got black, brown, buff and a little white.