Mille fleur silkie project

[Chikyboy]

I LOVE sikies, and I want to add some new varieties to them. Some of them will be really hard, and color patterns on silkies don't really look good, such as lacing, due to there feather type. But I still want to make them anyway. So if I understand correctly, you need at least 3 color varieties to make a mille fleur chicken. Mottled, columbian, and partridge. These colors are all existent in silkies, one is fairly common (partridge), one is rare (columbian), and one that is rare and still a project (mottled). I am not sure what breeding order to do this in, but I think mille fleur silkies would be cool! @MysteryChicken

 

[MysteryChicken]

I LOVE sikies, and I want to add some new varieties to them. Some of them will be really hard, and color patterns on silkies don't really look good, such as lacing, due to there feather type. But I still want to make them anyway. So if I understand correctly, you need at least 3 color varieties to make a mille fleur chicken. Mottled, columbian, and partridge. These colors are all existent in silkies, one is fairly common (partridge), one is rare (columbian), and one that is rare and still a project (mottled). I am not sure what breeding order to do this in, but I think mille fleur silkies would be cool! @MysteryChicken

You can cheat by using Mille Fleur D'uccles. They're Gold, Columbian Mottled.

You can experiment using Buff, Black, or Dominant white Silkies, & breeding them to the D'uccles.

Here's a Generation 1, Porcelain D'uccle X White Silkie hen. My whites are split for lavender.

Just remember mottling is recessive, it won't show in the first generation.

 

[Chikyboy]

You can cheat by using Mille Fleur D'uccles. They're Gold, Columbian Mottled.

You can experiment using Buff, Black, or Dominant white Silkies, & breeding them to the D'uccles.

Here's a Generation 1, Porcelain D'uccle X White Silkie hen. My whites are split for lavender.
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Just remember mottling is recessive, it won't show in the first generation.

Yes, I know mottling is recessive, and pretty girls!

 

[Silkie Princess]

Why are you starting project threads if it isn’t possible for you to actually breed them?

Also I've been working on this project since june So It’s not that original

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...booted-bantamsxsilkies.1494022/#post-24921788

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yes, I know mottling is recessive, and pretty girls!

Okay.

Thanks, I only have one.

 

[Chikyboy]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...booted-bantamsxsilkies.1494022/#post-24921788

Oh ya, I saw that a few days ago. If I remember correctly, you were trying to make silkied sableboots. I want these to be pure silkies, though I still may cross out of the breed

 

[Silkie Princess]

Oh ya, I saw that a few days ago. If I remember correctly, you were trying to make silkied sableboots. I want these to be pure silkies, though I still may cross out of the breed

Okay. It’s named Millie fleur Silkie too (made that up a couple of months ago). I guess I wrote it in a confusing way

 

[ChickenLeg]

I saw this ladys page years ago, she made microsilkies, silkied sermas, but got the most recognition for her calico silkies. She stopped breeding them but I thought is was a cool project

https://m.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1097723890267962.1073741847.908716215835398&type=3

 

[Chikyboy]

I saw this lady years ago, she made microsilkies, silkied sermas, but got the most recognition for her calico silkies. She stopped breeding them but I thought is was a cool project

https://m.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1097723890267962.1073741847.908716215835398&type=3

Those are beautiful!

 

[Silverwulfess]

Look up Lauren Taylor chickens on Facebook. She’s been doing this project for the past 8 years. I’m starting it up in NZ, crossing buff or partridge Silkies to Mille fleur Pekin Bantams and breeding it in that way.