Mille Fleur Silkie?

[cubakid]

How can a silkie have mottling with their feathers?

 

[gumbii]

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How about some barred columbian(Delaware) ?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7576_dscn2954.jpg

OMG how do the hens look like...?

 

[swheat]

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Like this one ?? This is not my bird, but I believe the owner is a BYC member, someone here may know her.

 

[swheat]

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How about some barred columbian(Delaware) ?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7576_dscn2954.jpg

OMG how do the hens look like...?

I will have get back with you on that one, but I am working on it...I only hatched out roos but I have them with some lady friends to make more Columbian and Barred Columbians.

Steve

 

[soap&eggs]

i recently lost my porc. mille crossed w/ white silkie hen..she was approx. 9 yrs old...even tho her father was porclean and mother white, she turned out golden with black trim..heavy vulture hocks,&leg&foot feathering, sort of a tophat... smooth feathers.,blackish skin & blue ears. i loved her but just considered her a mutt..excellent broody hen. i still have one 5-7 yr old daughter of hers,almost identical to mother,but more black trimmings..she is smaller size then her mother, father i think maybe was a white bantie cochin ?? she also is broody often but almost always leaves nest on day 18... once in a while i would hatch both of these hens eggs..if it was a cockeral chick feathering was always red tone..pullet were generally a light golden color. seeing how 2 different roos were involved original was porecline ,second white..original mother was white would think chicks would be white coloring..but hasnt been. i dont know enough of gentics to understand coloring reasoning for this.

 

[chickendales]

soap&eggs :

i recently lost my porc. mille crossed w/ white silkie hen..she was approx. 9 yrs old...even tho her father was porclean and mother white, she turned out golden with black trim..heavy vulture hocks,&leg&foot feathering, sort of a tophat... smooth feathers.,blackish skin & blue ears. i loved her but just considered her a mutt..excellent broody hen. i still have one 5-7 yr old daughter of hers,almost identical to mother,but more black trimmings..she is smaller size then her mother, father i think maybe was a white bantie cochin ?? she also is broody often but almost always leaves nest on day 18... once in a while i would hatch both of these hens eggs..if it was a cockeral chick feathering was always red tone..pullet were generally a light golden color. seeing how 2 different roos were involved original was porecline ,second white..original mother was white would think chicks would be white coloring..but hasnt been. i dont know enough of gentics to understand coloring reasoning for this.

there lot that gose in to makeing porcleans​

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

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Silkies were only white in the beginning, but remember white hides other colors, so I believe that from the whites, new color mutations occured and gave us what we have.

Also we have all the colors needed to make these MF silkies, us breeders just haven't put our heads and birds together lol

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

soap&eggs :

i recently lost my porc. mille crossed w/ white silkie hen..she was approx. 9 yrs old...even tho her father was porclean and mother white, she turned out golden with black trim..heavy vulture hocks,&leg&foot feathering, sort of a tophat... smooth feathers.,blackish skin & blue ears. i loved her but just considered her a mutt..excellent broody hen. i still have one 5-7 yr old daughter of hers,almost identical to mother,but more black trimmings..she is smaller size then her mother, father i think maybe was a white bantie cochin ?? she also is broody often but almost always leaves nest on day 18... once in a while i would hatch both of these hens eggs..if it was a cockeral chick feathering was always red tone..pullet were generally a light golden color. seeing how 2 different roos were involved original was porecline ,second white..original mother was white would think chicks would be white coloring..but hasnt been. i dont know enough of gentics to understand coloring reasoning for this.

White is recessive, and if you hatch enough chicks, you could indeed get whites. Play with the breeding they had on the chicken calculator and you will find out the numbers t expect. With that much variety, I doubt the percentage would be significant.​

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Silkies were only white in the beginning, but remember white hides other colors, so I believe that from the whites, new color mutations occured and gave us what we have.

Also we have all the colors needed to make these MF silkies, us breeders just haven't put our heads and birds together lol

True, the whites had other genes present (all birds do), but colours were created by breeding to other breeds: predominantly cochin or polish, but other, less obvious breeds as well.

 

[Blue Ribbon Bantams]

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White is recessive, and if you hatch enough chicks, you could indeed get whites. Play with the breeding they had on the chicken calculator and you will find out the numbers t expect. With that much variety, I doubt the percentage would be significant.

Exactly

took the words right out of my mouth lol

P.s. Suze I emailed you