Mottled Silkie with Blue/Green eggs Project.

[luckiestck1]

Hi
I've been thinking of doing a mottled silkie project but I also what them to lay Blue/Green eggs as well. I have a Mottled Pekin Hen I bought and a black silkie rooster. i'm just waiting for my pekin to start laying eggs so I can start hatching. I Know that the F1 gen will be solid in colour & will carry the mottling gene so I will have to cross the F1's together to get a mottled silkie in the F2 gen. I also plan to cross a araucana with a black silkie girl I have to get a black silkie that lay coloured eggs. I then plan to cross the coloured egg silkie line into my mottled silkies later down the line to get the coloured egg gene in them. I'm going to start with a black base mottle silkie first then maybe try other colours down the line like a mottled buff silkie. All the mottled silkie lines will lay coloured eggs like in the pic attached. The mottled hen I have is similar the hen in pic. Not my pics. Maybe even do a showgirl version way down the line. Thoughts on the project? Would love helpful and positive comments and thoughts.

 

[nicalandia]

Start with Mottled Silkies first, then add the blue egg shell gene from Ameraucana, no need for Cochin blood in them.

 

[luckiestck1]

I was thinking of breeding the f1s together to get mottles in the f2 gen?
I should get 25% mottles i think?

 

[16Chickens Keeper]

Watching Thread

 

[nicalandia]

Or better yet, Mottled Silkie x Mottled Ameraucana from the Mottled Ameraucana project https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/project-mottled-ameraucana-eggs.854466/

 

[luckiestck1]

I was thinking i should then breed the f2s mottles together. Or breed the f2s back to there f1 parents. what percentage of mottles should i get from these pairings?

 

[Cyprus]

Orrrrr you could just.... you know... use stock from an already existing line of blue egg laying Silkies....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/silkies-that-lay-blue-eggs.1255052/#post-20137987

 

[Cyprus]

I was thinking i should then breed the f2s mottles together. Or breed the f2s back to there f1 parents. what percentage of mottles should i get from these pairings?

Need more detail. Who are the parents in F1? F1 is first gen. F0 is parent stock.

 

[luckiestck1]

No blue egg silkies around here.
F0 - Silkie Male and Mottled Pekin Hen
F1 - Silkie Cross (Carrier of Mottling)
F2 - Mottled Silkie

 

[Cyprus]

No blue egg silkies around here.
F0 - Silkie Male and Mottled Pekin Hen
F1 - Silkie Cross (Carrier of Mottling)
F2 - Mottled Silkie

Uh, you can order the eggs to be shipped