Mottled Silkies?...Calling out for Silkie Experts.

[onthespot]

Not neccessarily "improve" by inbreeding. Instead use the word "intensify" when you are inbreeding. Good or bad, it will set a trait and make it harder to breed out.

 

[onthespot]

I have a fair sized flock of mottled pullets and an extra black silkie roo, and it would take me about ten seconds to set up a breeding pen of silkie roo over a dozen pullets, but the problem is they are all split to mille fleur, so you could get all kinds of crazy colors. F1 would all be split ot silkie, and split to mottling, and half of them would also carry various red based genes, and possible columbian, whatever gene causes mille fleur instead of mottling.

 

[Teresaann24]

So inbreeding would maybe set bad traits you wouldn't want.

So should it go like this...

mottled cochin + black silkie= mixed OS

(Pick best OS with best silkie type + unrelated black silkies=F1 OS or would this be an F2 OS? and then breed on Ect...Os to unrelated black silkie? (Picking the best type silkie's to breed back to the black silkies)

Or

Mottled cochin + Black silkie=Mixed Os (making two sets of parents giving two different OS and breeding the F1 OS together ones that carry the best silkie traits?)

But wouldn't the that breeding give you less of a chance of getting silkied feathering?

 

[onthespot]

No matter how close or loose you breed, you will produce a lot of birds not useful to your breeding program.

I would take F1's that were hopefully not full siblings, and cross them on each other, and select out only mottled offspring, and cross them back on the best black silkies available to you. Lather, rinse repeat.

 

[cochin123]

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[Teresaann24]

great so now I have a start I will start by breeding the OS from the mottled silkie crosses (Unrelated OS) to each other and select the best type to breed back to black silkies.

 

[onthespot]

Sounds great! Your key to getting to good type fastest, is to always invest in the BEST black silkies you can to cross back on. Select for deep black down, very blue ear lobes, and very good toe spacing, big topknots.

 

[phasianidae]

Here would be a good way: Mottled Cochin x BBS Silkie, breed the offspring together and you would get 6.25%(or 2 out of 32) silkied and mottled birds. Then take the silkied and mottled F2 and breed them to BBS Silkies to get the F3, Breed the F3 together and you would get 25% mottled birds and so on. As far as inbreeding, you would only need to use one Silkie and one Mottled Cochin in the first cross because you would only have to make one sibling mating before crossing in new Silkies. Make sense?

 

[PolishMan89]

Nice mottle silkie hen !!!

 

[Teresaann24]

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I have some nice blacks but my roo is not the best he has some gold in his neck.

Here is one of my hens I wanna use.

and maybe this beardless girl (Not the other she has some gold on her neck as well.