My chocolate silkie project

[luckiestck1]

i've thought about trying to breed silkies that lay blue blues. i think it may be fun

 

[Slothinc]

i've thought about trying to breed silkies that lay blue blues. i think it may be fun

I’m casually working on that project right now! It’s proving more difficult than I thought though But it is a lot of fun!!

 

[luckiestck1]

I’m casually working on that project right now! It’s proving more difficult than I thought though But it is a lot of fun!!

hows it going, any colored eggs yet?

 

[Slothinc]

hows it going, any colored eggs yet?

Actually, I do have one silkie pullet that is laying a green egg! I bought her from someone who had a pullet with the blue egg gene, and of the two girls that I hatched, one lays a regular pinkish egg and one lays greenish! So that will be helpful! And I also have some silkie crossed with bantam ameraucanas and the first generation pullet that has started laying has the most gorgeous teal blue egg. So I am hopefully going to continue to slowly work on this and see where I end up!!

Here are a couple of pics - it is really difficult to get the correct color to translate through the lens.

The picture of eggs in my hand outside has regular silkie, ameraucana bantam, the greenish laying silkie, and banty ameraucana/silkie. The ones in the egg carton are reg silkie, OE on left, silkie/ambanty top middle and greenish silkie egg on right, then the two in my hand has a regular bantam ameraucana in the back and the cross with silkie in the front.

 

[luckiestck1]

Actually, I do have one silkie pullet that is laying a green egg! I bought her from someone who had a pullet with the blue egg gene, and of the two girls that I hatched, one lays a regular pinkish egg and one lays greenish! So that will be helpful! And I also have some silkie crossed with bantam ameraucanas and the first generation pullet that has started laying has the most gorgeous teal blue egg. So I am hopefully going to continue to slowly work on this and see where I end up!!

Here are a couple of pics - it is really difficult to get the correct color to translate through the lens.

The picture of eggs in my hand outside has regular silkie, ameraucana bantam, the greenish laying silkie, and banty ameraucana/silkie. The ones in the egg carton are reg silkie, OE on left, silkie/ambanty top middle and greenish silkie egg on right, then the two in my hand has a regular bantam ameraucana in the back and the cross with silkie in the front.

They look great

 

[luckiestck1]

are the choc silkies laying eggs yet?

 

[luckiestck1]

How's to project going?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

How's to project going?

Its paused right now because Im moving in a few days and none of my birds are happy right now lol

 

[luckiestck1]

How did the move go?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

How did the move go?

Perfectly Well! all my birds survived it as well not one was stressed lol got 4 silkie eggs in my bator hoping for a chocolate cockerel sold off the three black pullets for $40
The three I sold

The roosters fluffy butt

and the two together

The chocolate hen was somewhere else but I have a trio left